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by bcadmin | Oct 14, 2022 | Deacon Mickey Friesen, News, Practicing Catholic, world mission sunday | 0 |
World Mission Sunday is “that one time,” apart from liturgical feasts, that is celebrated in the Church around the world, said Deacon Mickey Friesen, director of the Center for Mission in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. This year, it falls on the weekend of Oct. 22-23.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2022 | Autumn and the sacraments, Digital Edition, Justice and voting, NET Lifetime returns, News, Recognizing impact of boarding schools, Social teaching series, Vatican II anniversary, world mission sunday | 0 |
World Mission Sunday, Justice and voting, Recognizing impact of boarding schools, Social teaching series, Vatican II anniversary, NET Lifetime returns, Autumn and the sacraments
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Blessed Pauline Jaricot, Center for Mission, Deacon Mickey Friesen, Featured, News, world mission sunday | 0 |
After separate missionary trips to Alaska, India, Jamaica and Kenya, four witnesses of Christ in others and of his love in their own lives share some of their experiences of the universal Church with The Catholic Spirit this World Mission Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | France, Missionaries, News, Pauline Jaricot, St. Francis of Assisi, world mission sunday | 0 |
Actions do speak louder than words. People inspire me and teach me more by how they live than by what they say. Actions also give meaning to the words we speak. I think this is especially true in giving witness to Christ.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Alaska, Blessed Sacrament, Center for Mission, Dianne LaScotte, Galena, News, St. John Berchman church, world mission sunday | 0 |
While on an immersion and service trip to the tiny, remote village of Galena, Alaska, Dianne LaScotte approached an older resident outside St. John Berchman church to thank her for sharing her life story at a parish event. The woman, an elder in the Athabascan Indian community to which most of the village’s 470 residents belong, responded with curiosity, “Why are you here?”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Diocese of Vijayapuram, India, Marta Pereira, News, St. Antony’s Pilgrim Shrine, world mission sunday | 0 |
When Marta Pereira visited St. Antony’s Pilgrim Shrine during an immersion trip to the Diocese of Vijayapuram in India, she was awed by the thousands of faithful who gathered for the sacraments and eucharistic adoration on a Tuesday, the Church’s traditional day to honor and pray to the saint.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Diocese of Mandeville, Grant Rabuse, Jamaica, Mandeville, Missionaries of Charity, News, world mission sunday | 0 |
A forlorn-looking woman standing outside her small shack near Mandeville, Jamaica, caught the eye of the van driver who was taking Grant Rabuse and nine others from the archdiocese to a mission site in the south-central Diocese of Mandeville.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Center for Mission, Debbie Keller, Kenya, Kitui, News, world mission sunday | 0 |
All the meetings Debbie Keller attended in Kitui, Kenya, during a Center for Mission partnership trip started in a surprising way — whether they were about community building and resources or gatherings with local women.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | French woman, News, Pauline Jaricot, Society for the Propagation of the Faith, world mission sunday | 0 |
In 1822, a young and rich French woman, Pauline Jaricot, founded the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | Center for Mission, News, Picks, Universal mission of the Church, world mission sunday | 0 |
The Center for Mission helps unite individuals, parishes and the entire Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to the universal mission of the Church, which is carrying Jesus’ saving message of love and healing to all corners of the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | injustice, mission, News, We cannot remain silent, world mission sunday | 0 |
Sometimes in life we have to speak up and act. We feel compelled to respond to someone in need or we cannot remain silent to a situation of injustice. Our hearts become restless for something more or something new, and we have to listen. These moments can move us beyond our comfort zones and even beyond our normal understanding of good sense. We just know there is something we have to do and cannot ignore it any longer.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 14, 2021 | Cambodia, Laos, Metro State University, News, Southeast Asian refugees, Vietnam, Vietnam War, world mission sunday | 0 |
Following the official end of the Vietnam War April 30, 1975, more than 750,000 refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos resettled in the United States.
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