As today is World Mission Sunday and October is the month of the Rosary, on this weeks programme we are joined by Mary Keating and Ellen Mockler to pray the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary for evangelisation and for all those involved in missionary roles. While it is important to pray for priests, religious and lay missionaries, it is worth remembering what Bishop Robert Barron said recently at Adoremus in Liverpool: "You don't have to fly over oceans to get to mission territory do you today? You walk outside the door of any church in the Western world you're in Mission country."
You can listen to the podcast of this weeks programme HERE.
World Mission Sunday 2018
In this week's programme we bring together two great themes of the liturgical calendar in October: World Mission Sunday, which is celebrated today throughout the world, and October as the month of the Rosary. Through our baptism we are all called to be missionaries and at the end of every Mass we are sent as missionaries testifying and witnessing to the love and mercy that we have received from God. As Pope Francis says in his message for World Mission Sunday:
"Every man and woman is a mission; that is the reason for our life on this earth. To be attracted and to be sent are two movements that our hearts, especially when we are young, feel as interior forces of love; they hold out promise for our future and they give direction to our lives... The fact that we are not in this world by our own choice makes us sense that there is an initiative that precedes us and makes us exist. Each one of us is called to reflect on this fact: 'I am a mission on this Earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world' (Evangelii Gaudium, 273)."
Rosary: Mysteries of Light for Mission and Evangelisation
Our mission on earth is to bear witness to love. There is so much hatred, apathy, disenfranchisement and loneliness in the world that what we need most of all is love, mercy and compassion. We need to be apostles of love and the only way we can truly do that is by allowing ourselves to be loved by the God who is love, incarnating that in our hearts and bringing it to others.
As missionaries of love we are also missionaries of light, bringing the light of Christ to the hearts of others. As we reflect this week on the Mysteries of Light, we meditate on excerpts from Rosarium Virginis Mariae where we contemplate those moments in the life of Christ where it was clearly shown that He is the “light of the world” (Jn 8:12). In contemplating the beauty of the face of Christ with Mary through Scriptural passages we experience the depths of His love (cf. RVM, paragraph 1).
Irish Catholic: Man on a Mission
Gospel - Mark 10:35-45
James and John, the sons of Zebedee, approached Jesus. ‘Master,’ they said to him ‘we want you to do us a favour.’ He said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’ They said to him, ‘Allow us to sit one at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.’ ‘You do not know what you are asking’ Jesus said to them. ‘Can you drink the cup that I must drink, or be baptised with the baptism with which I must be baptised?’ They replied, ‘We can.’ Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I must drink you shall drink, and with the baptism with which I must be baptised you shall be baptised, but as for seats at my right hand or my left, these are not mine to grant; they belong to those to whom they have been allotted.’
When the other ten heard this they began to feel indignant with James and John, so Jesus called them to him and said to them, ‘You know that among the pagans their so-called rulers lord it over them, and their great men make their authority felt. This is not to happen among you. No; anyone who wants to become great among you must be your servant, and anyone who wants to be first among you must be slave to all. For the Son of Man himself did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.’
Reflections on this weeks Sunday gospel:
Word on Fire
Sunday Reflections
Centre for Liturgy
English Dominicans
Liturgical odds & ends
Liturgy of the Hours - Psalter week 1
Saints of the Week
October 22nd - St. John Paul II
October 23rd - St. John of Capistrano
October 24th - St. Anthony Mary Claret
October 25th - Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy
October 26th - St. Peter of Alcantara
October 27th - St. Odhran/Otteran
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