World Mission Sunday is tomorrow. Every parish in the world where the Church is present will be celebrating being part of a universal Church, praying and giving what they can so that Christ will be made better-known
Mission is encoded in the DNA of Christians. When Jesus commanded his followers to make disciples of all, it was a call for everyone who believes in his name to share the Good News. It wasn’t an isolated directive given to the disciples for a particular moment in time. But, although mission is at the heart of our faith, with so many demands on parish priests and leaders, mission sometimes appears to slip down the agenda and we need a prompt to reinvigorate it.
On this year’s World Mission Sunday, Pope Francis reminds us that faith is a precious gift, which opens
19 October 2013, The Tablet
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User Comments (3)
Excellent point: only by admitting the complexity of this issue can real dialogue - and real change, freely chosen, come about.
I so agree that this debate needs to happen in the ways you describe, particularly in the context of late abortion. There is a deep moral inconsistency about the silencing of a serious and informed debate about abortion, and the emotive rhetoric that sometimes surrounds issues of non-human life (which is not to deny our appalling treatment of animals in the food industry).
Thank you Father, for a message that needs to be heard.