Vatican City, Oct 19, 2018 / 08:44 am
As the Church prepares to celebrate World Mission Day on Sunday, the head of the Vatican's evangelization congregation said the timing of the day with the youth synod provides an opportunity to remind young people they too are called to spread the Gospel.
"Together with young people, we bring the Gospel to everyone," is the theme of Pope Francis' message for the 92nd World Mission Day, to be celebrated Oct. 21.
The Holy Father's message for this day falls during the "synod for young people with young people," Cardinal Fernando Filoni said at a press conference Oct. 19. "Therefore, together with the young we bring the Gospel to everyone."
Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Filoni emphasized a concept found in Lumen gentium: that every baptized person, by virtue of his or her baptism, has the mission to evangelize and to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ – and this applies also to the young, he said.