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It reflects on the Church’s unity as communion with Christ and its inclusive call for all peoples. The message highlights baptized vocation and mission, drawing strength from Christ’s Heart and the shared heritage of Cistercian authors and mystics. 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Everyone felt drawn by Jesus and more united to each other.  \nThis is the nature of the Church’s unity: the communion among us is the immediate consequence of communion with Christ. But the unity of the Church is not exclusive, because through it Christ draws to himself all people, all peoples. In fact, the Church is“a sign and instrument both of a very closely knit union with God and of the unity of the whole human race”(Lumen Gentium 1) .  \nThe Church is not such in some ideal way, but is such through us, through her members. The nature, vocation, and mission of the Church are the identity, the vocation, and the mission of each of the baptized. To be signs and instruments of the intimate union with God and of the unity of the whole human race is the fundamental vocation and mission of each of us. Our vocation asthe baptized is to serve the Church, or better: to be Church as a sign and instrument of communion with God and of fraternal communion with all.  \nThis coincides with the discipleship that Christ asks of every baptized person. When Jesus chose the twelve apostles he did so “so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach” (Mk 3:14), that is, so that they could cultivate an intimate friendship with Him and from there go out on mission to gather humanity into friendship with Christ.  \nAs Pope Francis recalls with force, passion, and compassion in the encyclical Dilexit nos,“on the human and divine love of the Heart of Jesus Christ,” the main thing is to cling to  \nthe Lord’s Heart in order to experience his ardent love for us and for all. The Heart of Christ draws us to himself and at the same time encourages us in the mission of every baptized person, which is to share with all the Wire of his love.  \nA great heritage  \nWhen I saw cited in the Pope’s encyclical so many of our Cistercian authors and holy mystics, like Bernard, William of St. -Thierry, Lutgard, Mechthild and Gertrude of Helfta, Wirst of all I felt pride, but then I asked myself: But do I live out, do we in the Order live out, this precious spiritual heritage? Do we live out this intense and deep friendship with the Lord? How does his Heart, which loves us inWinitely, transform our lives? Perhaps we read our fathers and mothers with intellectual and spiritual interest; but what do we make of their testimony and spirituality in our life, in living out our vocation?  \nOf course, the ideal of these saints is high, is sublime, is mystical. But this does not justify us, because these very authors, like the Pope does too, remind us that Christian mysticism is not an unreachable peak, but rather the acceptance of a friendship that Christ came to offer us by descending all the way to us in our fragile human condition. That is where the point is to let ourselves be loved by the Lord and to love him for this tenderness and mercy of his.  \nIn reality, our fathers and mothers in the faith and in our vocation remind us that, if we want to follow Jesus truly, we must focus on his love. Everything gushes forth from his pierced Heart, culmination of the redemptive Passion and of the revelation of the mystery of God. Even when risen, Jesus will begin to manifest himself by showing this wound and breathing forth onto the disciples the Holy Spirit who gives life to the Church, Bride of the Lord and Mother of the reborn human race of the children of God the Father (cf. 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