In a video message, Pope Leo XIV has called on every Catholic parish to take part in World Mission Sunday this weekend. Source: Vatican News.
Pope Leo recalled how the generosity of World Mission Sunday enables and sustains the good work of missionaries worldwide, as he saw first-hand while serving in Peru.
World Mission Sunday is held every year on the second-to-last Sunday of October. This year, it takes place on October 19, with the theme of “Missionaries of Hope among the peoples”.
The video begins with the Pope recalling that on World Mission Sunday every year, the whole Church prays, united, particularly for missionaries and the fruitfulness of their apostolic labours.
“When I served as a missionary priest and Bishop in Peru, I saw first-hand how the faith, the prayer and the generosity shown on World Mission Sunday can transform entire communities,” Pope Leo said.
Hence, he gave all Catholic parishes some homework.
“I urge every Catholic parish in the world to take part in World Mission Sunday,” Pope Leo said.
“Your prayers, your support will help spread the Gospel, provide for pastoral and catechetical programs, help to build new churches, and care for the health and educational needs of our brothers and sisters in mission territories.
“This October 19th, as we reflect together on our baptismal call to be ‘missionaries of hope among the peoples’, let us commit ourselves anew to the sweet and joyful task of bringing Christ Jesus our Hope to the ends of the earth.”
Pope Leo concluded by thanking parishes worldwide for everything they do to help him to help missionaries throughout the world and imparting his Apostolic Blessing.
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Pope Leo XIV to every parish: ‘Take part in World Mission Sunday’ (By Deborah Castellano Lubov, Vatican News)
