10/17/2026
🌎 This Sunday, October 18, Catholics around the world will celebrate World Mission Sunday, a day set aside for the universal Church to pray for and support the missions. This year marks the 100th Anniversary of the observance, first established by Pope Pius XI, and Pope Leo XIV has chosen the theme "One in Christ, United in Mission."
As Bishop Rev. Michael W. Fisher writes: "We are all called to be a part of this mission work. In his last words before ascending to heaven, Jesus told us 'Go therefore and make disciples of all nations' (Mt 28:19), and for 2,000 years the Church has been at work in this task. And we are far from finished.
The second collection we take up on World Mission Sunday helps extend the Church's missionary work to places where the Church barely exists, where the Gospel has never been heard before, and where the Church is too young, too persecuted, or too poor to sustain herself in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Oceania, and the Middle East."
Please keep all missionaries in your daily prayers, and give generously to our second collection for the World Mission Sunday!
Learn more & donate online: https://pontificalmissions.org/wms-2026
