A mission can guide an action.
Mission is a term that comes from the Latin missĭo and relates to the practice of sending . Among the different uses of the word recognized by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) , there is the power granted to an individual to carry out a task; the temporary assignment that diplomats and officials receive from the authorities of a government ; the church or the place where the missionaries are in charge of preaching; and the expense or expenses incurred in something.
Thus, for example, we can establish sentences like the following to show more clearly the meanings stated: "The Minister of Economy had a tough mission in the government and that was to put an end to the crisis" or "Father Manuel left for Bolivia." "Well, he was given the mission of helping to build a school in a very poor area."
Mission in religion
In the case of religion , several settlements can be named that missionaries have established in inhospitable regions with the intention of evangelizing. One of the largest missions in history has been the one established by the Jesuits in South America , in countries such as Paraguay , Argentina , Uruguay , Brazil and Bolivia .
The Franciscans , for their part, established missions in Baja California and Baja California Sur and then expanded northward.
Sometimes the mission is presented as an objective to achieve.
a movie
In this sense, from a religious point of view, it is interesting to emphasize that there is a film called "The Mission" , of British origin and released in 1986 , which has as its plot axis the evangelizing work that a priest ( Father Gabriel ) is doing. taking place in a territory of the mountains of Brazil during the 18th century .
A complicated task to which will be added the fact that the Church, due to the pressures it is receiving from the Portuguese colonial empire, decides to give up the lands where the aforementioned mission is being carried out. However, the religious will do everything possible to prevent his work and the daily lives of the local people from disappearing.
Robert de Niro, Jeremy Irons y Aidan Quinn son algunos de los actores que encabezan el reparto de dicha producción cinematográfica que consiguió cosechar un Oscar, un Golden Globe, tres BAFTA, una Palme d'Or y un David di Donatello.
Business mission
Business mission is what a corporate entity intends to achieve. The business mission is the reason that drives the creation of the company and details the orientation of its efforts and activities . In other words, it represents the company's reason for being and guides its planning .
The business mission must detail the fundamental activity of the company, the concept of the generic product it offers and the concept of the types of customers it intends to serve.
Other uses of the notion
Finally, we can mention the space mission , an expression that describes the individual flight that a ship makes through space.
And that is without forgetting that, in the same way, there is what is known as the life mission . A concept that refers to a set of manifestations that establish an objective or goal that someone has set out to achieve.