Welcome to The Society for the Propagation of the Faith
 The Missionary Church has always reached out to those in need. This year the Church is focusing on St. Paul who called himself the “super-apostle.” While zealously beginning new churches among the Gentiles, Paul asked those congregations to sacrifice and take up a collection to help the believers in Jerusalem who were facing famine and persecution under Roman rule.
Today we follow that same spirit – helping believers who struggle, regardless of national boundaries or ethnic origin. We seek to share as one family with the same Father. We witness to Jesus to the ends of the earth.
World Mission Sunday
World Mission Sunday is a call to local Churches on every continent to rediscover the urgent necessity to face the multiple serious challenges of our times in the light of the Gospel. The Lord addresses the missionary call to every baptized Christian. Established Churches have consistently supplied material means, priests, religious and lay believers for service in overseas missions. This has benefited not only the struggling mission Church, but also those who shared and served. Today, considering the crisis of the family, the decreasing number of vocations coupled with the progressive aging of clergy and religious, and questionable financial security, there is danger of looking with less hope to the future and slackening in missionary endeavor. For precisely these reasons it is time to show our confidence in God who accomplishes his plan of salvation.
Newly evangelized Churches are also called to mission. Many young dioceses are rich with great numbers of seminarians and religious which they exchange as gifts to the traditional, established churches. World Mission Sunday raises the awareness of the universal nature of Christ’s call to spread his Kingdom to the ends of the earth. "The Church is missionary by her very nature," John Paul II writes in his Encyclical Redemptoris Missio. “For Christ's mandate is not something contingent or external, but reaches the very heart of the Church. It follows that the universal Church and each inpidual church is sent forth to the nations.”
 This special collection provides regular annual assistance to about 1,100 mission dioceses in Africa, Asia, and remote parts of South America to help support pastoral and evangelizing programs, catechists and catechetical work, the building of churches and chapels, the work of Religious Communities in health care and education, and communication and transportation needs. This fund is distributed in its entirety each year to ensure that the poor of the Missions receive help and the hope that comes from knowing the love of Jesus Christ.
- Typical church in Sierra Leone (country in West Africa)
Other ways we can help
Mass cards: Offer the gift of Eucharist for your family, friends, and loved ones. Your donation becomes a stipend for a missionary priest to celebrate the mass. In mission areas where the poor cannot pay their priest a salary, the mass stipend becomes his means of living and providing services in the parish. “Greeting cards” acknowledging the prayers are available through the Missions Office. E-mail Lincoln Nguyen at
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or call (714) 282-3030 to arrange for cards.
Calendars for monthly donation: Pledge to support the missions on a monthly basis. We will gladly send you a calendar of pledge envelopes for your convenience. Provide evangelization to stir the gift of faith in the lives of those who have no one but God to rely on. Every month will become Christmas – bringing Jesus to those becoming aware of him for the first time.
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