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Rome (Agenzia Fides) – The awards for the “Best Evangelizers” and the conferring of the missions mandate to transmit the Light of evangelization of the Lord Jesus, were part of the celebrations that marked World Mission Sunday in many Chinese Catholic communities throughout the world. According to information sent to Agenzia Fides, October 18 was celebrated with great missionary enthusiasm, in accord with the Pope's Message on the occasion, entitled “The nations shall walk in its light.”
The parish of Wu An, of the Diocese of Han Dan, Province of He Bei, gave out awards to the “Best Evangelizers of the Year” on the day. Some 70 people, of all different ages, received a Cross and a prize, for a mission well done. According to the priest director of the missions in the Diocese, “we are now going to improve our catechesis, to improve the quality of evangelization.”
The parish of Liu He, in the Diocese of Tai Yuan, in the Province of Shan Xi, has renewed its missions mandate on Mission Sunday. During the Mass that day, the priest called for further missionary zeal among the faithful, that “each one of us may assume his own missionary responsibility. There are still to many people thirsting for Jesus, for His saving message.” After the conferring of the missions mandate and the imposition of the hands by the concelebrants, the group was sent on its way to evangelize and transmit the Lord's Light. To respond to these concrete demands of the local mission, the community has collected over 200,000 Yuan (nearly 22,000 Euros) to build two chapels: one of 70 sq. meters for a village that had nothing and another in the village of Dong Mu Zhuang, which is about to be finished. (NZ) (Agenzia Fides 21/10/2009)
