POPE WELCOMES CONGREGATION DEDICATED TO HOLY FACE OF CHRIST

VATICAN CITY, OCT 14, 1999 (VIS) - On the occasion of their fourth general chapter, the Benedictine Sisters of Reparation of the Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ were welcomed this morning by the Holy Father who commented "on the "abundant flowering of vocations" in their congregation because of their "generous dedication."

"Your religious family," he observed, "is marked by devotion to the Holy Face of Christ, in the spirit of 'reparation'. You adore the face of the Lord in the celebration of the Eucharist and in the tabernacle; you contemplate it, ... meditating on the mysteries of salvation in the prayerful silence of your hearts; you honor it in the most needy of our brothers and sisters, the ill and the poor, to whom you turn in your apostolate."

"May the face of Christ," the Pope concluded, "which you commit yourselves to make known, and to make seen in all who suffer in body and spirit, be the constant reference point of your spiritual life and your apostolate."

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