THE CHRISTIAN LIFE MOVEMENT HOLDS ITS FIRST PLENARY

VATICAN CITY, DEC 6, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received members of the Christian Life Movement, founded in Peru fourteen years ago, who are presently in Rome for their first plenary assembly. The movement has a presence in various American countries and incorporates other groups and associations who are committed to evangelization.

The Pope encouraged those present to prepare their hearts, at the threshold of the Jubilee, "to receive God's mercy and to promote a deep and coherent spirit of Christian life in your own communities and your apostolic activities."

"In the education of the young," he said, "ensure that the spirit of initiative be united with faithfulness to the Gospel, that culture be opened to a sense of transcendence and that poverty, in all its forms, may receive a ray of hope through charity and true solidarity. In this way you will be true craftsmen of reconciliation in today's world."

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