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'MISSIONARY PELO MUNDO VAI Afore "
" Parties, Missionary, and take off! "

This phrase, inspired by the Gospel (Luke 5:4) seems an expression of another era, when starting as missionaries was considered an eye-catching. But today there are more missionaries? The "mission ad intra" has somehow replaced the "mission ad gentes? And what does the word "missionary"? To be missionaries of the Gospel is to be publicists or the church or your church group or movement? What are the places of mission? And above all: how the missionary experience can help to renew the life of the Church?

has 2 experiences "missionaries" who are helping me to understand something about the missionary spirit of the Christian life here in our parish of Holy Trinity in the outskirts of Sao Luis, State of Maranhão, Brazil.

STRUCTURED MISSIONARY EXPERIENCE: During Lent, in May, the month of October and during Advent some people in the parish or church groups organize meetings families (possibly the same between 4 times a year to provide continuity). The meetings have themes and in different ways (in Lent on the theme of the annual Fraternity Campaign of the pastoral year, in May: Celebration of the Holy Rosary in October and missionary themes in Advent: Christmas celebrations) but mark the phases a journey of the first announcement and create a link between the host families, neighbors and leaders of the community. It is important to choose well the beginning families: families are usually, although not normally participate in parish life, welcome the proposal to availability.

occasional missionary experience: Sunday, August 29, in the afternoon, about 80 people from the parish, divided into groups of 2 or 3, have visited about 300 families in an area identified by the Parish Pastoral Council. It was just a visit to mutual understanding, exchange of experiences of life and faith (here we are many and various Christian denominations) in the district announcing the presence of the Catholic Church with its proposals and initiatives. This was mainly to announce a "closeness" and "solidarity" and even more joyful lives because of faith supported by reason. Eventually we found ourselves in the parish center for a snack, check to groups and a Mass of Thanksgiving with the whole community.

Through these and other experiences we are learning that: • to be missionaries
part of his being a Christian, be baptized and confirmed that it means transforming every day listening to the life and disciples of the Word of God and proclaim by word and deed of love .
• to be missionaries in and out a little more from our homes, from the circle of people we know and meet the surprises of God that always comes before us.
• to be missionaries is not the task of some specialists, even though it requires serious preparation, but it is the task of the Church as a whole, priests, religious, lay people, families, groups and movements, young, elderly and children, healthy and sick, poor and less poor, ...
• to be missionaries also requires the courage to change a little their way of life and ecclesial structures to make the Church more "light".
· the current situation, in every place, requires a strong missionary activity, respectful and courageous, especially placing "in the shoes of the other / Other."
· the temptation to retreat, to continue with habitual mode of thinking to solve problems with solutions of the past, is not a terminal illness, but an illness that you can heal.
• The true missionary, like Jesus, prefers the poor.
· the enthusiasm and the cross are the companions of the mission of Jesus.

Our diocese of Sao Luis is preparing to celebrate 400 years of proclaiming the gospel in these lands (2012) and, in line with the document of Aparecida (the reference document of the Latin American Church for the next few years) which speaks of a "Continental Mission," calls on parishes who wish to celebrate the occasion and the Sante popular missions. From there was born a discussion on what "mission" here today, in our time and our situation and what the most appropriate ways to be missionaries of Jesus. I think this
discussion it will be useful also in Italy and elsewhere, take advantage of the occasion of the missionary month, the month of October.

NEWS MISSION

• We look forward to the new lay missionaries sent by the diocese of Verona here in Sao Luis in continuity with the wonderful experience of family Annecchini who returned to Santa Maria in Stars in the month of July. They will arrive in the coming months, the family of Frank and Damian Frapporti Conati Fumane with his son Isaac, and then Carolina Almar Monteforte and Maria Gobbo of Verona. To them, which will be officially presented to the diocese of Verona Sending Vigil the evening of October 22 in Verona Cathedral, our warm and fraternal "Bem vindos!".
• The month of September in Brazil for the Catholic Church coincides with the month of the Bible, was marked this year for our parish to ecumenical meetings about the parables of Jesus and the book "missionary" of Jonah. They have attended our meetings (with an average of 115 persons) the Reverend of the Anglican Church Fabiano, Franciele the pastor of the Lutheran Church and biblical scholar Martha's Catholic Church.
• Here in Brazil in October this year is also election month with all the hopes, promises, illusions and delusions that they always behind. It's amazing the sale of votes, the persons employed as "fans" for propaganda. People who endorse more candidates from different parties but to gain something. In terms of state of Maranhão, the coalition won the elections for 40 years in charge. Unfortunately, the Maranhão always stands out in the statistics for poverty and lack of social structures. It is easy to convince voters (of which 75% have not completed compulsory education and 15% are completely illiterate) when they hold almost all the media. The Lula government, which has also greatly improved the economic and social situation in Brazil, could not, in a federal system like that of Brazil, take seriously the structural mudanze in our state. But the poor always hope!