The "fraternity in mission" announces the resurrected Jesus in it words and witness. Faced by the virtual reality of relationships of the cybernetic world, the Franciscan communities live the relevance of their mission for the world in the fickleness and concrete closeness of person to person with the poor. They live this relevance in contextual sensibility and in universally articulated responsibility. Just as St. Paul sought the synagogues and the Areopago in order to begin his missionary preaching, the Franciscan fraternity seeks the poor and the modern Aeropagos to begin its mission. The universal articulation of the Franciscan mission, like its relevance to the world, requires that the "fraternity in mission" be an informed fraternity ­ not necessarily computerised - about the causes and the broadness of human suffering. We are "Friars Minor", but adults, responsible and capable of giving answers. The world of today, where technology is becoming evermore "easy" (light) and the possibility to communicate more "rapid" (fast), one dimension of the enculturation of the "fraternity in mission" points towards a structural easing of the Franciscan mission and non-bureaucratic speed in its solidarity. Conversion produces simplicity, today love demands immediacy and information. Conversion and love are the beginning of LIFE.

To the challenges of world reality, marked by the accumulation of wealth, the spirit of competition and exclusion, the "fraternity in mission" tries to respond by sharing its goods, the word and time and by the gratuitousness of its presence among the poor. "Hope will be at the heart of the evangelising mission of the Church, if it is capable of putting its word and attitude, its activity and authority, its experience and wisdom at the service of the defenceless. (...) Definitively, it is only in Christian hope that the project of the Kingdom can be built as the central utopia" . The Franciscan fraternity is sent on mission to recover the credibility of the utopia of the Kingdom in a post-utopia world. Concretely, the utopia of the Kingdom means re-constructing the world so that it will be a world for all (for the future generations also) and so that human faces may shine in the image of God.