We Must Bring Christ into the World
For the Extraordinary Month of Mission and Mission Sunday, ARCHBISHOP STEPHEN BRISLIN reflects on how the People of God can bring Christ to the world. Christ entrusted the Church to...
Category: Christian Mission
The Amazing Journeys of a Hermit-Missionary
Once he was a successful businessman; now he is a ‘hermit-missionary’ priest who loves to be on the road. Robert Duncan met Fr Mary Elias. In the...
The Amazon Basin: Mission in the Middle of Nowhere
Why is the Church having a Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region? Barbara Fraser looks at the challenges of missionaries working in a lawless region so...
Prayer for the Extraordinary Missionary Year 2019
Heavenly Father, when your only begotten Son Jesus Christ rose from the dead, he commissioned his followers to “go and make disciples of all nations” and you...
Pope Opens Missionary Month with Call to Share Joy, Hope, Talents
By Carol Glatz – God wants everyone to take a risk to share with others the gifts he has given to them – their life, talents and...
What Mission Month is About
Pope Francis has declared October 2019 an Extraordinary Mission Month. Fr Dumisani Vilakati explains why and what that means to us. The third Sunday in October is traditionally...
What the Mission Month Logo Means
The logo for the Extraordinary Missionary Month October 2019 shows a missionary cross whose traditional colours recall the five continents. The Symbols The cross welcomes the world...
October is The Extraordinary Missionary Month 2019!
In the decades following the ravages of the Napoleonic Wars, the Catholic Church developed a tremendous missionary dynamic and engaged in one of the most successful...
Italian Consul Visits Neocat Seminary
Italian consul Emanuele Pollio, visiting the Redemptoris Mater seminary of the Neocatechumenal Way in Rondebosch, Cape Town, said the seminary is important as it gives strength to new evangelisation....
Lessons Learned in Mission Land USA
Many years ago as a young man born and raised in Baltimore, I spent a very different week getting a taste of life in Appalachia.
Pope: Drop the ‘Phobia of the Poor’
People must make “a serious examination of conscience to understand whether we are really capable of listening to the poor,” the pope said in a message for World Day of the Poor
Why We Can’t be Silent to Cries of Poor
World Day of the Poor was first proposed in 2016 in Pope Francis’ apostolic letter for the Year of Mercy, Misericordia et misera, which calls on the faithful to “make a serious examination of conscience, to see if we are truly capable of hearing the cry of the poor”.
