Go Forth…
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
Family: Uniting Life and Love – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, December 28
Family: Uniting Life and Love Family life is where our deepest desires and God’s plan can converge. In his apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio (FC) [On the Family], Saint John Paul II wrote: “The family finds…
Stop, Look and Listen – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, December 21
Stop, Look and Listen I met a woman in one of our chapel communities, in a working-class población neighborhood on the fringes of the city of Santiago, Chile, who shared with me a beautiful and…
The Baptist’s Mission – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, December 14
The Baptist’s Mission As Christians we are called to be proclaimers, heralds, and evangelizers. An excellent model for us is none other than John the Baptist. During this Advent season, an exploration into the significance…
Advent is Mission – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, December 7
Advent is Mission This is the time for the hustle and bustle of getting ready for Christmas. Actually, the Christmas sales and decorations could be found on the shelves even before Thanksgiving! Perhaps like some…
Remember the Reason – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, November 30
Remember the Reason Are you asking yourself, “Where has the year gone by?” “It seems like only yesterday we were enjoying the warm and sunny days of July and August!” I join you with these…
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Every Tuesday, we send new commentaries on the upcoming Sunday readings from a missionary perspective AND a link to our latest podcast episode featuring a missionary giving witness and reflecting on the readings.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Have you Seen the Star? – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, January 4
Feast of the Epiphany
Isaiah 60:1-6 Psalm 72: 2, 78, 10-13 Ephesians 3: 2-3a, 5-6 Matthew 2:1-12
Have you Seen the Star? The feast of the Epiphany opens our imagination to understand the wisdom of this event as Scripture tells us. If you haven’t already, read below, my commentary for the Gospel,…