Daily Worldmissionnaires

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The Daily Worldmissionnaires are men and women who pledge to help the Society for the Propagation of the Faith through daily prayer and sacrifice. Offerings received by the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the United States are joined with offerings from all other countries and are distributed annually to more than 1,100 mission dioceses and vicariates around the world!

What Does a Daily Worldmissionnaire do?

Prays each of the following 3 times daily for the missions:
"Our Father"
"Hail Mary"
"St. Francis Xavier, pray for us"
"St. Therese of Lisieux, pray for us"

AND

Sacrifices some luxury or necessity daily, donating that money, instead, to the missions at the end of each month. The sacrifices can be sent by donating online or mailing a check to the Mission Office. 

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History

In 1953, a World Mission Exhibition was held at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis. The Exhibit attracted more than 270,000 people coming from St. Louis, the Diocese of Springfield and Belleville, Illinois. The Exhibition was designed to "bring an intimate and a comprehensive knowledge of the vast mission work of the Church," and was such a success that many organizers expressed a desire to continue to work for the Mission Church. This group became known as the Daily Worldmissionnaires.

The newly formed DW's decided to adopt a mission aid program that was once followed by Pauline Jaricot, a native of France and the founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Pauline had seen her brother, an ordained priest, serve as a missionary. In an effort to help him, she went to family and friends asking them to pray for the success of his work and to support his work financially through sacrifice. Pauline divided her growing "Society" into groups, with one member was designated as the Group Leader. It was the Group Leader's responsibility to gather the results of the sacrifices and forward them to Pauline for her brother. One day a visitor came to Pauline's house: Bishop William DuBourg. He convinced her to make the beneficiary of her work the Church Universal, and not just the work of her brother.