On Mission Sunday the Global Church family gathers to support Mission.

Missio is the Pope’s chosen charity. The Charity is committed to bringing the Church together in compassion and communion.

The Message of Pope Francis for Mission Sunday at vatican.ie is:

We cannot remain silent about what we have seen and heard – (Acts 4:20)

Extracts
When we experience the power of God’s love, when we recognize his presence as a Father in our personal and community life, we cannot help but proclaim and share what we have seen and heard. 

Go to the crosses of the streets and all those you will find, call them…    No one is foreign, no one can feel foreign or far away from this love of compassion.

With Jesus we have seen, heard and touched… that things can be different… We were made for the fullness that is achieved only in love  (Enc. Brothers all,68).

The Book of the Acts of the Apostles teaches us to live the trials by clinging to Christ, to mature the “conviction that God can act in any circumstance, even in the midst of apparent failures”

The situation of the pandemic has highlighted and amplified the pain, loneliness, poverty and injustices that many people were already suffering from… This is why we hear the Word of life resounding in our communities and families, echoing in our hearts and saying to us: “He is not here, he has risen”(Lk 24:6);

 In this time of pandemic, faced with the temptation to mask and justify indifference and apathy in the name of healthy social distancing, the mission of compassion is capable of making the necessary distance a place of encounter… 

In the present context there is an urgent need for missionaries of hope…. As Christians we cannot keep the Lord for ourselves: the Church’s evangelizing mission expresses its integral and public value in the transformation of the world and in the custody of creation.

An invitation to each of us

• The theme for World Mission Sunday 2021 is an Invitation
• To be generous and joyful apostles of the gospel
• To make known what we have seen and heard. This is at the heart of the Church’s identity. 
• To go to he peripheries of the world and become messengers and instruments of compassion.

To live the mission is to venture to cultivate the same feelings as Christ Jesus and to believe with him that those next to me are also my brother and sister. May his love of compassion also awaken our hearts and make us all missionary disciples.

May Mary, the first missionary disciple, grow in all the baptized the desire to be salt and light in our lands (cf. Mt 5:13-14).  – Pope Francis

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