Whenever we think about missionaries and going for mission, some images would come to mind.
We would think of faith-filled and courageous men and women who would leave the comfort zone and go to some distant land to witness to the Good News of salvation.
That is often the obvious image of missionaries and the mission and that is quite true.
For St. Therese, she too had wanted to go for mission, but her frail health did not make that possible.
She prayed about it and then it came to her mind that though she could not be a missionary and go for mission, she could still do her part and pray for missionaries and for those who have yet to know about the Good News of Jesus Christ.
That also highlighted to the Church that missionaries need our prayer support and no mission can bear fruit without prayer.
So praying for missionaries and for the mission of the Church to bear fruit would certainly require our prayer.
May we like St. Therese, offer our prayers for missionaries and for the mission of the Church.
Also in whatever state of life we are in, we are also in a sense, missionaries working and praying for the fruitful mission of the Church.