Missionaries today struggle to be people of integrity, both in their own persons and in the approaches they employ in seeking the “conversion” of the people they encounter. Missionaries do call people to faith, while respecting their freedom of conscience, their experience, their religions, histories, and cultures. Keeping these two coordinates in fruitful tension is enhanced by reflection on the paschal nature of all human experience and, by the light of the Holy Spirit, linking it with the paschal mystery as lived and revealed in Jesus. “Paschal Mission” can serve as a foundational paradigm for all mission today.
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