Quite often, when I am visiting school or parishes, speaking
to groups about the missionary work of the Church and the need for everyone to
take responsibility for it, I hear the same feedback: I have so little. How can
I make a difference when the problems are so large?
My first response is clear – we can all pray, daily, for
missionaries and the people they serve.
It has been a great privilege for me to travel to many
mission sites around the world as I do my job and when I ask missionaries
anywhere what I can do for them, to a person, their answer is always the same: Pray for us.
As Pope Francis recently said, “Prayer is the bread of
faith.”
Of course, missionaries have material needs as well as
spiritual ones; you may be surprised at the difference that even the smallest
contribution can make to their work. For
that reason, I encourage everyone I meet to regularly use our spiritual
enrollment greeting cards for every occasion.
Donors can offer just $3 and choose from birthday, get well, sympathy,
thank you, or thinking of you cards, among many others. We also offer cards for those receiving the
sacraments of the Church. Our special Christmas enrollments are offered for
$5.
The person receiving the card becomes enrolled as a member
in The Society for the Propagation of the Faith and shares in the intention of
15,000 Masses said over the period of one year by priests in the missions as
well as a daily Mass said at the Vatican.
And how does $3 help a missionary’s work?
- Twelve disabled elderly are fed at a mission clinic in Haiti
- Six children are vaccinated against polio in Zambia
- Three people suffering from cholera in India will receive life-saving IV fluids
- Seventy-five children will have pencils for school in Ecuador
For more information about our spiritual enrollment cards
and to see our full catalog of the different cards, click here.
-Maureen Crowley Heil
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