Vatican City, Apr 10, 2018 / 08:57 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Speaking to nearly 600 Missionaries of Mercy on Tuesday, Pope Francis said that to be “collaborators of mercy” with the Lord, they must remember that they have been recipients of that mercy first.

“We must always start from this fixed point: God treated me with mercy,” the pope said April 10. “This is the key to becoming God’s collaborators. One experiences mercy and turns into [a] minister of mercy.”