We are those sent out by Jesus

Fr. Livio Tonello, director

Pope Francis wanted the month of October that we are about to live to be an extraordinary missionary month and he asks all the faithful “to take to heart the proclamation of the Gospel and to help their communities grow in missionary and evangelizing zeal” so that the love for the Church’s mission, which is “a passion for Jesus and a passion for his people”—as Saint John Paul II affirmed—grow ever stronger! In Matthew’s Gospel we read: “Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness... Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them” (Mt 10:1-5). Sent out. We are all so even today, from Jesus in person. But where? The missionaries, of course, know the way. The choice is theirs, misery is everywhere, at the four cardinal points of the earth. They go and know why, for whom. Like baba Lorenzo, a Venetian priest transplanted in Malawi. One who dedicated all of himself to every man, woman, child in this hinterland of Africa. He didn’t spent his years just for Catholics. He was baba, that is, father, of everyone, immersed in a time…