translate English to French: My thoughts likewise turn to the Eastern Catholic Churches with the hope that also through the monastic life of both men and women — the flourishing of which is a grace to be constantly prayed for — they may help to bring about unity with the Orthodox Churches, through the dialogue of charity and the sharing of a common spirituality, itself the heritage of the undivided Church of the first millennium.In a special way, I entrust to the monasteries of contemplative life the spiritual ecumenism of prayer, conversion of heart, and charity.
Bien que toute l'Écriture Sainte soit « utile pour enseigner » (2 Tm 3,16) et « source pure et intarissable de vie spirituelle », les écrits du Nouveau Testament méritent une vénération particulière, surtout les Évangiles, qui sont « le cœur de toutes les Écritures ».