In 1926, Pope Pius XI instituted World Mission Sunday. He asked for prayer, animation, celebration, and offerings for the Missions. His concern was to engender a sense of responsibility in people for supporting the Missions throughout the world.
              Your prayers and generous support on World Mission Sunday, through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, directly benefit the Mission Church today. That support reaches clinics caring for the sick and dying, orphanages providing a place of safety and shelter, schools offering education from kindergarten through high school.
Your help provides for seminarians preparing for the priesthood, and religious Sisters and Brothers in formation programs. All of this takes place in 1,150 missions dioceses, mostly in Africa and Asia, where the poorest of the poor receive an education and health care, while experiencing the loving heart of our Lord through the service of priest, religious and lay faithful. Please be generous in this Sunday´s Collection. In this way you are participating in God´s mission as it was lived by Jesus.

Click here to read a message from Pope Francis.