CELEBRATING, PUBLICISING AND SUPPORTING MISSIONARY ACTION

Mission Month in October is an opportunity for the Church to highlight the importance of missionary commitment on the part of all the baptized, as well as the various evangelization initiatives linked to it. World Mission Sunday (WMD) - established by Pope Pius XI in 1926 and entrusted to the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith - is the high point of the Month. Celebrated on the second-to-last Sunday in October, it is a special day of prayer and fundraising for the various initiatives supported by the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith.

Kit and Resources 

To this end, Mission foi has prepared its annual Guide (in French and English), which provides numerous resources that are especially useful for supporting facilitation of missionary work in dioceses, parishes and various groups across Canada. missionfoi.ca 

https://missionfoi.ca/mois-missionnaire/#kit-and-resources-2024 

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR WORLD MISSION DAY 2024 

 Go and invite everyone to the banquet (cf. Mt 22:9) 

The theme I have chosen for this year’s World Mission Day is taken from the Gospel parable of the wedding banquet (cf. Mt 22:1-14). After the guests refused his invitation, the king, the main character in the story, tells his servants: “Go therefore to the thoroughfares, and invite to the marriage feast as many as you find” (v. 9). Reflecting on this key passage in the context of the parable and of Jesus’ own life, we can discern several important aspects of evangelization. These appear particularly timely for all of us, as missionary disciples of Christ, during this final stage of the synodal journey that, in the words of its motto, “Communion, Participation, Mission”, seeks to refocus the Church on her primary task, which is the preaching of the Gospel in today’s world. 

https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/missions/documents/20240125-giornata-missionaria.html 

About Mission foi  

Mission foi (Pontifical Society of the Propagation of the Faith), founded in 1822, is one of four Pontifical Mission Societies in Canada. Its aim is to help the Church in its universal mission and meet its evangelization needs. Present in over 120 countries, it is the Vatican’s most important organization, supporting the missionary work of the world’s poorest churches. For more information, visit the missionfoi.ca website.  

For more details: https://missionfoi.ca/mois-missionnaire/