‘My Dream: a Missionary Church’
“Dear brothers and sisters, I continue to dream of a completely
missionary Church, and a new era of missionary activity
among Christian communities,”
- World Mission Day message
World Mission Day — also known as World Mission Sunday — was established by Pope Pius XI in 1926. It is usually observed on the third Sunday of October and will be celebrated this year on Sunday, October. 23, 2022.
This year’s theme is “You shall be my witnesses” (Acts 1:8). The pope described Christ’s words in the Acts of the Apostles as “the heart of Jesus’ teaching to the disciples.”
In his message, Pope Francis emphasized that every member of the Church has a shared responsibility to witness to Christ. “Would that all of us in the Church were what we already are by virtue of baptism: prophets, witnesses, missionaries of the Lord, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to the ends of the earth!”
At Mass this Sunday, let us recommit ourselves to our common vocation through Baptism to be missionaries and evangelizers. To Pray, Participate in the Eucharist, and Go Forth to all and Witness to the Good News of Jesus Christ.
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