You shall be my witnesses
“Go and make disciples of all nations, …….and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you……. I am with you always…” Mathew 28; 19 – 20
Following the very commandment of Jesus the apostles and disciples of Jesus went all over the world to announce the good news that God loves the world. The disciples, even today, driven by an insatiable passion for Jesus and a great zeal for his mission, radiates that love of the Father by renouncing their own family, friends and possessions; wander in the unexplored and hostile lands, witnessing the love they have experienced from their intimacy with God. Jesus is in our midst by empowering us to challenge the spirit of the world with that of His divine Spirit. The presence of Jesus is the power of the Church. Evidence of His presence is the existence of the Church even after centuries of his life death and resurrection.
World Mission Sunday, instituted in 1926 by Pope Pius XI at the request of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, calls us each year in the spirit of the Church’s unity and universality to a renewed commitment to everyone’s responsibility for the spreading of the Gospel message.
The Church still continues her missionary journey, by inviting every person to learn the ways of Christ. The “Saul” who became Paul could not stop anywhere, the ardour he got inflicted from the vision of Christ made him to walk tirelessly over miles and miles. There are thousand of missionaries like St. Paul, who are working among the poor and marginalized, by witnessing Jesus by their very life.
World Mission Sunday is a great chance to display our love and solidarity to our brothers and sisters who risk their lives in sharing the faith and human upliftment of the marginalized. In offering our prayers, we join with them who are present all over the world, in communion and compassion to support them in their great task of spreading the Good News. When we share the little mite of our income to help the missions, the Lord multiplies it into a greater quantity, to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.
FMSC, in various mission places in the Province “holy Family” in India, took active part in contributing for the Mission Sunday along with the parish communities. Sisters showcased all their talents and abilities in their creative presentation. Doormats, craft work in paper, room ornaments, vegetables from our kitchen garden, indoor and outdoor plants, holy Rosaries, holy pictures and sacred statues and many other…
Sustained by the collaboration of their Parish Priests, of the youth, of Legion of Mary group and religious sisters set up various stalls and collected a good amount of money.
We wish and pray that these celebrations should serve as a continuing commitment to build the Church as the Christian community where there is no barriers language, nation, culture, ethnicity or gender. We are all one human family and children of the same God our Father. We are all called to be missionaries every day.
