Missionary Awareness
Awakening and promoting missionary awareness among the People of God and within local Churches.
Pontifical Mission Society · 1822
Propagation
of the Faith
Awakening missionary awareness and inviting every member of the Church to participate through prayer, sacrifice and generosity.
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Founder
Blessed Pauline Marie Jaricot
The Beginning
A missionary movement born in Lyon
The Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith was established by Pauline Marie Jaricot in Lyon, France, in 1822.
Pauline became deeply conscious of the needs of missionaries and missionary communities. She gathered friends and encouraged a simple but powerful form of missionary cooperation: prayer joined with regular personal sacrifice and financial support for the missions.
The movement encouraged the faithful to see themselves as part of the missionary work of the whole Church rather than as distant observers of it.
The Mission
Prayer. Awareness. Sharing.
Prayer
Encouraging the faithful to accompany the Church's missionary work through prayer and spiritual solidarity.
Sharing
Sharing personal and material resources in support of evangelization and the needs of missionary Churches.
Our Mission in Sri Lanka
Propagation of the Faith in Sri Lanka
The Society is established in Sri Lanka as part of the worldwide missionary work of the Church.
A major expression of its mission is the annual celebration of World Mission Sunday, together with programmes that encourage missionary awareness and cooperation among the faithful.
According to the PMS Sri Lanka handbook, missionary contributions associated with this work help respond to diocesan needs, including catechetical work, special diocesan projects and pastoral communication.
Worldwide Mission
Discover the International Society
Learn more about its history and worldwide mission through the international Pontifical Mission Societies.