Missionaries are to unite Christians and to have equal love for all as a mandate of their work, said Fr. David Taban of the Catholic Diocese of Torit.
He encourages the missionaries to serve the faithful in the church as equal regardless of their economic status, Radio Emmanuel reported.
He urges them to use the word Missionary for the service of the people of God rather than causing division among believers.
“When you are a Missionary, you have no love for the community that you are sent to serve, you divide them you select those who have money you bring them near you and you through the others with the poverty away, that Mission will never go ahead and it will never last, they do not look at you like a Missionary, but they will look at you as a tourist someone who is coming to grasp, to see and go away, but a Missionary must set a root in the society where he was sent to work to unite people that’s the work of God. We are to unite not to divide, when you are a Missionary and you become for the transient only to impress richness for yourself that Mission will not go ahead you will leave a lot of atrocities behind”, the priest says.
The catholic prelate mentions that religious leaders should commit themselves for the common good of the people of God.
He then calls on members of the Church to leave the issue of misleading the missionaries who are sent to serve while causing confusion in the Church activities.
“The Church is universal the priest must remain a priest, a nun must a nun, a religious must always remain a religious, when you mislead and you say you are members of the Church then you mislead thing are not moving then God will account on you at the end of time that we must make sure work for the common good of the Church not to divide priest not working together where is that community spirit of working together to build the kingdom of God let us work together and build the church of Christ, today I will go but the church remains and the faith will remain let the Christianity move among us anybody who is coming to serve people must serve and go but the faith remains other than dividing yourself because of religious some people want to a touch themselves there, some people want to a touch church of Christ is one let us pray that we become Missionaries of peace and unity not of division, hatred and sectarianism”, Fr Taban advises.
The Catholic priest made these remarks to the congregation on Sunday at Sts Peter and Paul Cathedral in Torit.