Dear Brothers and Sisters in Consecrated Life,

I am writing to you as the Successor of Peter, to whom the Lord entrusted the task of confirming

his brothers and sisters in faith (cf. Lk 22:32). But I am also writing to you as a brother who, like

yourselves, is consecrated to God.

Together let us thank the Father, who called us to follow Jesus by fully embracing the Gospel and

serving the Church, and poured into our hearts the Holy Spirit, the source of our joy and our

witness to God’s love and mercy before the world.