Let the Year of the Mission, which is under way in Lisieux, France, "spread into all baptised people their missionary feeling, through the prayer, the testimony of life and the Christian commitment in all its forms, so that every devotee may be a missionary where they live and so that callings may be born for announcing the Gospel to the men who do not know it yet": this is the wish expressed by the Pope in the letter sent on the Day of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus, the Patron Saint of the Missions, to the Prefect of the Congregation for the evangelisation of peoples, card. Ivan Dias. 2007 is the year that the French bishops have dedicated to the mission, "to remind all Christian communities he states and all the devotees that come on a pilgrimage to the places of Saint Theresa of Lisieux, in the footsteps of the first Christian communities, that they should be endlessly concerned with the mission". (segue)
