MFC NEWSLETTER | AUGUST 2025
Welcome to our Missionary Families of Christ online newsletter! We send this out via email every month, and if you want to be put in the mailing list, just let us know via sending an email to: secretariat@missionaryfamiliesofchrist If you have an update you want to share, pls send it to that email address as […]
MFC NEWSLETTER | JULY 2025
Welcome to our Missionary Families of Christ online newsletter! We send this out via email every month, and if you want to be put in the mailing list, just let us know via sending an email to: secretariat@missionaryfamiliesofchrist If you have an update you want to share, pls send it to that email address as […]
FROM PRIVILEGE TO PROPHETIC PURPOSE
Why the life of Frank Padilla may one day be spoken of with the word “SAINT.” On December 24, 2025, Christmas Eve, while the world was preparing cradles and carols for the birth of Christ, Frank Padilla quietly went home to Him. No headlines.No applause.Just a servant finishing his watch. But make no mistake: the […]
The Legacy of Frank Padilla: From Privilege to Purpose
On December 24, 2025, as the world hushed for the coming of the Savior, one of the Catholic Church’s most tireless laborers finished his race. The passing of Frank Padilla on Christmas Eve marks the end of an era for the lay missionary movement, but it leaves behind a luminous blueprint for how a “child […]
NewChapter: Episode 3 Update on the 12 Action Points
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL 19 May 2025 It’s the 19th again! And I want to take this time to update you on the 12 Action Points. Please watch to the end, and type AMEN when you do!
Pope Leo XIV & Missionary Families of Christ, how his two pronouncements affirm our Vision & Mission
𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋16 May 2025 Habemus Papam! It has been one week since Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost was elected Pope and took the name Leo XIV. We have been closely watching and taking note of his audiences and speeches since then, and we can look back at his first two pronouncements. Our Pope Leo […]
NewChapter: Update on the 12 Key Action Points – Episode 2
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL 19 April 2025 G’Day Mate! Hello from Brisbane, Australia! Bringing you Episode 2 of NewChapter: Update on the 12 Key Action Points! We will be uploading monthly updates, and get your inputs and comments as well. Just a quick one this time! Hope you all are using this time to reflect, […]
12 Action Points for the Journey Ahead
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL 20 March 2025 “And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus” Luke 16: 19-31 Peace be with you, brothers and sisters! Thank you for all the messages, comments and posts. Des and I are reading them all, and it warms our hearts to get the feedback and love […]
PASSING ON THE TORCH (TRANSITION 2025)
FROM THE SERVANT GENERAL TRANSITION 2025 PASSING ON THE TORCH Feast of St Joseph March 19, 2025 “There is an appointed time for everything” (Ecclesiastes 3:1) My dear brethren in MFC, God’s peace be with you all. MFC is a dynamic community, now having grown for over 43 years. In all this time, […]