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World Mission Sunday
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Extraordinary Mission MonthChrist's Church on Mission in the World
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"The celebration of World Mission Day is also an occasion for reaffirming how prayer, reflection and the material help of your offerings are so many opportunities to participate actively in the mission of Jesus in his Church." ~ Pope Francis' Message on World Mission Sunday
"In 1926 Pope Pius XI instituted Mission Sunday for the whole Church with the first worldwide Mission Sunday collection taking place in October 1927. The Mission Sunday collection is always taken on the next to last Sunday during the month of October. That day is celebrated in all the local Churches as the feast of catholicity and universal solidarity so Christians the world over will recognize their common responsibility with regard to the evangelization of the world." ~ USCCB
The power of your gift:Amount
The Opportunity Created
$20
Assists with the renovation of a chapel in the Fiji Islands
$40
Provides support for a catechist in Perú
$100
Supports a Sister in Kenya serving among homeless children
$1,000
Provides a home, food, medical help and education for orphans in Thailand
$3,500
Helps support two girls' homes
in Sri Lanka
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A Missionary Life of Amazing Grace
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The Student, the Nun & the Amazon(Video, 30 min)
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Sr. Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN
Pope Francis has set October 2020 as an Extraordinary Missionary Month to foster greater awareness of “missio ad gentes” and to animate the missionary transformation of Church life and pastoral activity. He has asked each country to highlight a great missionary who shared their life for the love of the Gospel.
In the United States, Sister Dorothy Stang, SNDdeN, martyred in Brazil in 2005 because of her defense of Indigenous people and the Environment is our great missionary of the Gospel who died reciting, "Blessed are the peacemakers..." (Mt 5:9)
To learn more about her exemplary missionary life, please view the video at the left and visit this link to the website of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, her congregation ~
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