VATICAN CITY, JUN 19, 2000 (VIS) - At midday today, the Pope received participants in the general chapter of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate-Fr. Kolbe, and expressed his desire that their work these days may "consolidate you in your commitment of consecration to God, that you may be leavening of wisdom and witnesses of hope in today's world."
The Pope recalled with joy that the sisters are present in Italy, Luxembourg, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, California and Poland "where, in order to keep alive the legacy of the martyr Maximilian Kolbe, you are completing work on a 'spiritual center' at Auschwitz that aims to offer a message of hope to all who visit to that place: symbol of the most terrible negations of human dignity perpetrated during the 20th century."
"With Franciscan zeal, spread the truth of the Gospel in the hearts and lives of the brothers and sisters that you meet in your daily ecclesial service. ... Your apostolate must derive from incessant prayer and from a communal life that represents a continuous search for God and His work in complex earthly reality."
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