that: The Church’s consciousness must go with universal openness, in order that all may be able to find in her ‘the unsearchable riches of Christ’ (Eph. 3:8) spoken of by the Apostle of the Gentiles. Such openness, organically joined with the awareness of her own nature and certainty of her own truth, of which Christ said, ‘The word which you hear is not mine but the Father’s who sent me’ (Jn. 14:24), is what gives the Church her apostolic or in other words her missionary dynamism professing and