My beloved sisters, The tenderness of God’s love, received in Mother Francisca’s heart, has given the beginning of our Religious Family, that in this time of grace, celebrates its 125th year of presence and service in the Church and for the Church

Mother Francisca, accepting with availability the free love of Lord Christ under the example of our Seraphic Father San Francisco, she let herself be driven by this love, in the abandoned and in the confidence of the Providence, towards a charity mission.

With her, always present in our hearts, full of praise and gratitude, we had travelled a long and rich human, spiritual, charismatic road, in a style of simplicity and minority while doing “the Good”, without skimping on tiredness and difficulties.

Like her, we have looked to overcome the evil and live with an open, trusting, charitable heart, giving Christ our own lives; always paying attention to the society’s necessities, especially those of the poor ones.

In her, as free and responsible sisters, with courage and coherence we had received with generosity the mission that has been entrusted to us.

Together with her, we all feel involved in an action of love, not of a ‘blind’ love but a smart, authentic, not banal one, who knows how to go trough the wide spaces of fidelity, of perseverance and gratitude.

We feel sisters, with the commitment to do much more vivid and authentic the charismatic richness in our lives and in the lives of each one of our fraternities, so we can get stronger the absolute value of our personal and communitarian answer to the gift of consecration.
In freedom, we continue living the certainty that causes us the fascination for Jesus’ person and the beauty of giving ourselves totally as women for the cause of the Gospel.
In this year of grace, Mother Francisca helps us to keep our look focus on the Lord’s face so the search of the Divine Beauty holds us and moves us to take care constantly the deformed and wounded image of God that we find in the faces of the disfigured brothers by the hanger, disappointed with the human promises; in the faces of the kids rejected or abuses, tired faces of immigrants who were received without any dignity, old people’s faces who are in not human conditions of life, humiliated faces of those who feel their culture unappreciated, faces terrified by violence.

Dear sisters, Mother Francisca wishes that we continue living “according to the gifts received, putting them at the service of people, like administrators of the multiform grace of God” (1 Pe 4,10).
To do this, we feel invited to perform some of the initiatives that were proposed. Each circumscription has the possibility to choose and perform those who seem more proper, or they can think other ideas, according to the own possibilities, taking into account the demands from the parish and the mission of the own local and ecclesiastical plot.
Let’s pray so, in this year of grace, a smart love towards the brothers and sisters, allows us to penetrate in God’s heart, not trough a theoretical study, a group of notions and speeches, but trough a real and concrete relationship hold by the pray. Only abandoning ourselves in the Love we can be a gift of love! : “Try to avoid unpleasant times that you would not like to receive. Be together and united while you are doing Lord’s acts” (Letter M. F 233) .

Dear sisters, we are called to walk in the road of the Redeemed with feelings of kindness and trust. Our heart is always more fulfil of hope, because God gives us his light: “Love and you will feel that the Lord is close. Love and He will come to live in you” (San Agustin)
Moved by the strength of the Holy Spirit, we are called to irradiate the kindness in the places where we live, with gestures inspired in the obedience and unit. Do not expect that the others will convert themselves, but guided by the Love, we put Jesus in the centre of our heart, and so we can give Him the world’s heart.

Yes, sisters, with a saint and virtuous behaviour, the “good example” would not be absent among us and the testimony will be a great gift for the young people who desire to commit to love and serve God seriously.
United in the pray, we ask that come upon us and our fraternities the full knowledge of God’s will.
For all of you a fraternal hug.