Saturday, December 3
FEAST OF FRANCIS XAVIER, PRIEST
Go west, young missionaries
If Saint Francis Xavier—considered the greatest Christian missionary after Saint Paul—were alive today, what would his mission territory be? If he were to follow the pope’s advice, he’d head to the West—that is, to the industrialized nations of Europe and North America. In a statement about the need for a new evangelization, Pope Benedict XVI said that in the West “many of the baptized lead totally un-Christian lives and more and more persons maintain some links to the faith but have little or poor knowledge of it.” The goal of missionaries in the new evangelization is not to proselytize but rather to help Catholics and Christians “discover the richness they already possess.” Become a missionary in the new evangelization: Invite a friend to sign up to receive Take Five for Faith!TODAY’S READINGS: Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26; Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5a, 6-8 (180)
“Jesus went around to all the towns and villages,teaching in their synagogues.”
CONTRIBUTORS
Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O'Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
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