Holy Week Missions 2024: “Given”
At 23 Mission Youth & Family Holy Week Mission sites across the North American Territory, over 2000 missionaries served more than 6000 people, parishes, and communities. How? They lived the Spiritual and Corporal works of mercy in every way possible:
- Catechesis for children
- Spending time with the elderly and homebound
- Serving the homeless on the streets and in shelters
- Praying for the deceased in cemeteries
- Evangelizing and inviting fellow parishioners to Church,
- Approaching people on the streets to ask fro prayer requests
- Planning Easter celebrations in disadvantaged local communities
- Serving and collaborating with local parishes, pastors, and bishops as they prepared for the Holy Triduum
- Visiting addiction treatment centers
- Leading Stations of the Cross, Holy Hours, and even a 7 Church pilgrimage by bus
- Providing, inviting to, and participating in the Sacrament of Confession and the celebration of the Eucharist