The SVD AUS Province is gearing up to celebrate World Mission Sunday on October 16 by sharing resources and planning activities across the Province to mark this special day in the Church’s calendar.

Mission Secretary, Fr Truc Quoc Phan SVD says that on World Mission Sunday, Catholics all over the world are called to reflect on and recommit to the Church’s missionary activity, through prayer, sacrifice and personal involvement.

The liturgy of this Sunday invites us to look at the mercy of God and experience God’s abundant generosity towards each one of us.

Last weekend I was with our Darwin Diocesan youth for the Breakaway retreat in Noonamah, NT. I drove up with two young men from Alice Springs for this retreat.

‘I gave his mother the money for his abortion, now look at him and see what I got.’ These were the words of Ae’s father when we drove to our Mother Mary Home for teenagers in Northeastern Thailand.