{"id":3934,"date":"2023-10-16T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:53:43","slug":"world-mission-day-giving-oneself-to-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.holyart.it\/com\/religious-items\/world-mission-day-giving-oneself-to-others\/","title":{"rendered":"World Mission Day: giving oneself to others"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 24 marks World Mission Day, which consecrates October as missionary month<\/h4>\n\n

World Mission Day<\/strong> celebrates the missionary activity of the universal Church and promotes the support of solidarity and support projects around the world. Thus, the driving force behind this occasion is solidarity<\/strong>, in all its forms and declinations, and involves catechists, seminaries that train new priests especially in areas of greatest poverty and degradation, and organizations that provide health and humanitarian support and relief for children and those most in need in the initiatives.<\/p>\n

This day only reconfirms October missionary month.<\/strong> The missionary consciousness of the Church has deep roots. We think of St. Paul of Tarsus<\/strong><\/a>, who was the most important missionary of the Gospel of Jesus among the Greek and Roman pagans, but also of many others who became bearers of God’s word to distant and often hostile populations.<\/p>\n

Throughout the centuries many humanitarian, health and economic initiatives have been promoted and organized by religious and lay missionaries to bring a significant contribution to the less fortunate parts of the world. We have already mentioned some of them in the past, such as Operation Mato Grosso<\/strong><\/a>, which deals with the education of young people through service and mission in different parts of the world.<\/p>\n

Since the 1960s, what was an occasional yearning that took the form of episodic interventions without precise rules has become coordinated and defined according to codified criteria and a widespread organizational network. In this context of reevaluation and reorganization of missionary work comes the request of the Italian Work of the Propagation of the Faith<\/strong> for the proclamation of World Mission Day.<\/p>\n

What is World Mission Day<\/h2>\n

World Mission Day was proclaimed in 1926<\/strong> by Pope Pius XI. Strongly desired by the Work of the Propagation of the Faith, it is a celebration dedicated to missionary solidarity and involves the whole Church as an instrument of charity in the world. Since 1963, each World Mission Day has been defined by a papal message<\/strong> proclaiming its intentions and anticipating the fundamental themes that will be its protagonists.<\/p>\n

It is celebrated every year on the penultimate Sunday in October<\/strong>, so this year it falls on October 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Holy Family sculpture in hands natural lenga 30×30 cm Peru<\/a><\/div>\n
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But before we get to World Mission Day, which is the culmination of Missionary October, a spirituality journey unfolds in five weeks<\/strong>, each dedicated to a specific theme for reflection. Let’s look at this year’s ones:<\/p>\n