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Page 1 of 5 Venerable Archbishop Sheen and the Missions – on Television
A red sweater, a manila folder, a small notebook. These were three items – all connected to Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen – that National Director Father Andrew Small, OMI presented to Father Andrew Apostoli, CFR when he visited with him on EWTN’s Sunday Night Prime. The television program’s initial broadcast was April 28; a video copy of the show, “Missionaries in the Year of Faith,” may be viewed at the show’s website.
In addition to discussing the very missionary heart of Archbishop Sheen, his predecessor as National Director (1950 to 1966), Father Andrew told Father Apostoli about his recent missionary journeys, about the call through Baptism to be missionary – and the significance of that in this Year of Faith – and about our new “chief missionary,” Pope Francis, who encourages all of us to “embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important…”
The program also affirmed our patron missionary saints, St. Francis Xavier and St. Thérèse of Liseux, the little flower whose support for the Missions on the home-front in her “little ways” inspires us to support the missions ourselves through prayer and sacrifice.
Pages from Venerable Archbishop Sheen’s notebook during his travels in the missions as national director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith...
We are in prayerful solidarity with the people of Bangladesh who have suffered an unthinkable tragedy, a factory collapse burying 3,000 workers in the outskirts of Dhaka, this weekend. Let us pray for the victims, the survivors, the families, and for the support of the Church in this mission country.
Join us each week to read and reflect, to listen, helping to strengthen and deepen our faith in the Lord and His Church so we may share our faith with the “all the world” – as “missionaries of faith.”
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