ANGELUS
POPE FRANCIS
Saint Peter's Square
Sunday, 4 September 2016
Sunday, 4 September 2016
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
As we prepare to conclude this celebration, I wish to
greet and to thank all of you who have participated.
First of all the Missionaries of Charity, who are
Mother Teresa’s spiritual family. May your holy Foundress always watch over
your path and help you to always be faithful to God, to the Church and to the
poor.
With grateful respect I greet the authorities present,
in particular those from countries most linked to the figure of the new Saint,
as well as the official Delegations and the numerous pilgrims who have come
from these countries for this happy occasion. May God bless your nations.
I affectionately greet all of you, dear volunteers and
people who carry out works of mercy. I entrust you to the protection of Mother
Teresa: may she teach you to contemplate and adore Jesus Crucified every day in
order to recognize him and serve him in our brothers in need. We ask this grace
also for all those who are united with us by means of the media, in all parts
of the world.
At this time I would like to draw attention to those
people who place themselves at the service of others in difficult and dangerous
environments. I am thinking especially of the many women religious who give
their lives without holding back. Let us pray especially for the Spanish
missionary nun, Sr Isabel, who was killed two days ago in the capital of Haiti,
a country so tried, for which I hope for an end to such violent acts and that
there will be greater security for all. Let us also remember other Sisters who
recently have suffered violence in other countries.
Let us do so by turning in prayer to the Virgin Mary,
Mother and Queen of all the saints.
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