Rome, Italy, Oct 13, 2013 / 06:03 am
Ten years after the canonization of Saint Daniel Comboni, the head of the Comboni Missionary Sisters has exhorted the congregation's members to deepen their focus on Christ as they pursue their founder's work.
Sister Luzia Premoli, the missionary sisters' general superior, in an Oct. 5 letter to the congregation, encouraged the sisters to continue to become "women of the Gospel, mothers and sisters of humanity in order to regenerate life and life in abundance."
"I am convinced that we live in a precious time, which invites us to revive our hope, a time in which our thirst for authenticity can be abundantly satisfied, if we allow ourselves to be guided by the
Risen Lord, by the holiness of our founder and father, by the words and gestures of Pope Francis."
St. Daniel Comboni, an Italian-born 19th century missionary, was the first bishop of Central Africa – what is now the Archdiocese of Khartoum. He founded the Comboni Missionaries in 1867, and the Comboni Missionary Sisters in 1872.