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‘Go and invite everyone to the banquet’

October 8, 2024

Twenty years ago, I met Bishop George Pallipparambil (aka PK George), the founding bishop of Miao diocese, a new mission church located in the remote foothills of the Himalayan Mountains in northeastern India. It is one of the 1,100 mission dioceses in 100 countries that we support each year on World Mission Sunday.

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All are called as missionary disciples

October 8, 2024

As we prepare to celebrate World Mission Sunday on Oct. 20, we are reminded of the global mission of the Church and the important role we play in supporting those who bring the Gospel to the farthest reaches of the world. This mission resonates deeply with our Archdiocesan Synod’s call to be witnesses of Christ and to build communities that serve evangelization, as outlined in my pastoral letter, “You Will Be My Witnesses: Gathered and Sent From the Upper Room.”

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Myanmar priest draws Karenni refugees in Minnesota together around the Eucharist

October 8, 2024

In early 2013, Karenni priest Father Saw Joseph Kureh was 46 and running a parish in the Loikaw diocese in the in Myanmar when his bishop suddenly asked him to go to the United States.

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Mystery in the Eucharist can open dialogue with Muslims who find mystery in their faith

October 8, 2024

When considering the Catholic belief of the Eucharist as a sacred mystery, many Muslims could find common ground within their own faith, said Bob Brenneman, a professor and former evangelical pastor who spent 15 years sharing the Gospel with Muslims in the Middle East before becoming Catholic.

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Eucharist draws together young, new diocese in remote Indian state

October 8, 2024

When Bishop George Pallipparambil was a Salesian seminarian in northeastern India more than 40 years ago, he started seeing increasing numbers of Indigenous teens in the streets of Lusukia, Assam, where he was teaching at his religious community’s Don Bosco Bible School.

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Carrying out Jesus’ mission in the world

October 9, 2023

This year’s theme for World Mission Sunday, Oct. 21-22, is “Hearts on fire, feet on the move.”

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Call to mission continues, says executive director of From Mission to Mission

October 9, 2023

Growing up in Isanti, Kelli Nelson, 35, was immersed in her parish, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, alongside her parents and three siblings.

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Mission in Chile sparks dedication to Latino ministry

October 9, 2023

Anne Attea’s two and a half years of volunteer service in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, occurred from 1988 to 1990, a time of upheaval in that country.

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Priest: Devotion to the Blessed Mother strengthened by missionary service

October 9, 2023

Father Mark Niehaus’ devotion to the Blessed Mother began in his childhood home in Ivanhoe, in southwestern Minnesota.

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Africa experiences help shape religious sister’s help to others

October 9, 2023

The call of Africa came early to Sister Mary Kerber, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.

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Pope Francis: Mission begins by meeting Jesus in the Scriptures and Eucharist

October 9, 2023

Having come to know Jesus through the Scriptures and in the Eucharist, Catholics are called to share with others the hope and joy that come from faith and that endure even when life gets difficult, Pope Francis said.

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