WHAT IS THE CMO?

"Participation in the universal mission is the sign of the maturity of faith." (John Paul II) (RM 77)

Members of the Church by virtue of their baptism, all Christians are jointly responsible for missionary activity. The participation of Christian communities and individuals in this right and duty is called “missionary cooperation.”

Such cooperation is rooted and achieved first of all in our personal union with Christ: only if we are united to him, like the branch to the vine (cf. Jn 15:5), can we bear good fruit. Holiness of life enables every Christian to be fruitful in the mission of the Church: “the Sacred Council invites everyone to a profound interior renewal, so that, having acquired a lively awareness of their own responsibility in spreading the Gospel, they may fulfil their part in missionary activity among non-Christians.”

Participation in the universal mission, therefore, is not limited to a few isolated activities, but is a sign of the maturity of faith and of a Christian life that bears fruit. In this way, the believer broadens the horizons of his charity by showing concern for those who are far away and for those who are near: he prays for missions and missionary vocations, he helps missionaries, he follows their activity with interest and, when they return, he welcomes them with the joy with which the early Christian communities heard from the Apostles the wonders that God had worked through their preaching (cf. Acts 14:27).

166 Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Ad Gentes, AGD 35; cf. CIC can. CIC 211 CIC 781.

The OCM is an organization that responded to this call and also "calls" other baptized people to participate in the universal mission.

Through the Missionary Cenacle we establish a method of Faith, prayer, evangelization, charity and sending and the main thing: a time with our God in favor of the pagans. This is a method that we have for Evangelization, so that the pagans come to be part of the Eucharist, Baptism and the strength of God,