1. At the end of the Consistory, we, who are Cardinals from all over the world, reconfirm our deep communion of faith and love with the Holy Father, the Successor of Peter.

To him goes our cordial gratitude, because, as he gathered us together in Consistory for the preparation of the Great Jubilee of the year 2000, so now in this new Consistory he has called us to reflect on the spiritual and pastoral actualization of the Jubilee grace and to make concrete the general programmatic orientations that are present in the precious letter Novo Millennio ineunte.
Thanksgiving for the graces of Christ-centred Jubilee leads to renewed contemplation of the Person of Christ