Lyons (Fides Service) - Once again this year for World Mission Day the head office of the Pontifical Mission Societies in France has invited national offices all over the world to join in a round the world prayer successfully achieved in 2001, to ensure that Mission Sunday is a world day of prayer for missionaries and missionary work and other special intentions. People are asked to pray for these intentions between 9 and 10 am local time on Sunday 24 October, and since the PMS has offices in almost every diocese in every country on every continent this will mean that for 24 hours prayers for the missions on this special day will embrace the world in a choral hymn of praise to God. Already PMS head offices in the following countries have informed the French office that their people will be taking part: Head office of Propagation of the Faith in the Vatican, “Missio” Munich, Poland, Canada-Toronto, Switzerland, Slovakia, Sudan, Togo, Tanzania, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, India, Belgium, Congo, Francia.
Some office include special prayer intentions: seminarians at St. Paul’s seminary Khartoum (Sudan) will offer their prayers “for peace in Sudan, which has enjoyed only 10 years of peace since its independence in 1956”. In Lyons the chapel in the home where Paolina Jaricot was born will be open for visitors from 9 to 10 in spiritual communion with people around the world.
(S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 22/10/2004; Righe 18 - Parole 243)