News from Maria Province (Japan)

Vocational Promotion

The Vocations Committee has created badges and pamphlets to distribute to Holy Year pilgrims. They have already been distributed at parishes in Fukushima City and at the Vietnamese language Mass gatherings in the Sendai Diocese, and they have been well received. In the Tokyo Diocese, the badges and pamphlets have been prepared in time for the Mass for Consecrated Persons to be held at St. Ignatius Church on Saturday, February 1. They are also scheduled to be distributed at Chofu Church. In the Sapporo Diocese, Sister Matsumiya will be distributing them. They will be distributed to each community in Maria Province.

Badge Description

This badge represents the CND mission. The big heart represents the CND mission, which is missionary work, and the spreading of God’s love. The small hearts of different sizes and colors that make up the big heart represent people of all nationalities, genders, ages, and occupations, as well as people with various difficulties such as illnesses and disabilities. In other words, the target of missionary work is all people. CND sisters carry out missionary work so that love and peace will spread to every corner of the world, and so that people around the world can be united in God’s great love.