{"id":24015,"date":"2019-10-05T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T08:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?p=24015"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:22:15","slug":"pope-francis-prays-for-a-new-missionary-spring-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/pope-francis-prays-for-a-new-missionary-spring-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis prays for a new missionary spring in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Missionary Spring in the Church \u2013 The Pope Video 10 \u2013 October 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wi6VxvIU4mQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" role=\"main\">\n<section class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row cuerpo-news element-bottom-50 news\">\n<div class=\"col-md-9 col-md-push-3 blog-list-layout-normal\">\n<article id=\"post-274474\" class=\"post-274474 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news\">\n<div class=\"post-body\">\n<div class=\"pray-content\">\n<p><strong><em>In <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepopevideo.org\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>The Pope Video<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> for October, which is being released during the inauguration of the <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.october2019.va\/en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Extraordinary Missionary Month<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>, the Holy Father proposes imparting a \u201cnew impulse to the Church\u2019s missionary activity.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Vatican City, October 1) \u2014\u00a0This month of October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepopevideo.org\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pope Video<\/a> is directed to all Catholics, inviting them to reawaken their missionary awareness and face \u201cthe challenge of proclaiming Jesus and his death and resurrection.\u201d This month\u2019s edition of the video is presented in the framework of the beginning of the Extraordinary Missionary Month (EMM)\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/missionaryoctober\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MissionaryOctober<\/a>\u2014convoked by Pope Francis \u201cwith the aim of fostering an increased awareness of the<em> missio ad gentes<\/em> and taking up again with renewed fervour the missionary transformation of the Church\u2019s life and pastoral activity.\u201d\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppoomm.va\/index.php?chLang=EN&amp;opera=HOME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pontifical Mission Societies<\/a> have echoed the words of the Holy Father, who has expressed the desire that this EMM may be \u201can intense and fruitful occasion of grace, and promote initiatives and above all prayer, the soul of all missionary activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMissionary outreach is paradigmatic for all the Church\u2019s activity.\u201d There are regions in which the Church is still nascent and needs special support\u2014mission territories, as they are called. Currently, there are 1,109 such territories located in Africa, Asia and the islands of Oceania, and the Americas. It\u2019s estimated that 37% of the Universal Church is mission territory; that is to say, more than a third of the Catholic Church. This situation implies work that is in constant evolution, since as new territories are created, new social, educational, and pastoral institutions are assigned to cover all kinds of needs. An enormous portion of the Church\u2019s social and educational work is carried out in mission territories.<\/p>\n<p>In this video message, Francis proposes \u201creaching the peripheries\u2014the human, cultural, and religious settings still foreign to the Gospel.\u201d It is a universal call for all to announce the Gospel as missionary disciples. This renewed impulse, however, does not mean engaging in proselytism, but rather communicating life: \u201cGod, his divine life, his merciful love, his holiness! It is the Holy Spirit who sends us, accompanies us and inspires us. He is the source of our mission.\u201d The starting point of the missionary endeavour is the joy of the Gospel, and Francis explains that it must be proclaimed with respect for the cultures and traditions of all people, with the awareness that \u201cthe soul of the mission is prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fornos, SJ, International Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popesprayer.va\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope\u2019s Worldwide Prayer Network<\/a> (which includes the Eucharistic Youth Movement), emphasises that \u201cwe can do many things and spent a lot of energy at the service of the mission, but without prayer there\u2019s no true fruitfulness, and everything will become laborious because instead of being docile to the Holy Spirit we trust in our own strength and will\u2026 Experience teaches us that it is our prayer, a personal encounter with the Lord, that gives rise to the desire to serve his mission in the world around us, in our neighbourhoods and cities and even travelling throughout the world. The mission is not, in fact, a duty or an obligation, but a joyful abundance that overflows from our baptism, from our new life in Christ, and which we cannot help but share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his monthly prayer intention and at the beginning of this Extraordinary Missionary Month, Francis prays that \u201cthe Holy Spirit may engender a new missionary spring for all those baptised and sent by Christ\u2019s Church,\u201d members of a \u201cpilgrim Church [which is] missionary by nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>#MissionaryOctober<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Pope Video for October, which is being released during the inauguration of the Extraordinary Missionary Month, the Holy Father proposes imparting a \u201cnew impulse to the Church\u2019s missionary activity.\u201d (Vatican<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/pope-francis-prays-for-a-new-missionary-spring-in-the-church\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,454308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","category-faith-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24017,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24015\/revisions\/24017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}