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| Fr. Vincent Mwakhwawa National Director of PMC at ECM |
Catholic from all walks of life on Sunday, 11th May, 2014 will celebrate the 51st World Day of prayer for vocations with the theme Vocations, Witness to the truth. Malawi joins the rest of the World in celebrating the day in all the parishes across the country.
In a communiqué signed by the National Director of the Pontifical Missionary Societies, an arm of the Episcopal Conference of Malawi, Fr. Vincent Mwakhwawa challenged Catholic priests in the country to strive in teaching Christians about the importance of vocations in the Church.
According to Fr. Mwakhwawa the day among others involves offering special prayers for vocations and youth or the faithful activities that promote vocations.
“Dear Priests, you are encouraged to prepare very well for the celebration of Vocation Sunday. For a meaningful celebration of the day, you may do the following: teaching the people about importance of vocations in the Church; Offering special prayers for vocations; preparing the Liturgy for the Vocation Sunday; Organizing recollection for the youth on vocation and other activities with the youth or all the faithful in order to promote Vocations,” advised Fr. Mwakhwawa through a letter to all the Priests in the country.
Some of the Vocations recognized by the Catholic Church includes; Priesthood, Single life, Marriage life and Religious Life.
On this Vocations Sunday, the money collection in all the Catholic prayer-gatherings is meant to help in the training of future priests, sisters, and brothers in the whole world. The money will be collected from all outstations, Small Christian Communities or prayer houses in all parishes and then sent to the dioceses.
The dioceses then send the money to the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Society (PMS). The PMS National Director eventually sends the money to Rome, to the Holy Father in the Solidarity Fund. This collection is one of the five Universal collections in the Catholic Church which shows the solidarity or oneness in the Catholic Church – cooperation and sharing the material and spiritual resources in the mission of spreading the Gospel. The Catholic Church believes in solidarity of all the Catholics for a common mission of spreading the message of salvation. The solidarity is shown is praying, teaching and offering money for the good of the Church’s mission of evangelization.
Source: ECM