Awareness
Deepening missionary awareness among priests, religious and those serving the Church.
Pontifical Mission Society · 1916
Missionary
Union
Forming and strengthening those who animate the missionary life of the Church.
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Founder
Fr. Paolo Manna
The Beginning
“All the Church for all the World”
The Pontifical Missionary Union was founded by Rev. Fr. Paolo Manna in Italy in 1916.
Its purpose was to stimulate missionary awareness among priests and religious and help those entrusted with pastoral leadership understand their responsibility towards the Church's mission.
Missionary formation, spirituality and animation therefore stand at the centre of the Missionary Union.
Our Mission
Forming the Church for mission
Formation
Providing opportunities for missionary formation through seminars, retreats and training.
Animation
Forming leaders who can awaken missionary responsibility throughout the wider Christian community.
Our Mission in Sri Lanka
Strengthening missionary formation
In Sri Lanka, missionary formation and coordination involve the PMS National Office, diocesan directors, clergy, religious and those who animate missionary life within local communities.
The handbook records National Office coordination of formation initiatives, including training connected with clergy, religious, diocesan structures and missionary Animators.
Through such formation and cooperation, missionary awareness can pass from those entrusted with leadership into parishes, families, children and the wider community of faith.
The missionary vision associated with Fr. Paolo Manna:
“All the Church for all the World”
Worldwide Mission