We are commissioned to announce the mercy of God

在这个世界宣教主日, all of us are invited to “go out” as missionary disciples, each generously offering their talents, 创造力, wisdom and experience in order to bring the message of God’s tenderness and compassion to the entire human family.

By virtue of the missionary mandate, the Church…“is commissioned to announce the mercy of God, the beating heart of the Gospel” and to proclaim mercy in every corner of the world, 触及每一个人, 年轻还是年老.

当慈悲遇到一个人, it brings deep joy to the Father’s heart; for from the beginning the Father has lovingly turned towards the most vulnerable, because his greatness and power are revealed precisely in his capacity to identify with the young, the marginalized and the oppressed.  他是个善良的人。, caring and faithful God who is 关闭 to those in need, especially the poor; he involves himself tenderly in human reality just as a father and mother do in the lives of their children.

Mercy finds its most noble and complete expression in the Incarnate Word. Jesus reveals the face of the Father who is rich in mercy; he “speaks of [mercy] and explains it by the use of comparisons and parables, but above all he himself makes it incarnate and personifies it”.

All peoples and cultures have the right to receive the message of salvation which is God’s gift to every person. This is all the more necessary when we consider how many injustices, 战争, and humanitarian crises still need resolution. Missionaries know from experience that the Gospel of forgiveness and mercy can bring joy and reconciliation, 正义与和平.

“Each Christian and every community must discern the path that the Lord points out, but all of us are asked to obey his call to go forth from our own comfort zone in order to reach all the ‘peripheries’ in need of the light of the Gospel” (20).

Let us not 关闭 our hearts within our own particular concerns, but let us open them to all of humanity.

愿圣母玛利亚, sublime icon of redeemed humanity, model of missionaries for the Church, 教导众人, 妇女和家庭, to foster and safeguard the living and mysterious presence of the Risen Lord in every place, he who renews personal relationships, 文化和民族, and who fills all with joyful mercy.