Posted May 16, 2019

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Missionary Childhood Association hosted a day to show about 65 Catholic school students how they can participate in every Catholic’s baptismal call to spread the Gospel through talks by men and women religious in the missions, through interactive crafts and by prayers. Read all about the Archdiocesan Mission Day here. (Photos by Sarah Webb)

  • Dylan Kristofor (left) and Pual Sales, eighth grade students from St. Michael the Archangel School in Levittown, make mission collages.

  • Students work on collages after hearing missionaries from several congregations speak.

  • Students make collages to show what they learned about the church’s missionary work during Mission Day May 6.

  • Students interview the missionaries.

  • Sister Catherine Msuya, H.S.S., and Andrew Sidorski of Christ the King School in Philadelphia make rosaries during Mission Day.

  • Students write their prayer intentions on ribbons to be included with the rosaries students made during the inaugural Archdiocesan Mission Day May at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, Philadelphia.

  • Students make rosaries during Mission Day.

  • Cupcakes in the form of the mission rosary, depicting the various regions of the world, made for an instructional treat.

  • Augustinian Father Anthony Burrascano tells children of the Augustinian Fathers’ work in the missions near and far.

  • During Mass for Mission Day, students pray together.

  • Mother Mary Incarnation offers a student a sign of peace.