«We have entered a new millennium and the Church is wholly committed to the work of the new evangelization. May your contribution not lack this far-reaching missionary activity. Rigorous academic study combined with constant atttention to the liturgy and pastoral ministry are required of each of you. You, teachers and students, are asked to make the most of your artistic gifts, maintaining and furthering the study and practice of music and song in the forms and with the instruments privileged by the Second Vatican Council ».

      «The application of the Second Vatican Council's guidelines on the renewal of sacred music and liturgical song - especially in choirs, sacred music groups and scholae cantorum - today requires of pastors and faithful a sound cultural, spiritual, liturgical and musical formation. It also calls for profound reflection in order to define the criteria for creating and disseminating a high-quality repertoire which will enable musical expression to serve its purpose, "the glory of God and the sanctification of the faithful"».

      «I wish we too could consider this celebration as the beginning of a new march, which first of all must concern our ambrosian liturgy. Not only we have to celebrate it faithfully, but also understand and experience it spiritually and through its symbols, convey it to the new generations in a right and faithful way, improve it contemporaneously with inventiveness, so that it can express the vitality of our particular Church in the symphony of all liturgic forms belonging to the universal Church».