LETTER TO CLOISTERED ORDERS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 27, 1999 (VIS) - Made public yesterday afternoon was a letter from the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life and from the Central Committee for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, addressed to cloistered orders of religious. The letter invites them to pray "in order that all Christians and men and women of good will may participate in the spiritual fruits" of the Jubilee.

Taking into account the fact that cloistered religious orders, due to their internal rules, will not participate in the Jubilee pilgrimages, Cardinal Eduardo Martinez Somalo, Archbishop Piergiorgio Silvano Nesti, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray and Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, who signed the letter, write to tell them "we feel your commitment to the Jubilee mission."
"The result of the Holy Year," they continue, "is also and above all linked to your prayer and the spiritual communion of your lives with all those who, in this Holy Year, wish to convert and return to the house of the Father. In Rome, in the Holy Land, in the cathedrals and shrines, the pilgrims who seek to obtain the great gift of indulgence will feel themselves united to and supported by you in their itinerary of conversion."

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