text: On the interreligious front, Paul VI was deeply committed to the end of his life. We all remember how he made his own a sublime Upanisadic prayer during his trip to India. I remember an inspired elan he had at the 1975 Christmas sermon when he saw the religions of the world converge on the crib of Bethlehem: "And as I say this my voice trembles, not with uncertainty, but with joy, la mia voce trema, non d'incertezza, ma di gioia." In Evangelii nuntiandi, also in 1975, he wrote of nonchristian religions:
  
  "They are all impregnated with innumerable 'seeds of the Word' (Justin) and can constitute a true 'preparation for the Gospel,' to quote a felicitous term used by the Second Vatican Council and borrowed from Eusebius of Caesarea."