Mission - A Journey of Conversion

The Spirit called St. Comboni to follow Jesus in his role as the Good Shepherd with the Pierced Heart and to proceed with the "dream" of saving Africa with Africa. We Comboni Missionaries continue this mission: to love the people as Jesus loved them, working together that they may be ever more the protagonists of their own history and of the mission of God.

The mission requires of the missionary a journey of conversion which gives him the possibility of living the charismatic experience of St. Daniel Comboni and of moving at the pace of the people to whom he proclaims the Gospel, knowing that one may die before seeing the results of one's own work.

The missionary lives in constant tension with and feels challenged by the ever-changing reality. He neither becomes rooted in nor is satisfied with the results achieved. He is fully aware that the mission ad gentes is only just beginning and he offers himself totally to God and to others so that Christ may be known and liberation offered to all.

True mission is not measured by what we complete, but by the love with which we plant seeds we may never see bloom.