Advent Retreat with Family Missions Company

retreat from Nov 30, 2025 to Dec 24, 2025
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Join Family Missions Company missionaries journeying through the Advent season! Each week, one of our missionaries will reflect on the Gospel from each Sunday of Advent.

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People all over the world are living and dying every day without knowing the love of Jesus. Family Missions Company was founded in 1997 to address this injustice. We are an apostolate of lay, Catholic foreign missionaries committed to sharing the Gospel, serving the poor, and making disciples across the globe. When we make real friends with the poor, lives are transformed, hope is restored, and the Kingdom of God grows!

What leads someone to abandon the comforts of modern life and follow Jesus into mission? Watch the Call to Mission testimonies of FMC's missionaries to find out!

Might God be calling YOU to be a lay foreign missionary? Schedule an introductory call with us!

Learn more about FMC and how you can support our mission to take the Gospel to the ends of the earth!

Retreat prayer

A Prayer for Missionaries

In the Name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Lord, thank You for calling us to participate in Your mission, which is the greatest and holiest duty of the Church. We thank you for our Baptism, in which You make us partakers of Your own Divine Life. We thank you for the gift of Confirmation, in which You empower us to become witnesses to Your love and to Your Gospel. We thank you for the Most Holy Eucharist, in which You give us Yourself as food to nourish and strengthen us. Help us, Lord, to be courageous, evangelistic missionaries in our everyday lives. Teach us to see You in our brothers and sisters – regardless of race or language. Help us to live our lives in such a way that our words and actions proclaim You as Christ, the Lord. Bless in special way those missionaries who have given their lives to You, to serve You in difficult and often dangerous situations. Give them the grace each day to be a conduit of Your love and mercy to the poor and those furthest from You. And keep them holy as they spread Your Gospel even to the ends of the earth. We ask all of this through the intercession of St. Francis Xavier and St. Therese of the Child Jesus, co-Patrons of Missions. Amen! In the Name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.