World Mission Day VATICAN
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- evangelization
Celebration of World Mission Sunday is confirmed The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples confirms that World Mission Day is to celebrated this year universally on Sunday, October 18, with no change in the calendar.
A note from the Congregation states that "In response to some requests about the celebration of World Mission Day 2020, the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples confirms that it will be celebrated this year at the universal level on Sunday, October 18, without changes in the calendar. It goes on to say that in many dioceses preparation began some time ago and "the missionary zeal of the People of God remains pre-eminent.
A missionary faith
The faith, in fact, concludes the note, by its nature is missionary and "the celebration of World Mission Day serves to keep alive in all the faithful this essential dimension of the Christian faith". The Congregation, recalling "the sense of communion and co-responsibility of the bishops", emphasizes that the collection on that Day will benefit the Pontifical Mission Societies, "which work in a universal context for an equitable support of the Churches in mission territories".
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28 August 2020, 14:38
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