{"id":51472,"date":"2026-10-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/?p=51472"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:29:11","slug":"igreja-missionaria-testemunha-de-misericordia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/igreja-missionaria-testemunha-de-misericordia\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionary Church, witness of mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

8th Missionary Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in the early days of the Church's experience, there are so many men and women of all ages and conditions who bear witness to this merciful love. An eloquent sign of God's maternal love is the considerable and growing female presence in the missionary world, alongside the male presence. Women, lay or consecrated \u2013 and today also numerous families \u2013 carry out their missionary vocation in the most varied ways: from the direct proclamation of the Gospel to socio-charitable service. Alongside the evangelizing and sacramental work of missionaries, there are women and families who understand, often more adequately, the problems of people and know how to face them in a timely and sometimes unprecedented way: caring for life, with increased attention focused more on people than on structures, and making use of all human and spiritual resources to build harmony, relationships, peace, solidarity, dialogue, cooperation, and fraternity, both in the area of interpersonal relationships and in the broader area of social and cultural life, and, in particular, in the care of the poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rosary prayer in the street led by laywomen. Photo: LF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In many places, evangelization begins with educational activity, to which missionary work dedicates effort and time, like the merciful vinedresser of the Gospel (cf. Lc<\/em> 13, 7-9; Jo<\/em> 15, 1), with patience to await the fruits after years of slow formation; thus are generated people capable of evangelizing and bringing the Gospel to places where no one would expect to see it realized. The Church can be defined as "mother," even for those who may one day come to faith in Christ. I hope, therefore, that the holy people of God will exercise the maternal service of mercy, which so greatly helps those who do not yet know the Lord to find Him and love Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Jesus' disciples travel the roads of the world, they are asked for that boundless love that tends to apply the same measure of the Lord to everyone; we proclaim the most beautiful and greatest gift He offered us: His life and His love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every people and culture has the right to receive the message of salvation, which is a gift from God for all. And the need for it is redoubled when we consider how many injustices, wars, and humanitarian crises await a solution today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Pope Francis, message for the year 2016)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8\u00ba Dia Mission\u00e1rio Como nos primeiros tempos da experi\u00eancia eclesial, h\u00e1 tantos homens e mulheres de todas as idades e condi\u00e7\u00f5es que d\u00e3o testemunho deste amor de miseric\u00f3rdia. Sinal eloquente do amor materno de Deus \u00e9 uma consider\u00e1vel e crescente presen\u00e7a feminina no mundo mission\u00e1rio, ao lado da presen\u00e7a masculina. As mulheres, leigas ou consagradas […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":51440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[166,82,92],"class_list":["post-51472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-espiritualidade","tag-leigos","tag-missao","tag-missionarios-do-preciosissimo-sangue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51474,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51472\/revisions\/51474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpps.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}