Dear Brothers and Sisters,
May I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and healthy New Year. My prayer is that the Lord Jesus fills your life in the coming year with an abundance of blessings.
Let us begin again this New Year to be at peace and love in our daily lives and in our Franciscan family. We need each other. Saint Francis with the help of God made us family – like-minded people to be filled with joy and love for each other and to be forgiving.
In the year 1965 Pope Paul VI spoke at the United Nations to make an appeal for peace and the end to all forms of warfare. His words were to the whole world, “Let the weapons fall from your hands,” he pleaded. “You cannot love with weapons in your hands.”
In a world that brings many challenges let us work together for peace and live the Gospel life and reach out to all in compassion for the good of our fraternities and in our world.
We can apply the message of Blessed Pope Paul VI to our daily lives as Franciscans, through the prayer he gave us – MARY TEACH US LOVE
MARY TEACH US LOVE.
WE ASK YOU FOR LOVE, MARY, LOVE FOR CHRIST,
THE ONLY LOVE, THE HIGHEST LOVE, TOTAL LOVE,
GIVING LOVE, LOVE AND SACRIFICE FOR OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
HELP US TO LOVE IN THIS WAY.
OBTAIN FOR US, OH MARY, FAITH,
SUPERNATURAL FAITH, SIMPLE FAITH, FULL AND STRONG, SINCERE FAITH,
DERIVED FROM ITS TRUE SOURCE, THE WORD OF GOD, AND FROM ITS FLAWLESS CONDUIT,
THE MAGESTRIUM, ESTABLISHED AND GUARANTEED BY CHRIST, THE LIVING FAITH!
LOVE & PEACE
ROSIE
