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Assembly "1 t is necessary that everyone in the Church should take an active share in a common effort for full reconciliation, so that in and between them all there may be reestablished that peace which is the 'nursing mother' " Pope Paul VI
Through a process that has been almost a year in the making the priests' councils of the country have indicated very clearly that reconciliation is both a persona) and a pastoral priority for them in their ministry. ..
Pope Paul VI has stated (Dec. 8, 1974) that "it is necessary that everyone in the Church-bishops, priests, Religions and lay people---should take an active share in a common effort for full reconciliation, so that in and between them ali there may be reestablished that peace which is 'the nursing mother of love and the begetter of unity.' " In reflecting upon the whole reality of reconciliation, we could face the temptation to be general and thus vague. To make certain that this possibility did not become a reality, the NFPC executive board invited councils to be active participants in a process to determine, from the many existing possibilities, five important areas in need of reconciliation. 115