Johannesburg, 04 August, 2022 / 9:03 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) are deliberating on the possibility of establishing a Missionary Commission aimed at creating awareness about “the missionary mandate of all the baptized”.
In a press release shared with ACI Africa Wednesday, August 3, the SACBC Communications Officer says the Missionary Commission that the Catholic Bishops in Botswana, Eswatini, and South Africa are envisaging would be part of SACBC Council for Evangelization.
“This Commission would represent the missionary dimension and concern itself with mission outreach, mission practice and promotion,” Fr. Phuti Makgabo says, adding that the Commission’s “specific aim in the conference would be to create a greater awareness of the missionary mandate of all the baptized and help with the implementation of the SACBC Pastoral plan.”
The Catholic Bishops in the three-nation Conference are deliberation the creation of a Commission that would fall under the SACBC Council for Evangelization, Fr. Makgabo further says in his August 3 statement released on the sidelines of the August 1-5 second Plenary Assembly of SACBC taking place in Mariannhill Diocese.
The envisaged Missionary Commission, the SACBC Communications Officer says, “will somehow develop an environment under which the Pontifical Mission Society (PMS) will also be able to bring out especially the spiritual aspect of the PMS as opposed to only the more known side concerning finances.”