A letter from Bishop Thomas J. Tobin

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My Dear Friends in Christ,

Celebrated this year on October 21, World Mission Sunday gives us the opportunity to reach out in faith to more than two-thirds of the world’s people who have yet to hear the “Good News” of Jesus Christ, their Savior, or to experience through the word and witness of missionaries His abiding love. The responsibility to be missionary, to share our faith and to be active participants in the Church’s mission to all peoples, came to us at Baptism. Therefore, on World Mission Sunday we can show this responsibility within the context of the Eucharist by offering prayers and support, through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, for the mission of making Jesus known “to the ends of the earth.”

World Mission Sunday is a universal celebration, a worldwide recommitment to the Church’s evangelizing mission taking place in parishes throughout the missions as well as here. United with Catholics throughout the world on October 21, let us pray for the Church’s missionary work and offer our personal sacrifices, our own sufferings, cares and concerns, in union with the sufferings of Christ on the Cross for the salvation of the world. We can also offer financial help through the Propagation of the Faith for the Church’s work in more than 1,150 dioceses throughout Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands and Latin America.

The missionary work of the Church depends on each one of us. I want to encourage the fullest participation of the people in the Diocese of Providence in the celebration of World Mission Sunday. Please be as generous as your means will allow and continue to pray that all of us in this diocese may be eager and effective witnesses of Jesus in our world.

Sincerely Yours,

Thomas J. Tobin

Bishop of Providence