19 October. Sunday 29C Mission Sunday.  Being a missionary himself Fr Pius spoke strongly about the importance of this day.  “There are over 1000 mission dioceses around the world and they all have many mission parishes. Apart from that Pope Francis reminded us that we are all missionaries. We acknowledge that too through our October theme in this Jubilee year of Hope Pope Francis’ message for Mission Sunday 2025.   The  motto: “Missionaries of Hope Among all Peoples”.  

“It reminds individual Christians and the entire Church, the community of the baptized, of our fundamental vocation to be, in the footsteps of Christ, messengers and builders of hope. I trust that it will be for everyone a time of grace with the faithful God who has given us new birth in the risen Christ “to a living hope” (cf. 1 Pet 1:3-4). hrough his disciples, sent to all peoples and mystically accompanied by him, the Lord Jesus continues his ministry of hope for humanity. He still bends over all those who are poor, afflicted, despairing and oppressed, and pours “upon their wounds the balm of consolation and the wine of hope” Obedient to her Lord and Master, and in the same spirit of service, the Church, the community of Christ’s missionary disciples, prolongs that mission, offering her life for all in the midst of the nations. While facing persecutions, tribulations and difficulties, as well as her own imperfections and failures due to the weakness of her members, the Church is constantly impelled by the love of Christ to persevere, in union with him, on her missionary journey and to hear, like him and with him, the plea of suffering humanity and, indeed, the groaning of every creature that awaits definitive redemption. This is the Church that the Lord always and for ever calls to follow in his footsteps: “not a static Church, but a missionary Church that walks with her Lord through the streets of the world” (Homily at the Concluding Mass of the Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, 27 October 2024). Act and Pray for the needs of families and our calling to become true missionary disciples.