A mission can guide an action.
Mission is a term that comes from the Latin missĭo and is related to the practice of sending out missions . Among the different uses of the word that the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) recognizes, there are the faculty that is granted to an individual to develop a task; the temporary assignment that diplomats and officials receive from the authorities of a government ; the church or place where missionaries are in charge of preaching; and the expense or expenditure that is made on something.
Thus, for example, we can establish sentences like the following to show more clearly the meanings expressed: "The Minister of Economy had a difficult mission in the government and it was to put an end to the crisis" or "Father Manuel went to Bolivia because he was given the mission of helping to build a school in a very poor area."
Mission in religion
In the case of religion , there are several settlements 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 northwards.
Sometimes the mission is presented as a goal to be achieved.
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 central plot the evangelizing work that a priest ( Father Gabriel ) is carrying out in a territory in 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 cede the lands where the aforementioned mission is being carried out. However, the religious man will do everything possible to prevent his work and the daily life 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 of Donatello.
Business mission
A business mission is what a corporate entity aims to accomplish. The business mission is the reason behind the creation of the company and details the direction of its efforts and activities . In other words, it represents the company's reason for being and guides its planning .
The mission statement should detail the company's core business , 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 without forgetting that, in the same way, there is what is known as life mission . A concept that refers to a set of manifestations that establish an objective or goal that someone has set out to achieve.