Nearly a year after its inauguration, St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Behiang, under the Archdiocese of Imphal in northeast India, welcomed two Ursuline Sisters from the Pune Province who will begin a new mission in this Indo–Myanmar border village.
The Great Pilgrimage of Hope, held in Penang, Malaysia, from November 27 to 30, brought renewed focus to a fundamental truth of Christian life: mission is not the task of a few, but the identity of every baptized believer.
We were invited to look upon Asia not as a “land to be conquered,” but as a home, in the spirit of the FABC, where the “Seeds of the Word” are already present within its cultures and religions.
The Catholic Church observes ‘World Mission Day’ on Sunday, 19 October. There is added significance this year because it is the Jubilee Year, and the focus is on becoming ‘pilgrims of hope’.
A small rural village in France — the priest Vincent de Paul preached a sermon in front of poor peasants in the countryside who did not have access to the church since many of its priests were in the cities.
