World Mission Sunday 2018: October 21

Share Your Faith – Give Life

World Mission Sunday is the one Sunday in the year when the entire global Church comes together in support of mission. And all the donations from these worldwide Masses go entirely to support churches, hospitals, schools and vocations in countries where the Church is new, young or poor. Through our prayers, we support missionaries everywhere in spreading the Good News. And by donating we respond to Christ’s call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked.

In the message addressed to all Christians, the Pope reminds us that “we are not in this world by our own choice,” and hence there is “an initiative that precedes us and makes us exist.”  Each one of us, he says, is called to reflect on the fact that ‘I am a mission on this Earth,” which is why we are here in this world. 

All Christians by Baptism, the Pope 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. The Holy Father further expresses satisfaction that through numerous ecclesial groups such as parishes, associations, movements, and religious communities, young people find in missionary volunteer work a way of serving the “least” of our brothers and sisters, promoting human dignity and witnessing to the joy of love and of being Christian.

 “No one is so poor as to be unable to give what they have, but first and foremost what they are,” the Pope says.

--- message from Msgr. Joseph

Mass Schedule 

Hampstead:
Saturday:  5 PM
Sunday:  9AM & 11AM

Surf City (Memorial Day weekend - Labor Day weekend only):
Reopens in spring

Find ways you can get involved:

allsaintsccnc.org/volunteer