What is a missionary? From the writings of Fr. Paolo Manna, priest (

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What is a missionary?From the writings of Fr.
Paolo Manna, priest (Missionary Priest and
Victim in Apostolic Virtues, PIME edition, 1996,
pp. 173-174)

• He is a man chosen by God to continue on earth
  the life, work and passion of Jesus Christ. Jesus
  came into the world to offer worthy praise to the
  heavenly Father and to offer Himself as a victim
  of expiation for the sins of humanity. This is
  the core of the life and the redemptive mission
  of our Lord.
• Hence the missionary who consecrates with Christ
  but does not make himself a victim with Christ
  does not understand his priesthood. Whoever,
  accepting the active part of his ministry to
  teach, preach and baptize, does not also accept
  the passive part of being a victim for Jesus, a
  victim with Jesus for the salvation of souls,
  does not understand his vocation as a missionary.
  So if we want to be worthy cooperators of the
  divine Redemption, let us learn how, as did Saint
  Paul and all the great apostolic men, to live
  crucified with our Lord Jesus Christ, offering
  ourselves for the salvation of souls. My dear
  confreres, you are not sent by a business firm,
  nor by a church more or less evangelical, charged
  with founding charitable and educational
  institutions and with making converts for the
  sake of statistics. Missionaries of the
  Redemption, you are called to be also yourselves
  redeemers, to make atonement and reparation,
  essentially to be men of sacrifice, because this
  is Redemption it is above all atonement and
  reparation, accomplished through our Lord Jesus
  Christs sacrifice of His whole life, culminating
  in the supreme sacrifice of the Cross.
• Is it possible, therefore, for a missionary
  without a spirit of sacrifice, and hence an enemy
  of the Cross of Christ, to claim to be a minister
  of divine Redemption? We are Missionaries, our
  weapon is the Cross which redeemed the world and
  gave atoning value and redemptive power to the
  sufferings, penances, and mortifications of all
  Christians, but especially of us priests who want
  to work for the salvation of souls. The work of
  redemption, which began without us, is not, by an
  inscrutable plan of God, ordinarily completed
  without us. Let us think about this, let us
  meditate on it we will be missionaries, we will
  save souls to the extent that we will have a
  share, more or less large, in the pains and
  sufferings of Jesus crucified. Are we
• truly detached from creatures and unafraid of
  mortifications? Undoubtedly we will be great
  savers of souls. It is not I who make this
  affirmation Saint Paul, saying that he completes
  in his own flesh the sufferings of Christ,
  assures us that he does so win the salvation of
  many souls for the sake of His Body, which is the
  Church (Col. 124).