More Than a Collection: 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.
There are 200 country flags in the Narthex. Please take one home and place it somewhere that reminds you to pray for the missionaries and all the people who do not have Jesus in their lives.