Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
The weekend of January 17-18 is the Membership Drive for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith (SPOF). In becoming a member, you make a special commitment to the Church’s mission “to all peoples and nations” by pledging daily prayer and financial help to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Prayer, sacrifice and charity are concrete ways that offer to live a missionary and universal faith. Out of your generosity, the SPOF continues to open the hearts of believers to engage in the vastness of the missionary horizon through spiritual and material support for the proclamation of the Kingdom of God.
During the Membership Drive, let us pray for missionaries everywhere, especially who are sharing Christ’s Gospel message around the globe. The Vatican’s Society for the Propagation of the Faith is the main source of support for the mission dioceses around the world. I am most grateful for your continuing generosity and support for this most important task of the Church. In more than 1,150 mission dioceses worldwide, priests, religious brothers and sisters, and lay catechists rely on the prayers and financial assistance of the members of the Propagation of the Faith.
I invite to you join in prayer and personal sacrifice made to God through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith so that what the Lord accomplished in many missionaries before us, may continue in the Church today.
Grateful for your solidarity with missionaries around the world and your renewed fervor for the Gospel, I remain,
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Earl K. Fernandes
Bishop of Columbus
