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Mission Column February 8, 2012 From Director’s Desk, Sister Mary Ellen Brett, SSJ Looking to Lent to be Missionaries As the 2012 Season of Lent is quickly approaches, we seek ways to draw closer to Jesus. It is the opportune time to share our faith stories with other parishioners in parish small faith sharing groups. Each group will listen to the word of God, learn about the Scriptures and apply the Scriptures to daily life. Faith sharing groups provide parishioners with excellent opportunities to grow in holiness, to become more welcoming and to witness to Christ more consciously in the family, the neighborhood and the workplace. Be a Lenten Missionary in sharing your faith stories so that other people may be encouraged to find God in their daily lives’ experiences. You may wish to be a Lenten Missionary in a special way in your home. Perhaps schedule family activities to promote Lent. One family suggestion is have your family gets a map or globe of the world and place it in the room where the family eats together. Find the following countries where starvation and hunger are major problems: Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Laos, India, Pakistan, Bosnia, Peru, Nigeria, and Dominican Republic. When you gather for a meal and after you have thanked God for your food, look at your map or globe and pray for the poor and hungry people of a city in one of the countries; today, let us pray for the poor and hungry people in Somalia. What country will you pray for during Lent that the love of missionaries will enable the love of Christ to be shown in the missions?Please remember “The Society for the Propagation of the Faith” when writing or changing your Will. Click here for past Weekly Mission Columns. |
