Dear Sisters,

Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, has signed his new Encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” on fraternity and social friendship in Assisi today, the 4th October, on the feast of his name-sake St. Francis.

In Pope’s own words, this encyclical is an exhortation “to recognize each other as brothers and sisters and to live accordingly in the common home that the Father entrusted to us.”

Inspired b St. Francis, the Pope calls us to “open fraternity … to recognizing and loving every person with a love without boarders … to encounter others in a way that is capable of overcoming all distance and every temptation to engage in disputes…”

The accompanying material offers you an introduction to this very timely exhortation. The text of the encyclical can be found on the official website of the Holy See (www.vatican.va). I would like to invite each of you to welcome Fratelli Tutti with open hearts and give it the importance it deserves.

May the message of this encyclical motivate each one of us toward that much desired fraternity and social friendship that our world needs today!

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