Amid the bitter sorrows which daily surround Us, We will say with Saint Paul, "if . . . there is any comfort in Christ, any encouragement from charity, any fellowship in the Spirit, any feelings of mercy, fill up my joy by thinking alike, having the same charity, with one soul and one mind. Do nothing out of contentiousness or out of vainglory, but in humility let each one regard the others as his superiors, each one looking not to his own interests but to those of others.
In angustiis, quibus quotidie premimur, si qua est consolatio in Christo, si quid solatii ex vestra caritate Nobis affertur, si communio habetur spiritus et commiserationis, et Nos cum Apostolo Paulo dicemus (Philipp, n, 1-5), expletum reddite gaudium Nostrum concordia, identica caritate, unanimi affectu, humilitate debitaque affectione, non proprium commodu m cupientes, sed commune bonum, atque in cordibus vestris eosdem nutrientes sensus, quos fovebat Iesus Christus, Salvator noster.vatican.va vatican.va