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Friday, January 24, 2014

Missionary Option



The Pope says that he dreams of a missionary option. Listen to what he says:

"I dream of a "missionary option", that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her self-preservation. The renewal of structures demanded by pastoral conversion can only be understood in this light: as part of an effort to make them more mission-oriented, to make ordinary pastoral activity on every level more inclusive and open, to inspire in pastoral workers a constant desire to go forth and in this way to elicit a positive response from all those whom Jesus summons to friendship with himself."
We need to go out and try to help our parishes; unfortunately we are often not active in our parish yet what are we doing to help the parish become a place of growth?

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