Mary is pictured in Luke 1,26-38 as someone who hears, reflects on, questions, and once clarified, gives consent to the Word of God; as someone who accepts in faith God’s Word or God’s plan of salvation and is ready to cooperate with it.
Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Kolkata urged major seminary rectors to guide seminarians to reach out to families and villages with a missionary thrust for freedom in Jesus.
People are becoming homeless and are migrating to cities and countries. Migration is a global reality and brings in multiculturality and multi-religiosity in the cities. We find difference, diversity, and polarity in the global village for our mission today. To approach this situation and do our mission we need to dialogue.
"Christian mission is much more than just going there, going anywhere to do good. We are entrusted with a mission, a message that we must proclaim and make known to all, and that is the good news of Jesus Christ," says Ms. MaryClaire Fan.
Sister Marie Ingkie Veloz Taboclaon will be the first Filipina Superior (responsible person) for the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Good and Perpetual Help in the Philippines.
"Thinking about the missionary development of the church in Thailand, I am always impressed by the foreign missionaries' work," says Bishop Francis Xavier Vira Arpondratana of Chiang Mai.
