For all missionaries

Speaker: José Maria Calderon

The voice of the Pope

You know your proclamation of the Gospel is not a synonym of proselytism; it is a dynamic that brings you to be close to others to share the gift received, an encounter of love that changed your life and led you to choose to consecrate your life to the Lord Jesus, Gospel for life and the salvation of the world. It is always with him, through him and in him that the mission is lived. So I encourage you to keep your gaze fixed on Jesus Christ, so as never to forget that the true missionary is a disciple above all. Have at heart to cultivate this special bond that unites you to the Lord, by listening to his Word, celebrating the Sacraments and serving God's people, so that your words and your actions manifest his presence, his merciful love, his compassion to those to whom the Spirit sends you and leads you. May the celebration of your jubilee help you become "nomads for the Gospel", men and women who are not afraid to go to the deserts of this world and seek together ways to lead their brothers and sisters to the oasis which is the Lord, so that the living water of his love will quench all their thirsts.

(SPEECH OF POPE FRANCIS TO THE SOCIETY OF MISSIONARIES OF AFRICA, AND TO THE CONGREGATION OF THE MISSIONARY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF AFRICA - February 8, 2019)

I pray

Our Father
Hail Mary
The prayer of St. John Paul II to Our Lady of Guadalupe: click below on the orange button "I pray" to see the text.

My concrete action

I talk to one person this week about Jesus.

My invitation to prayer

I bear witness to my part in this Hozana prayer community by sharing this video around me (via Whatsapp, Facebook, etc...)

Community prayer

John Paul II's Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe

O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the True God and Mother of the Church! You, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection; hear the prayer that we address to you with filial trust, and present it to your Son Jesus, our sole Redeemer. Mother of mercy, Teacher of hidden and silent sacrifice, to you, who come to meet us sinners, we dedicate on this day all our being and all our love. We also dedicate to you our life, our work, our joys, our infirmities and our sorrows. Grant peace, justice, and prosperity to our people; for we entrust to your care all that we have and all that we are, Our Lady and Mother. We wish to be entirely yours and to walk with you along the way of complete faithfulness to Jesus Christ in His Church: hold us always with your loving hand. Virgin of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas, we pray to you for all the bishops, that they may lead the faithful along paths of intense Christian life, of love and humble service of God and souls. Contemplate this immense harvest, and intercede with the Lord that he may instill a hunger for holiness in the whole People of God, and grant abundant vocations of priests and religious, strong in the faith and zealous dispensers of God's mysteries. Grant to our homes the grace of loving and respecting life in its beginnings, with the same love with which you conceived in your womb the life of the Son of God. Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Fair Love, protect our families, so that they may always be united, and bless the upbringing of our children. Our hope, look upon us with compassion, teach us to go continually to Jesus and, if we fall, help us to rise again, to return to him, by means of the confession of our faults and sins in the Sacrament of Penance, which gives peace to the soul. We beg you to grant us a great love for all the holy Sacraments, which are, as it were, the signs that your Son left us on earth. Thus, most holy Mother, with the peace of God in our conscience, with our hearts free from evil and hatred, we will be able to bring to all true joy and true peace, which come to us from your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who with God the Father and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns for ever and ever. Amen.

Thank you! 55 people prayed

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone. Col 4:6