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The Missionary Church

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World Mission Sunday will be celebrated Oct. 22. It is the one Sunday of the year when the Mass is celebrated exclusively for missionary activity. Donations collected at worldwide Masses this Sunday go, in their entirety, to support churches, hospitals, schools and vocations where the Church is new, young or poor. World Mission Sunday offers Read More
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Enhancing Missionary Identity

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Every October, we as a Church celebrate World Mission Sunday. It is an opportunity to reflect on, and do what we can to support, the missions. I remember as a child being taught about the missions. In our Catholic school we saw photos of the missions and engaged in many projects to help the missions Read More

The Power of Encounter

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This year we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the conversion of St. Ignatius. It is curious that we neither commemorate the anniversary of his birth nor his death, profession, ordination or baptism. But this past May 20 we began a year-plus celebration of his encounter with Jesus Christ. This meeting would change Ignatius and the Read More
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A Road Map for Forming Missionary Disciples

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German author Father Romano Guardini depicted the transmission of faith with the image of a candle being lit from the flame of another candle. Christ came to ignite a fire on the earth (cf. Lk 12:49), and it is the greatest desire of every priest, catechist, parent and missionary disciple to set ablaze the hearts Read More