Mission

World Mission Sunday is a day Catholics recommit to their baptismal call to spread the Gospel through prayer, participation in the life of the Church and in everyday living.

“Mission is based on an encounter between people, on the testimony of men and women who say, ‘I know Jesus, and I’d like you to know him too,” the pope said.

Dominican Father Bill Garrott has conducted over 175 parish missions across the country.

Mission “is that dynamic that leads you to be a neighbor to others to share the gift you have received: the encounter of love that changed your life and led you to consecrate your life to the Lord Jesus, good news for the life and salvation of the world,” the pope said Feb. 8.

World Mission Sunday is a day set aside for all Catholics worldwide to celebrate their individual and communal call to mission, to solidarity, to unity, to witness and to evangelization both near and far.

Young people from around the diocese reflect on how mission has impacted their lives.

The most desolate places in the world in need of Christ are where people are indifferent, even hostile to God and his love. The church’s mission is to bring the faith to the ends of the earth, especially to these “extreme peripheries,” Pope Francis said.

Mission is an adventure with God into a new world. Maryknoll Father Shaun Crumb, whose home parish is Sacred Heart in Glenwood, was ordained in 2015 and is currently serving in China.