Mission

Adrianna, Sofi, and Giuli have a conversation about mission. What is the communal task entrusted to the baptized? What does it look like to live our individual responsibility for the glory of Christ? How does God’s initiative of mercy enable us to embrace the slightest fragment of truth or goodness wherever we find it? //

Our media recommendation is The Universal Call to Holiness, a relief in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC (virtual tour). And our monthly challenge is to reflect on the apocryphal story of Jesus and the dead dog (cited on page 117 of this PDF), and to ask, in whatever situation of death or emptiness comes to mind, to recognize and embrace the good present there as Christ does.  //

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Other resources we mention:

• An excerpt from Generating Traces in the History of the World on mission and ecumenism 
• The video The Faith of Fr. Giussani
• A speech by Pope Pius XII cited in Pope St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation Christifidelis laici 
• Bishop Erik Varden’s April 27 interview in The Pillar on the conclave 
• Fr. Luigi Giussani’s letters to the first missionaries from Communion & Liberation to Brazil
• The Ways of the Cross organized by Communion & Liberation throughout the USA
• Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation Evangelii gaudium 
• Bishop Erik Varden’s recent talk on “Living with Wounds” at the University of Notre Dame 
• The story of Elvira Parravicini’s work in neonatal palliative care
• Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church //

Our theme music is Nich Lampson’s “Dolphin Kicks.”