Catholic school students from the Archdiocese will be recognized for their missionary spirit at the 2025 Los Angeles Missionary Childhood Association (MCA) Mass. The children’s energetic and generous missionary spirit will be represented by the 34 schools in attendance at the cathedral for the mass. This year’s mass will at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, 555 W. Temple Street, on Wednesday, October 16, 2025 from 9:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Archbishop José H. Gomez will serve as the Mass principal celebrant, with Msgr. Terrance Fleming, executive director of the Archdiocese’s Pontifical Mission Societies, as a concelebrant. The Mass commemorating World Mission Sunday, October 19. This year’s theme, chosen by the late Pope Francis and now carried forward by Pope Leo XIV, is “Missionaries of Hope Among the Peoples.”