What Is World Mission Sunday in the Bible?
Feast
A Sunday for the missions all over the world. On that day we pray and give to a collection for the missions.
A detail
- The mission: Jesus sent the apostles to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world.
Today
It is the next-to-last Sunday of October.
Where it appears in the Bible
Mark 16:15; Matthew 28:19
What the Bible says
Mark 16:15
And he said to them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Matthew 28:19
Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Mark 16:15