{"id":9288,"date":"2023-10-16T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimission.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=9288"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:20:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T10:20:29","slug":"world-mission-sunday-hearts-on-fire-feet-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/10\/16\/world-mission-sunday-hearts-on-fire-feet-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"World Mission Sunday. \u201cHearts on Fire, Feet on the Move\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year World Mission Day will be celebrated on Sunday, 29 October, focused on the theme:\u00a0 \u201cHearts on Fire, Feet on the Move\u201d,\u00a0 inspired by the story of the first appearance of Jesus to two of His Disciples, after His crucifixion and the discovery of the empty tomb, in the Gospel of Luke (24:13-35).<\/em><\/p>\n

In his message, Pope Francis dwells on three images in the Gospel episode, which he says \u201creflect the journey of all missionary disciples\u201d.<\/p>\n

The first one is that of their bewilderment after the crucifixion, changing into their \u201chearts burning\u201d after they met the mysterious Wayfarer explaining to them what was said in the Scriptures about Him.<\/p>\n

This story – Pope Francis writes – reminds us that the Risen Lord remains close to his missionary disciples, particularly when they feel “disoriented, discouraged, fearful of the mystery of iniquity that surrounds them\u201d, and that with His Word He transforms us so that we can proclaim His mystery of Salvation.<\/p>\n

Pope Francis points out: \u201cLet us always be willing to let ourselves be accompanied by the Risen Lord as he explains to us the meaning of the Scriptures. May he make our hearts burn within us; may he enlighten and transform us, so that we can proclaim his mystery of salvation to the world with the power and wisdom that come from his Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second image recalled in the message is that of the disciples \u201copening their eyes\u201d when Jesus takes the bread, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u201d, the Pope notes, \u201cwe can recognise an essential reality of our faith: Christ, who breaks the bread, now becomes the bread broken, shared with the disciples and consumed by them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery missionary disciple is called to become, like Jesus and in Him, through the working of the Holy Spirit, one who breaks the bread and one who is broken bread for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third image recalled by Pope Francis is that of the disciples setting out on the way, \u201cwith the joy of telling others about the Risen Christ\u201d. This setting out in haste to share with others the joy of meeting the Lord\u201d, the Pope notes, \u201cdemonstrates that the joy of the Gospel fills the heart and the whole life of those who meet Jesus. One cannot truly encounter the Risen Jesus without being set on fire with enthusiasm to tell everyone about Him\u201d, he stresses.<\/p>\n

Hence the duty of every Christian to announce the Gospel to our broken world \u201cwithout excluding anyone, not as one who imposes a new obligation, but as one who shares a joy, signals a beautiful horizon, offers a desirable banquet\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe image of \u2018feet setting out\u2019 reminds us once more of the perennial validity of the missio ad gentes,<\/em> the mission entrusted to the Church by the risen Lord to evangelize all individuals and peoples, even to the ends of the earth. Today more than ever, our human family, wounded by so many situations of injustice, so many divisions and wars, is in need of the Good News of peace and salvation in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bringing his message to a close, Pope Francis points out that all of us \u201ccan contribute to this missionary movement with our prayers and activities, with material offerings and the offering of our sufferings, and with our personal witness\u201d.<\/p>\n

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This calls for \u2018an ever closer missionary cooperation\u2019 on the part of all members of the Church at every level, which he says is \u201can essential goal of the synodal journey that the Church has undertaken, guided by the keywords: communion, participation, mission\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Pope concluded: \u201cLet us set out to make other hearts burn with the word of God, to open the eyes of others to Jesus in the Eucharist, and to invite everyone to walk together on the path of peace and salvation that God, in Christ, has bestowed upon all humanity\u201d. (L.Z.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year World Mission Day will be celebrated on Sunday, 29 October, focused on the theme:\u00a0 \u201cHearts on Fire, Feet on the Move\u201d,\u00a0 inspired by the story of the first appearance of Jesus to two of His Disciples, after His crucifixion and the discovery of the empty tomb, in the Gospel of Luke (24:13-35). In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}