65. We hope and pray that our own coming together may be a sign of hope for the coming together of this divided continent as a whole. We encourage our congregations and parishes from different parts of Europe to meet, to discuss, to pray together. As churches, we know that the community we may celebrate is not our own achievement. Our Lord Jesus Christ has broken down the walls of separation. As, in a deep sense, the Body of Christ is "enmity overcome", we plead that the ecumenical process in Europe will be a conciliatory process. In this expectation we are called to play our own role in our own societies and in Europe at large.

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