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Author: vatican.va
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English[en]
In willing obedience to the command of Christ who bade his disciples love one another, they declare that, with His help, they wish to leave in the hands of the God of mercy all that in the past has been opposed to this precept of charity, and that they make their own the mind of the Apostle which he expressed in these words: «Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus» (Phil.
Latin[la]
Praecepto igitur Christi Domini obtemperare cupientes, qui discipulis suis mandavit, ut se invicem diligerent, declarant se in sinu Dei miserentissimi, eiusdem ope, ea cuncta deponere, quae huic praecepto caritatis praeteritis temporibus sunt refragata, et ad mentem Apostoli se accommodare, qui dixit: «Quae quidem retro sunt obliviscens, ad ea vero, quae sunt priora, extendens meipsum, ad destinatum persequor, ad bravium supernae vccationis Dei in Christo Iesu» (Phil.