Gaborone, 19 October, 2020 / 8:05 pm (ACI Africa).
As Catholics globally marked World Mission Sunday on October 18, a Bishop in Botswana has reminded all the baptized in the Southern African nation that they can still be missionaries in the comfort of their home countries.
“I notice that some corners of our country have not yet received the good news. They need you and me to go to them sharing the gospel of love, thus giving them hope,” Bishop Frank Nubuasah of Botswana’s Gaborone Diocese says in a Sunday, October 18 reflection seen by ACI Africa.
He adds, “You do not have to leave home to a distant country to be a missionary. You can pray for those who do and support the work they do according to your means.”
The Bishop, a member of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD) explained, “Being a missionary from home is focusing on the mission and adopting a parish or country as your mission field.”
“All are apostles, all are sent, all are missionaries,” Bishop Nubuasah said in the October 18 reflection and added, “Mission today is in our hands. We have to continually bring the good news to all corners of our world.”