Leaving the central committee of the EoC for new tasks in the service of the Work of Mary and the Church, at the close of the conference for which she gave her spirit and inspiration, Geneviève Sanze confided, ‘I do not fear anymore that the economy of communion may get exhausted, because it has already become a culture: for these three hundred people who came here from all over the world, the economy of communion is now a way of life.’ The conference in Nairobi was so special that Maria Voce, who had opened it with her message, felt inspired to use the words of the Brazilians upon the first announcement in 1991, namely that in Nairobi a new bomb had exploded.
Lasciando la commissione centrale di EdC per nuovi incarichi a servizio dell’Opera di Maria e della Chiesa, alla chiusura del congresso di cui era stata l’anima e l’ispiratrice, Geneviève Sanze ci ha confidato: «Non temo più che l’economia di comunione si esaurisca, perché è ormai diventata cultura: per queste trecento persone giunte qui da tutto il mondo, l’economia di comunione è ormai un modo di vita».