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Bangalore (Agenzia Fides) - For World Mission Sunday 2007 the Catholic Bishops of India will focus attention on the theme of Fidei donum priests and the formation of missionaries to send to other countries. The national Pontifical Mission Societies office addressed mission day material and a letter to every diocese informing of the decision. “The Church in India must prepare to share the faith inside and outside the country, thanks to specific formation for missionaries and the cultural and spiritual level”, said Mgr. Ignaci Siluvai PMS national director in India in the letter. “Mission Sunday is an opportunity for the faithful to renew commitment to support missionary activity with prayers and offerings of money”
Mgr Siluvai recalls that this year Mission Sunday has a special connotation: to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Fidei Donum Encyclical, promulgated by Pius XII in 1957, and also the Jubilee of the birth of the great missionary Saint Paul of Tarsus, born two thousand years ago.
In preparation for World Mission Sunday, diocesan directors of the Pontifical Mission Societies will organise a missionary week of special prayers, awareness building, discussions in schools, meetings, processions, emphasising most of all the importance of praying for missionaries and the people in mission countries in communion with all the local Churches around the world. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 8/10/2007 righe 24 parole 241)
