7. In the face of numerous, serious and new challenges which the Church encounters in the present culturally changing era, the experience of faith lived during the Jubilee impels us not to be afraid, but to put out into the deep, placing our hope in Christ and trusting in the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

While we accompany Our Holy Father with our prayer on his coming pilgrimage to Ukraine, we desire to confirm our fraternal union with all Eastern Churches.

24 May 2001, Solemnity of the Ascension.