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Go Forth... provides tools to connect with God's mission for you and your ministry. We offer commentary, podcasts, and community to support and form missionary disciples throughout the Church. Our goal is to animate the universal call to mission through the Sunday readings.

Amplify Your Mission with Go Forth...

Go Forth... aims to amplify our universal call to mission by exploring the weekly scriptures in two ways:

  • Commentary on the Sunday readings from a missionary perspective - arriving in your email box on Tuesdays to help you prepare reflections, lessons, or homilies
  • Podcasts featuring interviews with missionaries in the field, both in the U.S. and abroad, who share their lived reality and experience of the word of God

Our goal is to provide resources that help you amplify the Gospel message and strengthen the missionary church.

Contact Dr. Ben Ou-Yang at benouyang@uscatholicmission.org  to learn more and get involved!

Sunday Readings from a Missionary Perspective

Discipleship Costs – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, August 24

Discipleship Costs Jesus’ words in today’s Gospel passage from Luke can be very disturbing; they confront us and question the quality of our discipleship, our genuine following of Jesus. We must strive to enter through the “narrow…

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Offensive Oratory – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, August 17, 2025

Offensive Oratory A middle-aged couple came up to me after Mass one day, recently. “You should avoid terms like ‘concentration camps’, ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and ‘Gestapo tactics,’” they said. I didn’t argue with them, but merely…

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Becoming Credible Servants – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, August 10, 2025

Becoming Credible Servants Today’s Gospel mentions various forms of the word “servant” over a dozen times; we cannot fail to see the emphasis that Luke the Evangelist places on this aspect of Christ’s mission. Pope Francis, speaking…

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Christ is All and in All – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, August 3, 2025

Christ is All and in All I was 26 years old when I went to Brazil in 1978 knowing that I was making a commitment of at least 6 years as our Reverend Mother at…

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Knowing God as Compassionate Father – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, July 27, 2025

Knowing God as Compassionate Father Christian creeds address God as Father. Calling God “Our Father” is a personal address, asserting his care for all creation, especially for all humanity. God’s fatherly care is already found in the Old Testament (Deut…

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Don’t Miss the Good Part – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, July 20, 2025

Don’t Miss the Good Part God’s Word requires only our full attention—the one, essential thing that we may, unfortunately, be unconsciously avoiding! We might be able to impress people with our capacity to throw a great party—but…

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Podcast Show Notes

Ronnie Gonzaga – Couples for Christ – USA And Beyond

Ronnie shares a beautiful reflection on the readings for Corpus Christi as well as stories about his life working in campus ministry as a missionary for Couples for Christ. Find out more about this with this international lay ecclesial movement.

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Sr. Michael Marie Rottinghaus – Missionary Benedictine – China, Kenya & USA

Our missionary witness for Trinity Sunday, June 4, 2023 has lived on three continents AND followed the Benedictine Rule. Find out how that works… and why she gave an address to Pope Francis during his visit to Kenya.

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Fr. Tage Danielson – OFM Cap.- Papua New Guinea

We launched our podcast on Pentecost Sunday and went halfway around the world to Papua New Guinea where the Capuchins serve in several communities and offer priestly formation to local men.

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Meet Our Host

In this podcast preview, Dr. Ben OuYang shares how he connected with U.S. Catholic Mission Association and got involved with the Go Forth… project.

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Intro Podcast

Communications specialist Lisa Helene Bacalski breaks down the three elements of Go Forth with host Dr. Ben Ou Yang. Tune in to hear more about the missionary commentaries on the Sunday readings, the podcast interviews and the opportunity for community through the Mission Cafe.

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