Source: Agenzia Fides
Rev. Fr. Donald Zagore, an Ivorian Theologian of the Society of African Missions, has explained that the Eucharist remains essentially the heart of the Church’s missionary activity and without it nothing could be achieved.
He noted in an interview with Agenzia Fides that “as St. Teresa of the Child Jesus said, in the absence of the Eucharistic Jesus, the Gospel cannot be announced, the sick cannot be comforted and healed, and the world cannot be led to the Kingdom of Heaven.”
The reason for the existence of the mission, the Theologian pointed out, is the Eucharist. John Paul II said that ‘the Church lives by the Eucharist’. Without the Eucharist, the Church no longer has her reason for being, continues the missionary. Yet, without being responsible for this dramatic situation, many Christian communities in Africa and in the world remain for years without the Eucharist due to lack of Priests”.
