Go Forth…
Go Forth... provides tools to connect with God's mission for you and your ministry. We offer commentary 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 with a commentary from a missionary perspective - arriving in your email box on Wednesdays to help you prepare reflections, lessons, or homilies
Our goal is to provide resources that help you amplify the Gospel message and strengthen the missionary church.
Sunday Readings from a Missionary Perspective
Come, Holy Spirit, Come – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, May 24
Pentecost Continues Today On this beautiful feast of Pentecost, we affirm that the Holy Spirit is alive in the Church. Diverse Spirit-given gifts flourish in Christian communities across the globe. Today we Catholics are privileged…
Desert Winds – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, May 17
Commentary: One Christmas Eve, the U.S. immigration personnel stationed in El Paso, Texas, seemed in a hurry to get home. At the end of a long day of processing asylum requests, checking the international police…
All We Need is Love – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, May 3
Commentary: Service, community and home, a dwelling place. These are the key words and themes that permeate the readings in today’s liturgy. And what powerful words they are! If you read my reflections monthly, you…
Vocation of Shepherding – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, April 26
Christ-centered Shepherds of God’s People It is now just a little over one year ago that Pope Francis, known as the “people’s pope,” went to his eternal reward (April 21, 2025). He often spoke insightfully…
Hot Hearts – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, April 19
Hot Hearts A young friend in Villa Francia–a hot spot of resistance to the Pinochet regime in Chile’s capital, in 1983–whispered an invitation to me to attend a gathering of speakers, who would openly denounce…
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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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Come, Holy Spirit, Come – Missionary Commentary for Sunday, May 24
Trinity Sunday
Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 Daniel 3:52-55 II Corinthians 13:11-13 John 3:16-18
Trinity – A Community of Dynamic Love Today, as the Church celebrates Trinity Sunday, we are invited to reflect upon a great truth of the Christian faith: we believe in a Trinitarian God: one God…