2025.10.19 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dear Parishioners,

This Sunday, October 19^th, we celebrate the 99^th World Mission Sunday and this year’s theme is “Missionaries of Hope Among All Peoples”. This theme, inspired by the Jubilee Year of Hope, calls Christians to become "messengers and builders of hope" for others. Pope Pius XI instituted World Mission Sunday in 1926 as an initiative of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. This is now held globally on the next-to-last Sunday in October every year.

World Mission Sunday is a unique effort for the entire Church to provide help for over 1,100 dioceses and offer practical help to the poor through local churches and their witness to Christ. St. Paul, in his writings, speaks of us, believers, as being members of the same body, whose head is Jesus Christ. As members of the one body, united in Christ, we are responsible for the well being of one another. The World Mission Sunday gives the stronger members of the body of Christ an opportunity to support the weaker members of the body through our generous help and support and through our prayers. So, on this mission Sunday, let us pray for the global Church and offer whatever help we can, with a cheerful and generous heart.

Fr. Vijai, C.S.C. ~ Pastor