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 Catholic Missions In Canada
E-Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 11: November 2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Greetings!
Missions: Then and Now
By FR. PHILIP KENNEDY, PRESIDENT
Our magazine writers and those who make submissions to our publications have a good sense of what mission works were like long ago, and what missions are like now. That makes our magazine a kind of ongoing history of Christian faith over the period of a century or more, and what the beginnings of Catholic evangelization were like then compared to the present efforts at spreading God's Word.
Our website www.cmic.info helps to give a picture of missionaries and their travails over the many years of growth. From the struggles of the Grey Nuns and the Oblate Fathers and their loving outreach to native peoples and non-natives alike, we have many images of faith-filled self-giving revealed to us. But the current stories of priests in the Arctic, in Labrador, and in the Northwest Territories, and of other missionaries in diverse places, getting around by snowmobiles, small planes, pick-up trucks, and sea-craft, all show a modern face to the same evangelical endeavours that the pioneers struggled with long ago. Catholic Missions In Canada assists such mission work still, and will continue to do so as long as we are needed.
Faithfully yours,
(Rev.) Philip Kennedy President
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