World Mission Sunday – the one day in the year when the entire global Church comes together in support of mission – will happen on 19 October 2025.
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For World Mission Day in the Jubilee Year 2025, the central message of which is hope (cf. Bull Spes Non Confundit, 1), Pope Francis chose the motto: ‘Missionaries of Hope Among all Peoples’. It reminds individual Christians and the entire Church, the community of the baptised, of our fundamental vocation to be, in the footsteps of Christ, messengers and builders of hope. I trust that it will be for everyone a time of grace with the faithful God who has given us new birth in the risen Christ ‘to a living hope’ (cf. 1 Peter 1:3-4).
Papal message for World Mission Sunday 2025 from Pope Francis.
Find all your resources for World Mission Sunday in this section. Everything is free to download and use in your parish community.
The theme for this year, selected by Pope Francis, is inspired by the Gospel of Matthew: “Go and Invite Everyone to the Banquet.”
