WHAT IS WORLD MISSION SUNDAY? (PART – 2)

WHAT IS WORLD MISSION SUNDAY? (PART – 2)
World mission Sunday is a Global Day of Prayer and Solidarity for the Missions. World Mission Sun
day is coordinated by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, one of the four Pontifical Mission
Societies. Its purpose is to sustain more than 1,124 mission territories or places where the Church is
young, often materially poor, and sometimes persecuted, but where the seed of the Gospel is being
planted and nourished. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith provides support for pastoral and
catechetical programs, church construction, healthcare, and education in mission territories. World
Mission Sunday is not just a second collection. It is the Church’s annual call to put the missions and
evangelization at the center of our life and parish communities. It reminds us that every Catholic is by
baptism, a missionary disciple, and that our own nation was once mission territory, sustained by the
very collection we now have the privilege to support. Let us respond together with each other and
with Pope Leo as Missionaries of Hope among the Peoples. God Bless!
Father Maria Joseph Kodiganti