Then through reflection on our shared life and action, we come to know the gift of internationality. It is a gift, born of our common experience of the way God works in the world, especially in its many cultures. Every culture is itself the gift of the Spirit to humanity. Our cultural heritage is our capacity to ask questions, to reflect with one another on our experience, and to reach an answer to our life's questions. It is the prism through which the light of God's wisdom is refracted in our way of life, the energy to ask new questions and to understand one another in surprising ways.
People naturally approach North-South dialogue from the perspective of their own particular culture.
That is why we must begin by paying attention to our own culture. Attentiveness to the way in which we are part of a group of people who live, think, feel, organize themselves, celebrate and share life helps us understand ourselves. Then, in common reflection with others we can discover how the mosaic of many cultures colorfully expresses the one gift of God's love poured out into every heart through the Spirit which has been given to us. But we do not receive this gift in a naive or primitive world. God's love is at work in a complex world in which science and technology are an integral part of our lives.