THE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY ROSAY AT CIAM

On Saturday afternoon, on the eve of the 100th World Mission Sunday, just as Leo XIV was being discharged and leaving the Gemelli Polyclinic, prayers for the Church’s mission throughout the world and for the recovery of the Successor of Peter came together during the International Missionary Rosary promoted by the Pontifical Mission Societies. The prayer took place on the terrace of the International Centre for Missionary Animation (CIAM), on the campus of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, overlooking St Peter’s Square.

The Rosary was led by Cardinal Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the missionary Dicastery. At the beginning of this communal time of prayer, he invited everyone present to pray “for the Holy Father Leo XIV, the missionary who became Pope, entrusting his health to the Lord during this time of recovery.” The Cardinal then asked those present to pray for today’s “Ad gentes” missionaries. Quoting a passage from Leo XIV’s message for the 100th World Mission Sunday, Cardinal Tagle recalled that missionaries today, “like Saint Francis Xavier, have left their homeland, their families and every security in order to proclaim the Gospel, bringing Christ and his love to places that are often difficult, marked by poverty, conflict or profound cultural distances.”

The recitation of the Rosary was interspersed with readings from the New Testament and from documents and speeches belonging to the missionary teaching of Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV.

The five decades of Hail Marys were prayed while contemplating the Glorious Mysteries in different languages, including Swahili, Albanian, Tagalog and the Papua New Guinea Pidgin language.

Before the Rosary was recited, a message from Sister Mary Teresa Barron was also read. She was appointed on 8 October as Adjunct Secretary of the missionary Dicastery, with responsibility as President of the Pontifical Mission Societies. In her message, Sister Mary Teresa Barron emphasized that this year’s World Mission Sunday motto (“One in Christ, united in mission”) “reminds us that mission is the beating heart of the Church and the vocation of every baptized person. In communion with Pope Leo XIV, whom we accompany with our prayers, and with missionaries on every continent who bear witness to the Gospel with courage and dedication, today we raise our prayer for the universal Church. As we contemplate the Glorious Mysteries,” the Adjunct Secretary of the missionary Dicastery added, “we ask the Holy Spirit to renew in us apostolic zeal and the ability to build bridges, to listen, to serve, and to proclaim through our lives the faithfulness of God’s love.”

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