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Pontifical Mission Rosary Group
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Support the Worldwide Church through prayer. Join the Pontifical Mission Rosary Group. All parishioners are invited to belong to a Mission Rosary Group, asking our Lady to guide us as we work to create an evangelizing celebration of our commitment to bring the Good News of God’s love to people everywhere in the world!
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"To wed the afflicted and the comfortable is our humble mission, our dedicated task, our abiding joy." -- Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen |
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MISSION Magazine
For six decades, MISSION has been telling the story of the Church in mission countries, proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, serving the poor, and showing how each of us, by baptism, is called to be part of that story... “to bring to each circumstance,” observed MISSION’s current editor, Monica Ann Yehle, “the hope-filled, life-giving Risen Lord and His love compassion.”
MISSION is published quarterly by the Propagation of the Faith. [Subscribe Now] / [download online edition] |
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A Story from Burkina Faso
When visiting Burkina Faso, I met Sr. Elvira Brown, a member of the Marianites of Holy Cross who has just arrived to help Bishop Kabore and Fr. Alphee (in photo) open a new parish. Recently, I asked about the conditions there because I know they depend so much on rain and while I was there, it had only rained twice.
Sister wrote: Our parish - Sainte Famille de Nazareth de Yalgo, was officially erected as a parish on Saturday January 14, and L'Abbe Clement Barnaba, who was with us at the Pacific Hotel, was installed as the Curie.
Bishop Kabore had told us to come in June as that is the start of the rainy season and it would be cooler. We came, but the rains didn't. The rainy season that should have been June - September didn't begin until the last days of August and ended very early in October and it rained maybe once a week during that time.
The farmers planted crops and they grew, but there was not enough rain so they did not produce enough to harvest. Most of the fields just dried up and never produced any crop. [read more]
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Society for the Propagation of the Faith
 In response to Christ’s call to “go and teach all nations”, the Society for the Propagation of the Faith supports the pastoral and evangelization programs of some 1100 missions in Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and remote areas of Latin America. This most important work relies on the prayers and contributions of Catholics through a monthly calendar program and through direct mailing appeals. [read more]
World Mission Sunday, celebrated in prayer and through financial sacrifice on the third Sunday of October annually, reminds us that we are all called to be missionary. It is the day that Catholics throughout the world celebrate and unite with mission priests, religious and lay catechists, as well as all missionaries, especially those from our own diocese, who offer their lives to bring the Good News of Jesus to their people in witness and through service.
The Missionary Cooperation Plan enables missionary communities and dioceses to visit parishes in the Diocese so as to foster love for, and awareness of, the missionary work of the Church and to make appeals for financial assistance.
 Society of St. Peter Apostle
This Pontifical Mission Society supports mission vocations through the training of seminarians and Religious novices in the missions, as well as through support of seminaries world-wide. The primary focus is evangelization through education, and its efforts are supported through the contributions of clergy, religious and lay persons in the diocese, especially during the annual St Peter the Apostle summer appeal.
There is an average of 1,600-1,700 ordinations in the missions each year. [read more]
 The Missionary Union of Priests & Religious
This Pontifical Society seeks to increase awareness of the Church’s worldwide mission among all persons engaged in pastoral ministry in the Catholic Church. This spiritual apostolate addresses itself to those called to bring Catholics to a better understanding of their baptismal responsibility for the Church’s missionary work — to priests, Religious, seminarians, pastoral leaders and those engaged in catechesis and religious education.[read more]
Missionary Childhood Association
 More than 100 countries participate in this Pontifical Mission Society in order to bring the young of different cultures together. With its distinct mission of focusing entirely on children, and with its unique concept of children helping children, MCA serves the Church worldwide; in the U.S. with global awareness and prayer/incentive programs, and in poorer countries by providing spiritual formation and education programs, as well as nutrition and health development assistance. [read more]
Since the young should play an active role in making the message of Jesus known to others, HCA enables children to give children in poorer countries reason to believe in a better future. The teaching materials designed and provided by MCA (www.hcakids.org) are intended to develop a sense of kinship with children of all cultures. In so doing it is both hoped, and expected, that the next generation of adults will understand adequately the true meaning of a universal Church and the responsibility Christians of all ages have in going where the needs are greatest and providing for the poorest among us.
MCA is the official children’s charitable organization of our diocese.
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