Loving care and special solicitude

Dear Sisters, I am beginning my service as Delegate of the General Minister for the Capuchin Sisters and the Institutes aggregated to our Order. With some of you I am already acquainted, but the majority I have not yet met. It is my wish to come to each of you with a warm and affectionate greeting at this Easter, that we might feel like true brothers and sisters.

I am content in the service entrusted to me and I hope to carry it out as did my brother predecessors...a special thanks to Br. Juan María Castro, who for eight years has accompanied you with a generous commitment and helped with formation.

I hope also to be able to incarnate and represent the relations that unite our Orders in the same charism. I entrust myself to your prayers and to the dedication of all of you.

In this first meeting, I want to tell you that I am Br. Leonardo, from Argentina, I am forty-four years old and I have been living in the General Curia of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Rome since November 2014. May it please God that we meet in the not so distant future.

In the name of all my brothers of the Order, I want, as much as is possible, to reflect in my own person the promise made by St. Francis to St. Clare and to her sisters: "I resolve and promise for myself and for my brothers always to have the same loving care and special solicitude for you as for them".