The Rosary is a special set of prayers to God that help us to remember, reflect and meditate the most important events in the lives of Mary and Jesus.

In 1951, the now Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen created the World Mission Rosary.  Each decade of the World Mission Rosary represents a different area of the world where missionaries continue to share the Good News of Jesus.

GREEN symbolizes and forests and grasslands of AFRICA. 

BLUE is for the ocean surrounding the Islands of the Pacific. 

WHITE symbolizes EUROPE, home of the Holy Father, shepherd of the world.

RED shows the fire of faith that brought the first missionaries to the AMERICAS, and:

YELLOW, is for the morning light of the EAST, symbolizing ASIA. 

To pray the World Mission Rosary, reflect on each area of the world according to the particular color bead at the time you announce each mystery.

When you have completed the World Mission Rosary, you have given the World a big hug!

• 1843 – MCA founded by Bishop Charles de Forbin Johnson in France.
• 1836 – HCA established in the United States, first in New Orleans, and then in Baltimore.
• 1916 – HCA Christmas Seals, the oldest religious seals of their kind, are first distributed
•            to benefit children in need. What is the World Mission Rosary?
• 1922 – HCA elevated to Pontifical status by Pope Pius XI.
• 1950 – Holy Childhood Day established by Pope Pius XII as the First Friday in October.
• 2002 – The United States HCA National Office moves from Washington D.C to New York joining with
• The Society for the Propagation of the Faith, Society of St. Peter, the Apostle and Missionary Union of Priests and Religious uniting all for mission societies as ONE FAMILY IN MISSION.
• 2012 – Holy Childhood Association becomes Missionary Childhood Association (MCA) which   emphasizes the missionary nature of our work and brings us into alignment with MCA worldwide.                                                               

• MCA strengthens relationship with God                                                              

• Reinforces baptisimal human responsibility to share The Faith

• Responds to the immediate needs of children in developing countries

We have Paterson Foreign Missionaries who, majority of them, were born and grew up in our Diocese but are now members of a Religious Order or Community and are now in foreign lands to propagate our faith in the remotest areas of the world where water, food and shelter are lacking and where war, diseases and other calamites are experienced. Through the MCP fund, our Bishop sends each of them a Christmas check as an appreciation and support to their foreign missions.  They are as follows:

1. Sr. Lois Ann Richardi, CSFN – Australia
2. Rev. Damien Milliken, OSB – Tanzania
3. Rev. Henry Bonetti, SDB –Korea
4. Rev. Andrew Healey, SSC – Philippines
5. Sr. Margaret Ann O’Neill, SC – El Salvador
6. Sr. Virginia Bickford – Kenya
7. Rev. Joseph Healey – Kenya

Sr. Virginia Bickford in Kenya 

Rev. Henry Bonetti now stationed in Korea

1. The Missionary Childhood Association expresses their missionary commitment by offering their prayers, personal sacrifices and financial support for the work of the Church in the missions. It aims to instill the Universal Missionary spirit of prayer and sacrifice among our Catholic schools and parishes’ CCD. Its mission according to the mandate is to educate U.S children about the lives of their brothers and sisters in developing countries and to encourage participation in programs that raise funds for young people in need that is why it is also called “Children Helping Children.” Mission is not to be confused with charity, as commendable and important as the latter is, mission is Evangelization, global outreach and changing lives of others through Jesus’ teachings.

MCA offers the following programs for school and parishes:

Materials from the Diocesan Mission Office assist educators in teaching children about the realities of the developing world through stories, activities and prayers.  Principals, teachers and catechists are encouraged to use whatever MCA resources are available that best fit into their school or parish. 

1. Advent and Lent Programs – MCA ID Cards are available to children who pray for the poor children around the world and offer their personal sacrifice through the Advent/lent boxes. With Leaders’ Guide for each season, mite boxes are used to collect offerings for the poor and vulnerable children half the world away.

2. A World Mission Rosary and prayer cards are available for every child.

3. “Holy Buckets” Advent Catechesis

4. National MCA Christmas Art work Contest – Winners are selected and their artwork will be available as e-greetings on www.MCAKids.org and will be displayed at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. during Advent and through the Christmas season.

5. “It’s Our World” Newsletter – given free every Fall/Advent and Spring/Lent when requested.

6. Prayer and Penny Week for the Missions – with leader’s guide.

7. Recognition – Schools and parishes with the highest per capita donations are awarded a certificate and Plaque of Appreciation  given every World Mission Sunday Mass celebration.

8. Links to other sites offering mission-related activities and stories are free.

To learn more about MCA programs or place an order for materials, please visit:

www.MCAKids.org

New to teaching about mission?    

Download Mission Education Guidelines for teachers and catechists at: www.onefamilyinmission.org  

Missionary visits in schools offer the opportunity to hear personal witness from missionaries who have served in various countries.  Students are challenged to fulfill their baptismal call to mission by invigorating their mission identity, learning about global trends in mission and offering prayerful and sacrificial support. 
Request for a missionary visit in schools and parishes are gladly arranged when requested.

No matter how small, by the end of the month or the season in which they are collected, monies have to be mailed in to the Diocesan Mission Office at:
777 Valley Road, Clifton, NJ 07013. 
Memo: For MCA  

We always appreciate extra information, such as what activities your students did to raise MCA funds; your stories and photos can also be published at our weekly Diocesan Newsletter, The Beacon.  The Mission Office will always acknowledge your generosity through a Thank You Letter from the Director or Mission Coordinator.       

Checks received are recorded and mailed to the National Office of the Pontifical Mission Societies at:
                                                      70 West 36th Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10016
          Email address: [email protected]                         Website: https://onefamilyinmission.org
                         Phone: (212) 563-8700                                                              Fax: (212) 563-8725
 

Some children work in groups sponsoring walkathons, dress down days, raffles, or other creative events. Some children make personal sacrifices by sending money that they received for chores or babysitting; others share their allowances or birthday gift money.  Contributions should come from the student’s own sacrifice of time, talent and treasure.  MCA offers mite boxes to students to encourage a spirit of sacrifice, but fundraising component is secondary to catechesis and must always be combined with formation.  Fundraising without faith formation does little to form life-long missionaries.

Contributions to MCA are allocated to mission dioceses throughout the world according to need.  Once each year, national directors of the world’s Pontifical Mission Societies meet in Rome to review requests for funding from mission dioceses throughout the world. 
This system of allocating funds helps to ensure that aid is distributed fairly and that those who are most desperately in need receive enough support.
 

2. The Society for the Propagation of the Faith is the Holy Father’s chief missionary arm providing resources for more than 1,150 mission dioceses the world over.  Donors from around our diocese send monetary gifts to support various mission works. 

Another means of spiritual and financial support of the Church’s home and foreign missions is the MCP or the Missionary Cooperation Plan.

• The Missionary Cooperation Plan – (MCP) educates the people of our diocese to the missionary work of the church and provides financial aid to mission-sending communities, societies and dioceses around the world.  The mission office coordinates requests for funding from various missions and approves their representatives or contact person to come to our diocese to give a mission appeal talk in the parishes assigned to them.
  
  The following countries are approved to come to the Diocese of Paterson for a Mission Appeal.
  1. Argentina
  2. Bangladesh
  3. Cameroon
  4. India
  5. Nigeria
  6. Philippines
  7. Tanzania
  8. Uganda

HOW TO APPLY FOR MCP:
Letter of Application should be mailed to:         Mission Director
                                                                                   Paterson Diocesan Center
                                                                                   777 Valley Road, Clifton NJ 07013
A Letter of Endorsement for the contact person must be attached to the application with the proper seal of the Bishop, Superior of the Archdiocese/Diocese or religious order/community.

Deadline of Submission: November 30 of the current year.

We do not accept application by email.  The USA contact person endorsed by the Bishop/Superior, especially if the application is from outside the United States of America, should have a USA Address, phone number and email address for ease of communication.  Processing is as follows:

• Before the end of January, MCP Survey Form will be emailed or faxed to the applicant’s contact person.

• By mid-March, the MCP Approval Form will be mailed to the approved Archdiocese/Diocese/community/Order or Non-Profit Group with the date of their Mission Appeals in our Diocese.  Meeting the deadlines is a very important factor.

• The MCP Regulations will be enclosed in the Approval Form and must be read and understood well by the contact person and speakers.  For any question about this matter, Please call or email: [email protected]      (973) 777-8818 Extension 256

• Dates are given to make sure that air fare reservations are made ahead of time.  Airport should be Newark International Airport (ewr).  These dates were given by the pastors and are fixed.

• Name and location of parishes will be given only when the original Letters of Suitability of all the speakers, duly signed by the Bishop/Superior or head of the non-profit organization (with the proper seal) are mailed to the Mission Office on or before the deadline.

• Mission Appeal in the Diocese of Paterson is strictly done during the month of August only.

1. Angola                                                                          11. Italy               
2. Belize                                                                            12. Korea
3. Canada                                                                         13. Madagascar
4. China                                                                             14. Namibia
5. Columbia                                                                     15. Panama                                                       
6. Ecuador                                                                        16. Papua New Guinea
7. El Salvador                                                                  17. Peru
8. Ethiopia                                                                        18. Romania
9. Guatemala                                                                  19. Rwanda                       
10. Honduras                                                                    20. Venezuela

WE DO OUR BEST AND GOD WILL DO THE REST

Two MCP checks are mailed to the contact person sometime between October and January of the following year.  We do not mail checks nor wire transfer outside USA.  Each approved missionary group should have a dollar account here in the United States or in their native country or they will not qualify.

 A EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION FOR ALL THE WORLD

World Mission Sunday - is a day set aside for Catholics worldwide to recommit themselves to the Church’s missionary activity through prayer and sacrifice. It is celebrated on the next-to-the last Sunday in October each year around the Catholic Church World.

The offerings collected on World Mission Sunday are destined for a common fund of solidarity distributed, in the Pope’s name, by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith among the missions and missionaries of the entire world.   
           
Mission dioceses, about 1,100 at this time, receive regular annual assistance from the funds collected.  In addition, these mission dioceses submit requests to the Congregation for the Evangelization of People (in Rome) for assistance for catechetical programs, seminaries, work of Religious Communities, for communication and transportation needs and for building chapels, churches, orphanages and schools. These needs are matched with the funds gathered in each year.  The world’s national directors of the SPOF vote on these requests, matching the funds available with the greatest needs.  These funds are then distributed, in their entirety, to the mission dioceses throughout the world.     

3. The Society of St. Peter, the Apostle or Summer Appeal – aims to support the ducation of seminarians in the third world countries.  Every year the needs of the Catholic Church in the missions grow – as new dioceses are formed, as new seminaries are opened because of the growing number of young men hearing Christ’s call to follow Him as priest, as areas devastated by war or natural disaster are built and as other areas, long suppressed are opening up to hear the message of Christ and His Church. That is why involvement and commitment of Catholics from around the word is urgently needed.  Offerings from Catholics in the United States on World Mission Sunday and throughout the year are combined with the offerings to the Propagation of the Faith worldwide. 

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Society for the Propagation of the Faith
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