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Tread the path of heroic fidelity to Christ
4. "Still today Christ urges his disciples: 'Give them some food yourselves' (Matthew 14:16).
"In his name, missionaries all over the world proclaim and witness to the Gospel. Through their efforts there resound once again the words of the Redeemer: 'I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never thirst' (John 6:35); they too become 'bread broken' for their brothers, some even to the point of sacrificing their lives.
"How many missionary martyrs in our day!
"May their example draw numerous young men and women to tread the path of heroic fidelity to Christ!
"The Church has need of men and women willing to consecrate themselves wholly to the great cause of the Gospel.
"World Mission Sunday is an opportune occasion to increase our awareness of the urgent necessity to participate in the evangelizing mission undertaken by the local Communities and many Church organizations, in particular the Pontifical Mission Societies and the Missionary Institutes. This mission requires the support not only of prayer and sacrifice, but also of concrete material offerings. I take this opportunity to recall once again the valuable service rendered by the Pontifical Mission Societies, and I ask you all to support them generously with spiritual and material cooperation.
"May the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, help us relive the experience of the Upper Room so that our ecclesial Communities may become authentically 'Catholic;' that is Communities where 'missionary spirituality' which is 'intimate communion with Christ' (Redemptoris Missio, 88), is closely related to 'eucharistic spirituality' of which the model is Mary, the 'woman of the Eucharist' (Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 53); Communities always open to the voice of the Spirit and to the needs of humanity, Communities where believers, missionaries in particular, do not hesitate to offer themselves as 'bread, broken for the life of the world.'
"To all I impart my Apostolic Blessing!"
From the Vatican, February 22, 2005, Feast of the Chair of Peter
IOANNES PAULUS II
from a message for World Mission Sunday (Oct. 23, 2005)
written by Pope John Paul II Feb. 22, 2005
released by the Vatican Friday
"In his name, missionaries all over the world proclaim and witness to the Gospel. Through their efforts there resound once again the words of the Redeemer: 'I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will never thirst' (John 6:35); they too become 'bread broken' for their brothers, some even to the point of sacrificing their lives.
"How many missionary martyrs in our day!
"May their example draw numerous young men and women to tread the path of heroic fidelity to Christ!
"The Church has need of men and women willing to consecrate themselves wholly to the great cause of the Gospel.
"World Mission Sunday is an opportune occasion to increase our awareness of the urgent necessity to participate in the evangelizing mission undertaken by the local Communities and many Church organizations, in particular the Pontifical Mission Societies and the Missionary Institutes. This mission requires the support not only of prayer and sacrifice, but also of concrete material offerings. I take this opportunity to recall once again the valuable service rendered by the Pontifical Mission Societies, and I ask you all to support them generously with spiritual and material cooperation.
"May the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, help us relive the experience of the Upper Room so that our ecclesial Communities may become authentically 'Catholic;' that is Communities where 'missionary spirituality' which is 'intimate communion with Christ' (Redemptoris Missio, 88), is closely related to 'eucharistic spirituality' of which the model is Mary, the 'woman of the Eucharist' (Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 53); Communities always open to the voice of the Spirit and to the needs of humanity, Communities where believers, missionaries in particular, do not hesitate to offer themselves as 'bread, broken for the life of the world.'
"To all I impart my Apostolic Blessing!"
From the Vatican, February 22, 2005, Feast of the Chair of Peter
IOANNES PAULUS II
from a message for World Mission Sunday (Oct. 23, 2005)
written by Pope John Paul II Feb. 22, 2005
released by the Vatican Friday
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