Last Sunday, October 18, the Church celebrated Missions Day. On this day, the Christians are invited to reflect on and understand how they can be missionaries in the environment they live in. On this day too, we are invited to think about the Church in Third World Countries.
For Missions Week, the Missions Group within the Seminary Community organizes a number of activities. In this way, the seminarians too can embrace the call to be missionaries. The theme for this year was: Faith + Charity = Missions. Every day, between Tuesday and Saturday, October 13 to 17, special prayers were said for the missions of each continent. We could appreciate the fact that besides the many nuns and lay missionaries who serve the missions, there are still more than 60 priests and monks who are working in parishes abroad.
During this year, in the morning of every third Thursday of the month, the Seminary community joins the Poor Clares at Nazaret, their monastery at Victoria. We recite the Lauds and then we celebrate Mass. Thursday, October 15, was our first Thursday at Nazaret. We celebrated the feast of St Therese of Avila and then we participated in the Mass led by His Excellency Mgr George Bugeja, whom the Missions Group had invited to share his missionary experiences with us.
In the afternoon of the same Thursday, the Missions Group paid a visit to the Minor Seminary. Members of the group delivered a message about the missions to all the students of the school. It was a visit worth remembering.
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