Let's live this month well. It doesn't take much imagination: pray the rosary, offer some Mass, dedicate some time of our prayer to pray for the missionaries... offer some possible sacrifice for this precious intention! Ask in the parish or in the diocese what activities of formation and missionary prayer are going to be carried out in our city... We are not wasting time, but supporting the life of the Church.
I do not know what fruit it will bear in the hearts of the people, I do not know what fruits will be harvested in the missionary life of the Church. What I do know, because it is evident, that after this month it will continue to be necessary for us to pray for the mission of the Church, that once October is over; we will continue to need young people to ask themselves with generosity and simplicity if God may be calling them on the path of surrender and mission; there will continue to be men and women who do not love the Lord, because they have not had the opportunity to be told about Him by anyone....
I am a priest; I did not receive this gift to shut myself up in my room. You have a priestly heart, because you also participate in the priesthood of Christ through your baptism... This heart loves God and loves all men! A priestly heart means a heart that loves everyone and loves them with the love of God: it matters to you, it matters to us, that they, those who do not yet know him, love him! It matters to you, it matters to us, that they, those who do not yet know him, discover how much God loves them! And are you going to stay still?
May this Extraordinary Missionary Month serve, at least, so that all Christians may grow in the desire to be instruments of God and of the Church to bring God's love to those who are not close to Him.
