Mission possible! A reflection on Mission Sunday
I remember after my first Religious Profession being asked by our then Superior General where I saw myself in five years and I responded that I was open to ‘be a missionary’ , to go wherever I was needed, even to the new foundation which was being considered at that time in a particularly cold climate! However, she was quick to assure me that my mission was in the ‘green fields of Ireland!’ I had just spent four years in Italy and whilst the mission at that time was in Ireland, it would later bring me to other countries – Poland, Vatican City, Italy again and then Canada. During those years abroad from Ireland, I never really saw myself as a missionary, just living in a different country carrying out the ministry associated with our charism as Disciples. And yet here I am, 30 years later, a religious, and not a ‘missionary’! Or am I? So what’s that difference, you may ask? What makes a missionary a missionary? When are we ‘on mission’ or ‘on the missions’? One of the great doc
