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24.01.2022 MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2020 Do not be afraid, do not yield to fear: This is the message of hope. It is addressed to us, todayJesus’ hope is different. He plants in our hearts the conviction that God is able to make everything work unto good, because even from the grave He brings life. He, who rolled away the stone that sealed the entrance of the tomb, can also remove the stones in our hearts. He did not abandon us; He visited us and entered into our situations of pain, anguish... and death. His light dispelled the darkness of the tomb: today He wants that light to penetrate even to the darkest corners of our lives. It is encouraging to know that He walks ahead of us in life and in death. He goes before us to Galilee, that is, to the place which for Him and His disciples evoked the idea of daily life, family and work. Jesus wants us to bring hope there, to our everyday life. For the disciples, Galilee was also the place of remembrance, for it was the place where they were first called. Returning to Galilee means remembering that we have been loved and called by God. Today, as pilgrims in search of hope, we cling to you, Risen Jesus. We turn our backs on death and open our hearts to you, for you are Life itself. Pope Francis Journey with the Pope Email from [email protected]

23.01.2022 Here's a message from one of our mission partners in Cambodia. I personally met Puth in Battambang earlier this year and witnessed her amazing character and passion in helping people with disabilities and some of the disadvantaged communities. She leads them to find their strengths and gifts, and use it to create something beautiful to contribute to missionary projects like Oh Battambang Boutique Hotel.

23.01.2022 Easter message from our National Director, Fr Brian Lucas. #WeAreStillHere

22.01.2022 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2020 Let us try, if we can, to make the best use of this time: let us be generous; let us help those in need in our neighborhood; let us look out for the loneliest people, perhaps by telephone or social networks; let us pray to the Lord for those who are in difficulty in Italy and in the world. Even if we are isolated, thought and spirit can go far with the creativity of love. This is what we need today: the creativity of love. This is what is needed toda...y: the creativity of love. Pope Francis Journey with the Pope From [email protected]

22.01.2022 TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2020 The isolated elderly: solitude and distance. How many elderly there are whose children do not go and visit them in normal times! I remember in Buenos Aires when I visited old people’s homes, I would ask them: And how’s your family? Fine, fine! Do they come? Yes, always! Then the nurse would take me aside and say the children hadn’t been to see them in six months. Solitude and abandonmentdistance. Yet the elderly continues to be our roots. And they ...must speak to the young. This tension between young and old must always be resolved in the encounter with each other. Because the young person is bud and foliage, but without roots they cannot bear fruit. The elderly are the roots. I would say to them, today: I know you feel death is close, and you are afraid, but look elsewhere, remember your children, and do not stop dreaming. This is what God asks of you: to dream (Joel 3:1). What would I say to the young people? Have the courage to look ahead, and to be prophetic. May the dreams of the old correspond to your propheciesalso Joel 3:1. Those who have been impoverished by the crisis are today’s deprived, who are added to the numbers of deprived of all times, men and women whose status is deprived. They have lost everything, or they are going to lose everything. What meaning does deprivation have for me, in the light of the Gospel? It means to enter into the world of the deprived, to understand that he who had, no longer has. What I ask of people is that they take the elderly and the young under their wing, that they take history under the wing, take the deprived under their wing. Pope Francis Journey with the Pope Email from [email protected]

21.01.2022 An amazing painting of Venerable Pauline Jaricot.

19.01.2022 We lost an amazing man with a missionary heart. We pray that his teachings and example lead us to do our part in working with the Holy Spirit and looking only to Jesus as we continue the journey with our missionary church.

16.01.2022 Here's a message from one of our visitors last year, Msgr Thomas Anamooh. #WeAreStillHere

15.01.2022 Happy World Mission Month! The Cairns Diocesan family will foster missionary solidarity in prayer and charity as we celebrate World Mission on October 17-18. Please offer a Hail Mary for missionaries around the world like Bishop Kike in Cambodia. I offer one right here, right now in my mother tongue, the Filipino language -... Aba Ginoong Maria Napupuno ka ng grasya Ang Diyos as sumasaiyo Bukod kang pinagpala Sa babaeng lahat At pinagpala naman ang iyong anak na si Hesus. Santa Maria, ina ng Diyos Ipanalangin mo kaming makasalanan Ngayon at kung kami'y mamamatay. Amen.

15.01.2022 Deacon Tony Moore from Palm Cove shares about joy and hope and a beautiful message to our missionaries.

15.01.2022 TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2020 If you allow me, I would like to have a conversation with you for a few moments, in this time of difficulty and of suffering. I can imagine you in your families, living an unusual life to avoid contagion. I am thinking of the liveliness of children and young people, who cannot go out, attend school, live their lives. I have in my heart all the families, especially those who have a loved one who is sick or who have unfortunately experienced mourning due... to the coronavirus or other causes. These days I often think about people who are alone, and for whom it is more difficult to face these moments. Above all, I think of the elderly, who are very dear to me. It is a difficult time for everyone. For many, very difficult. The Pope knows this and, with these words, he wants to tell everyone of his closeness and affection. Pope Francis Journey with the Pope from [email protected]

15.01.2022 Our very own Tom and Helen Tartellin from Townsville Diocese joins us in #WeAreStillHere

15.01.2022 Good morning, everyone! As we approach to celebrate World Mission Sunday this weekend, may we discover God in the villages wherever God sends us - at home, in school, in our parish community and beyond - just as Bishop Kike meets God in the villages of Cambodia. Note: Watt is a survivor from civil war whom I met when I was visiting our missionary projects in Cambodia. Him and his family is very grateful to the support that they receive from Catholic Mission. This gratitude is what we would like to share with you as you welcome us and our mission stories in your time of prayer. Enjoy your meeting with God! :-)

14.01.2022 FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2020 For weeks now it has been evening. Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken over our lives, filling everything with a deafening silence and a distressing void, that stops everything as it passes by; we feel it in the air, we notice in people’s gestures, their glances give them away. We find ourselves afraid and lost. Like the disciples in the Gospel we were caught off guard by an unexpected, turbulent storm.... We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other. On this boat are all of us. Just like those disciples, who spoke anxiously with one voice, saying 'We are perishing' (Mark 4:38), so we too have realized that we cannot go on thinking of ourselves, but only together can we do this. Pope Francis (to receive daily messages, please email Missio USA)

12.01.2022 MONDAY, APRIL 27, 2020 Born from Above is to be born with the strength of the Holy Spirit. We cannot take the Holy Spirit for ourselves; we can only let Him transform us. And our docility opens the door to the Holy Spirit: it is He who does the change, the transformation this rebirth from Above. It’s Jesus’ promise to send the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is able to do wonders, things of which we can’t even think. It’s true that immediately after problems would begin, bu...t the Lord makes us see up to where we can reach if we are open to the Holy Spirit, if we are docile. Pope Francis Daily Email from [email protected] (Photograph from Nigeria)

11.01.2022 We pause to offer the red decade of the World Mission Rosary today for the missionary activities offered in the past and continue to offer in the present and future by our global missionaries to share the Love of God in The Americas.

10.01.2022 MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2020 Dear brothers and sisters: let us put the Living One at the centre of our lives. Let us ask for the grace not to be carried by the current, the sea of our problems; the grace not to run aground on the shoals of sin or crash on the reefs of discouragement and fear. Let us seek him in all things and above all things. With him, we will rise again. Pope Francis ... Daily email from Missio USA (Photograph from Kenya)

09.01.2022 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2020 Let us pray together for expectant women who will become mothers and who ask themselves: "What type of world will my child live in?" May the Lord give them the courage and confidence that it will certainly be a different world, but also one which the Lord will love tremendously. Pope Francis ... Daily email from [email protected] Photograph from Burkina Faso

08.01.2022 Message and prayers from Sr Stan and children from Nazareth Home for God's Children. #WeAreStillHere

08.01.2022 Messages from our missionaries, the front liners for those who do not have access to health care services. #WeAreStillHere

07.01.2022 #WeAreStillHere Our missionaries are the front liners for those who do not have ready access to health care services due to location and other economic difficulties. We pray in solidarity with them and acknowledge that we are together in this journey. We are still here for you and we are still here for them.

07.01.2022 MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2020 It is the life in the Spirit that can redeem, value and demonstrate how our lives are woven together and sustained by ordinary people often forgotten people who do not appear in newspaper and magazine headlines nor on the grand catwalks of the latest show, but who without any doubt are in these very days writing the decisive events of our time: doctors, nurses, supermarket employees, cleaners, caregivers, providers of transport, law and order forces..., volunteers, priests, religious men and women and so very many others who have understood that no one reaches salvation by themselves. In the face of so much suffering, where the authentic development of our peoples is assessed, we experience the priestly prayer of Jesus: ‘That they may all be one’ (Jn 17:21). How many people every day are exercising patience and offering hope, taking care to sow not panic but a shared responsibility. How many fathers, mothers, grandparents and teachers are showing our children, in small everyday gestures, how to face up to and navigate a crisis by adjusting their routines, lifting their gaze and fostering prayer. How many are praying, offering and interceding for the good of all. Prayer and quiet service: these are our victorious weapons. Pope Francis Journey with the Pope [email protected]

05.01.2022 #WeAreStillHere For you and for all. Have a happy and holy Easter!

04.01.2022 THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020 ~ HOLY THURSDAY We will celebrate Holy Week in a truly unusual way, which manifests and sums up the message of the Gospel, that of God’s boundless love. And in the silence of our cities, the Easter Gospel will resound. The Apostle Paul says: And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him Who died for them and was raised again (2 Cor 5:15). In the risen Jesus, life conquered death. This Paschal faith nour...ishes our hope. It is the hope of a better time, in which we can be better, finally freed from evil and from this pandemic. It is a hope: hope does not disappoint; it is not an illusion, it is a hope. Pope Francis Journey with the Pope Email from [email protected]

01.01.2022 One of our mission partner in Cambodia, Bishop Kike appeared in a health message photo created by a Buddhist university in Battambang, encouraging students to wash their hands. During this times of uncertainty, we keep in our thoughts and prayers, all the front liners, including our faithful missionaries, who serve the most vulnerable in the society.