The Minister General has written a letter to the friars and faithful of the Parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Sliema. The letter has been sent on the occasion of the 125 anniversary of the inauguration of the church, the arrival of the statue of the Virgin Mary and the beginning of the pastoral work of the Franciscan friars in Sliema.

The Minister congratulated the friars for their Franciscan witness and prayed that their work in the Franciscan parish of Sliema and in the Maltese Franciscan Province might have a bright future.