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      ROME, 20 (NE) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has recently published a book offering different meditations that will serve as guide for pilgrims to Rome throughout the Holy Year. "Images of Hope. A walk around the times and places of the Jubilee" is the title of the new publication.

      The book writthen by the Cardinal Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of faith offers Catholics from the whole world, but specially those who will peregrinate to Rome during the Great Jubilee of year 2000, diverse reflections on the places of peregrination and encounter with the Lord Jesus in the Eternal City.

      As Cardinal Ratzinger says, the book has its origin in his own experience of life in Rome and in the necessity to offer meditations on the most important periods of the liturgical year. "Slowly a path has developed along the different periods of the liturgical year and along the places of the Jubilee. They are proposed to the reader as a little guide to follow during this event of grace."