Lezhe (Fides Service) - "The context of your apostolic activity today is not very different from that of the early Church…you encounter in fact situations similar to those faced by Peter and Paul, Barnabas and Sila, Timothy and Tito. And yet those men, feeble and fearsome like us, became, thanks, to the Master of Nazareth, privileged witnesses of his life, a living memory of his passion, death and resurrection." The last event for Cardinal Sepe on his 8-12 November visit to the Church in Albania, was a meeting with the clergy and religious men and women of the diocese of Lezhe and Rreshen to whom he voiced gratitude and esteem and encouragement. "I am aware of your tireless pastoral ministry as well as the difficult conditions under which you carry out your missionary work" the Cardinal said, stressing the need in this context to have an "intense ascetic and formative reference to that source of life which is Christ himself". Cardinal Sepe urged the priests "to live with joy the reality of the priesthood", also to ensure vitality of the Christian communities: "The Faith of a Church is certainly a gift for which we must thank the Lord, but it is also a task, a patrimony and a heritage placed in our hands to be safeguarded, protected and strengthened". Lastly Cardinal Sepe asked three things of the clergy and religious: to work out a co-ordinated and effective plan for vocation pastoral, to involve the laity in missionary work, to eliminate with courage anything in culture not in keeping with the Gospel, "the fruit will be peace" he said. See address in Italian . SL (Fides Service 5/11/2002)