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New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 49, 9 December 1925, Page 36

What has it Meant to You ? e V Address all communications to— ' THE REV. R. HAYES, • FAR FAST OFFICE. END OX, VICTORIA, I lie year 1925 will loom big in the annals of the Church. Notable history has been made before our eyes. The great aims of Holy Year and Missionary Year have been nobly accomplished. It lias been a gigantic success. But what has it meant to you? Missionary Year is a trumpet call. Has it reached your heart and aroused it for the splendid cause —the Foreign Missions? Or is your work for souls to be merely what it has been hitherto —a sleep and a forgetting? If the salvation of the pagan world sti makes no appeal to you, Missionary Year has been a failure so far as you are concerned. It was inaugurated by the Holy Father “as the best way of making the missionary work better known to and better loved by good Catholics.” There is still time to wake your slumbering zeal. You have a -work to do for the spread of your Faith. Start now. Give o your spiritual wealth to the famished pagan souls—pray for them. Give of your worldly goods, too. Don’t let the Missions suffer on that account. No sum is too small and none too large for this “most Divine of all Divine works.” I lie year 1925 will loom big in the annals of the Church. Notable history has been made before our eyes. The great aims of Holy Year and Missionary Year have been nobly accomplished. It has been a gigantic success. But what has it meant to you? Missionary Year is a trumpet call. Has it reached your heart and aroused it for the splendid cause —the Foreign Missions'? Or is your work for souls to be merely what it has been hitherto—a sleep and a forgetting? [j If the salvation of the pagan world sti makes no appeal to you, Missionary Year has been a failure so far as you are concerned. It was inaugurated by the Holy Father “as the best way of making the missionary work better known to and better loved by good Catholics.” There is still time to wake your slumbering zeal. You have a work to do for tlie spread of your Faith. Start now. Give o your spiritual wealth to the famished pagan souls—pray for them. Give of your worldly goods, too. Don’t let the Missions suffer on that account. No sum is too small and none too large for this “most Divine of all Divine works.” , .'.V ~ i <v