While "the delusion that one may work more effectively on their own is harmful", the Holy Father highlighted that "the difficulty of confrontation and cooperation" is "clear evidence that it is not the individuals but it is rather the Church that gives what the Lord destined to everyone in His provident goodness". Benedict XVI also spoke of the "irreversibility of the ecumenical choice" and the "inviolability of the inter-religious one": "I am anxious to highlight, on this occasion he said , how much they feed on the movement of ecclesial love. Such choices are but expressions of the same love, the only love that can quicken the steps of dialogue and open unhoped-for horizons". "As we implore the Lord he added that He may bring forward the day of the full unity of the Christians and the day, also much longed for, of the serene cohabitation of the religions, enlivened by a respectful mutuality, we plead Him to bless our efforts and to enlighten us, so that what we do will never diminish but actually improve the ecclesial community": "May He stated the Pope make us always careful, so that, steering clear of any sort of indifferentism, in practising love we will never elude the mission of the local Catholic community". (continued)
