VATICAN CITY, DEC 2, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received a group of religious from the Little Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who are commemorating the 125th anniversary of their foundation and the 25th of the beatification of their foundress, Sister Anna Michelotti.
"You present yourselves to the world," said the Holy Father, "as 'Little Servants of the Heart of Jesus for the impoverished sick.' ... Feel 'little' in order to be able to experience within you the predilection of the divine Master. Cultivate in yourselves the spirit of 'service' to others. ... Go to the sick in a spirit of poverty, with only the riches of God to Whom you are consecrated, and bring them your maternal love."
May this anniversary, John Paul II continued, "make you ever more faithful to the spirit and aim of your foundress, may it be the moment for a greater and more penetrating spirit of faith that causes you to see the Lord's face in all the sick people you treat."
After recalling that the work has extended beyond the frontiers of Italy to Madagascar and Romania, the Pope expressed his desire that this expansion continue.
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