Deacon-structing: What is World Mission Sunday?

Monday, October 18, 2021

Deacon Pedro

Deacon Pedro tells us all about the Pontifical Mission Societies and how World Mission Sunday got started.

What does it mean that we all have a missionary call?

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Salt + Light Media

This week on a special edition of the SLHOUR, we visit a meeting of national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Americas and the Caribbean, hosted by the Oeuvres Pontificales Missionnaires (OPM) French Canada, as they prepare for their upcoming continental meeting, the 4th Missionary Congress of America (9th of Latin America), […]

Those missionaries who work without making noise, and who give their lives…

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Salt + Light Media

Today is the 87th World Mission Sunday. After the Angelus, Pope Francis addressed the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s square with these words: Dear brothers and sisters, Today is World Mission Day. What is the mission of the Church? To spread throughout the world the flame of faith that Jesus has lighted in the world: […]

To Be a Missionary is…

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Deacon Pedro

What does it mean to be a missionary today? As we approach the end of the Year of Faith, we can say that to be a missionary is at the heart of the new evangelization, especially when we have a pope that is inviting us to go out to the peripheries! Today, as we celebrate […]

What does it mean that we all have a missionary call?

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Salt + Light Media

This week on a special edition of the SLHOUR, we visit a meeting of national directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) of the Americas and the Caribbean, hosted by the Oeuvres Pontificales Missionnaires (OPM) -French Canada, as they prepare for their upcoming continental meeting, the 4th Missionary Congress of America (9th of Latin America), […]

9-10am world-wide Holy Hour on Mission Sunday

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Deacon Pedro

I’m in the diocese of Gaspé, QC today for World Mission Sunday (29th Sunday in Ordinary Time), October 21, 2012. It is the day when we pray, not only for missionaries all over the world, but also that we can all get in touch with our missionary spirit. When I asked Baptistine Ralamboarison, Secretary General […]