The prolonged and loving contemplation of the Greatest Exemplar, who from the Cross poured out His Spirit - source and soul of mission - has revealed to us the boundless greatness of the Father's plan: to make Christ the heart of the world.

We have tried to penetrate into this plan of universal love, drawing light and warmth from the pre-conciliar and post-conciliar Docements of the Magisterium, from the missionary heart of our Mother Foundress and from our Rule of Life.

We rediscovered ourselves Church in a Church which by her very nature is fully missionary. We are involved as Christians in the same mission of Jesus who was sent by the Father to announce the Good News to the poor (Luke 4:18) and who carried out this mission in filial obedience through a total gift of his life.

Christ's command to the Apostles: "Go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation" (Mark 16:15) rings out within us like a fresh appeal to our responsibility as Baptised persons, entrusted with the grace of the Spirit who urges us to share it with those who have not yet received it, or who have refused it.

When we reflect on our Foundress's insights which have a touch of universality, it appears to us that the words of Jesus hold a particular charismatic efficacy, for her and therefore for us.

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