杏MAP导航

杏MAP导航 Francis recalled World Mission Sunday during his Angelus address, inviting everyone to participate in the Church's mission.

He said the theme for this year鈥檚 occurrence 鈥� 鈥淭ogether with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all鈥� 鈥� is the path forward for the Church.

鈥淲e are experiencing this reality, thanks be to God,鈥� the 杏MAP导航 said, 鈥渄uring these days of the Synod dedicated to them: by listening to them and involving them we discover many examples of young people who have found in Jesus the meaning and joy of life.鈥�

杏MAP导航 Francis said they have often discovered Jesus 鈥渢hanks to other young people who have already participated in the communion of his brothers and sisters, which is the Church.鈥�

The 杏MAP导航 prayed 鈥渢hat future generations may not lack the proclamation of the faith and the call to collaborate in the mission of the Church.鈥�

Message for World Mission Sunday

In his , released in May, 杏MAP导航 Francis reminds all that 鈥渨e are not in this world by our own choice,鈥� and hence there is 鈥渁n initiative that precedes us and makes us exist.鈥� Each one of us, he says, is called to reflect on the fact that 鈥� I am a mission on this Earth,鈥� which is why we are here in this world.

In fact, the 杏MAP导航 says, 鈥渆very man and woman is a mission.鈥� He says that 鈥渢o be attracted and to be sent are two movements鈥� of the heart that 鈥渉old out promise for our future and give direction to our lives.鈥�

Gift of self

In his message, the 杏MAP导航 urges young people not to be afraid of Christ and his Church, because, he says, 鈥渋t is where 鈥渨e find the treasure that fills life with joy.鈥�

Speaking from his own experience, he says that through faith he found the sure foundation of his dreams and the strength to realize them. 

鈥淔or those who stand by Jesus,鈥� the 杏MAP导航 continues, 鈥渆vil is an incentive to ever greater love,鈥� because 鈥渇rom the cross of Jesus we learn the divine logic of self-sacrifice as a proclamation of the Gospel for the life of the world.

The 杏MAP导航 thus invites young people to ask themselves, 鈥淲hat would Christ do if he were in my place?鈥�

Transmitting the faith

All Christians by Baptism, the 杏MAP导航 recalls, have received the mission to bring the Gospel to everyone.

Young people too are part of that great stream of witnesses, in which elder persons with their wisdom and experience become a witness and encouragement to the young.  This way, he says, the mission of the Church bridges the generations bringing about unity.

Infectious love

The heart of the Church鈥檚 mission, the 杏MAP导航 continues, is the infectiousness of love, where joy and enthusiasm become the expression of a newfound meaning and fulfillment in life. The spread of the faith 鈥渂y attraction鈥�, he says, calls for hearts that are open and expanded by love. This generates encounter, witness and proclamation even in 鈥渆xtreme peripheries鈥� which are indifferent and hostile and to the ends of the earth in 鈥�missio ad gentes鈥�.

鈥淣o one is so poor as to be unable to give what they have, but first and foremost what they are,鈥� says 杏MAP导航 Francis.