My beloved sisters, I wish you a Happy Easter

The mystery of the death and resurrection of the Lord offers us, once again, the possibility
to rethink about the “pass” from death to life.

We feel challenged to abandon many internal heart attitudes, in order to conquer and assume new others. We are called to “celebrate”, to live in abundance. In this celebration we want to show our faith and taste in advance, from now on, the “fullness of life “. St. Paul reminds us that “But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep… , so too in Christ shall all be brought to life” (1 Cor. 15, 20.22). Is in this Easter where we wish to find the place for the memory and the hope. In the memory, the personal and community history receives the light for the road it is walking and impulse for a future of hope, keeping alive the trust in the fullness of life: “Jesus asks us for a better life than the one we have been living until now” (Let. MF672).

Dear sisters, Mother Francisca, like the disciples before finding Resurrected Christ, you must live the painful experience of being “at the bottom of the cross” and the “empty grave”.
In fact, the existence of the master ends up in the complete donation of himself in the cross, in the mystery of the passion and the death. This fact belongs to us. We experience, as the disciples, in the daily life, at work, in the tiredness, in the numerous occasions of self-sacrifice that interweave our lives, being at the bottom of the cross!!! We must not to let us suffocate by futile regrets, but instead to trust in His generous suffering for love, in his attempt to become closer to each one of us as a man “overwhelms by pains”. His sacrifice makes us to question and worry ourselves because it extends to our sick, exploit, oppressed, excluded brothers, who are always at the bottom of the cross.
Not only… when Peter, coming into the empty grave, perceived the absent of Jesus’ body, his inconsolable look appreciated every single detail creating a silent environment and asking so many interrogations (Jn 20, 6-7).

Dear sisters, we are the ones, with our doubtful faith, that together to Peter scrutinize the empty grave, the grave that invites us to have confidence while we grow in our commitment and intimacy with the Lord. It is an itinerary we should realize in the communion, and together like this, we might reach the fullness of life when we embrace each day, with the charisma that Mother Francisca let us. We are called to walk this road without delay, free of prejudices and fears to defeat the darkness of the doubt with the light of hope.

“Resurrected Christ, my full pleasure”
Dear sisters, we must follow the footsteps of mother Francisca, we should scrutinize the secrets of her heart, which is overflow of mercy, because for us the desire hour will arrive. We must always listen with hears open to the faith, we must look at each person with the eyes of a pure soul, we must get close to everyone touching them with the empty hands of poverty and we must walk every day with the naked feet of hope.
Resurrected Christ gives us the strength to discover, in the new birth of the Spirit, our roots of dedication and missionary, which are the secret of our community “youth”. These roots that can transform our existence into a continue service to the last that allow us spread in the society “the plentiful treasures of kindness and generosity” that God has trust in Mother Francisca.
It is from tiredness that joy is born, from confusion the growing, from the “death” the joy of each sisters’ life.

Receive you all a kindly and sincerely wish of peace.

Sr. Carmen Cimarolli
General Superior
Saint East