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Kenya: Changing Your Community, With $20 A Week, and A Lot of Faith

Kenya: Changing Your Community, With $20 A Week, and A Lot of Faith In Northern Kenya, the Catholic Church faces unique challenges. Geographic isolation, cultural differences, and limited resources make the missionary work both essential and difficult. Imagine if your parish was running, in addition to catechetical activities, seven-night schools for shepherd children, offering educational […]

During Lent, Sacrifice to help the Missions in Chad

Be the Lord’s Witnesses …and Sacrifice Our Baptism into the Catholic faith teaches us that Lent is a time to sacrifice.  It is a time to be a witness to our Lord by giving joyfully   A time to reach out and love the poor and needy.  And as, Blessed Pauline Jaricot, the Societies founder, says, […]

St. John Eudes Rehabilitation Center, Kenya

John Eudes Rehabilitation Centre, founded 2001, in the Catholic Diocese of Kitui, was built to assist the increasing number of children who, due to challenging economic and social circumstances, are forced to live on the streets in Kitui and surrounding districts. The Centre offers an environment with programs that help re-build the children’s lives, striving […]

WOULD YOU help and ADOPT-A-MISSION SEMINARIAN? #2

“I want to be of service . . .” Jacob is a Seminarian at Saint Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary in Bambui, Cameroon. Jacob comes from a large family and while his faith is strong, realizing his vocation has not been straightforward.  “My father said I should go to University and that priests are too reliant […]

WOULD YOU help and ADOPT-A-SEMINARIAN? 

“Might I interest you in my Seminary? At the moment the Seminary has more than 50 students, and providing for them is a challenge with our very limited resources. At the beginning of last year, we had to announce that we could only admit 12 new students, two from each district. Well, from one district […]

Living Waters brought by Missionaries to Zambia

Living Waters brought by Missionaries to Zambia She comes to collect water – like almost half the population of Zambia who seek daily access to clean water. And she finds it here, so close also to the source of “living waters,” of all hope – Jesus Himself, present in the work and witness of priests […]

Uganda – MCA

An Attitude of Gratitude: Mission Focus on Uganda Click HERE for the Life in the Missions- Focus on Uganda” Information Sheet to distribute to your PREP or School Children tied to one of the the 2017 Catechetical Mission Resources.  Click HERE for the Grateful and Giving Tree Mission Activity Heart Template also from the 2017 […]

Present a Child with the Gift of Hope

Pray and help the Holy Spirit Sisters, who through the efforts of the Missionary Childhood Association are able to care for and teach the children about Jesus! Last year, the Sun of Hope children celebrated their first Christmas.  They all worked together to make their very own Christmas Tree.

Growing the Faith in Mission Lands

Growing the Faith in Mission Lands . . . will you be the one to help cultivate the seed? Seminarians at Saint Thomas are being formed in the faith –  and in the field, as they learn agriculture practices on the Seminary’s farm, the knowledge they’ll take to their future parishes to help combat hunger. These future priests will be ready to feed body and soul.

Help Pope Francis’ Missionaries

Pope Francis has reminded us throughout the year, “I am a Missionary on this earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world.” Take the time now to reflect, have I done all I could to be Missionary?