Objectives: The course will seek to answer the questions, does a spir‧ituality shape our mission? How? What spirituality for the Church mission today?

Learning outcomes: The students will find inspiration for their future mission from the study of lives and works of select model missionaries of the Church’s rich missionary tradition. They will acquire basic attitudes of a missionary spirituality adequate for our times in order to thrive ahead in the evangelising mission of Christ.

Contents: The pilgrim church is missionary by her very nature ( AG 2). From her very conception, her missionaries have been deeply spiritual persons, i.e., men and women inflamed by the Spirit. This being so, the fun‧damentals of a missionary spirituality are articulated in the documents of Vat II ( AG 29) and the succeeding Magisterium. The various dimensions of this spirituality include Trinitarian, salvific, Pneumatological, Christolog‧ical, Ecclesiological, pastoral, contemplative, anthropological and sociolog‧ical (Cf. RM ). The course will explore each of these dimensions, illustrating them through the groundbreaking and firsthand missionary experiences of heroic men and women, with a special focus on Jesuit missions.

Methodology: A combination of inputs and interactive sessions.

Means of evaluation: Oral examination based on a short-written paper.