CATECHETICAL SUNDAY will be celebrated nationally on October 1, with the theme “Missionary Disciples in the Vineyard of the Lord”. Pope Francis exhorts us that: Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she has encountered the love of God in Christ Jesus: we no longer say that we are “disciples” and “missionaries”, but rather that we are always “missionary
disciples”. (Evangelii Gaudium, no. 120)