The Holy See has designated a number of Jubilee Days throughout 2025 to recognize and celebrate different groups of people and various ministries in the Church. The Jubilee of the World of Communications will be held from Friday, January 24, to Sunday, January 26, 2025.
All of us are called to communicate the Love of God to others. Although some are called to share this gift in a professional way, others are called to volunteer the skills through technology, social media, print, graphic designers, PR, the list goes on.
Although the world tells us that communications is about the message we send to others; what we say and what we do, in the Church our way is different. We are called to listen; to each other, to the Church and most importantly to the Holy Spirit who is communicating the will of God to us and through us.
As Pope Francis tells us
We have a pressing need in the Church for communication that kindles hearts, that is balm on wounds and that shines light on the journey of our brothers and sisters. I dream of an ecclesial communication that knows how to let itself be guided by the Holy Spirit, gentle and at the same time, prophetic, that knows how to find new ways and means for the wonderful proclamation it is called to deliver in the third millennium. A communication which puts the relationship with God and one’s neighbour, especially the neediest, at the centre and which knows how to light the fire of faith rather than preserve the ashes of a self-referential identity. A form of communication founded on humility in listening and parrhesia in speaking, which never separates truth from charity.
You may wish to ask for the intercession of one of the Saints associated with communications.
- The Archangels Gabriel, Raphael and Michael (messengers of God)
- St Paul the Apostle (Patron of evangelists)
- St Hildegard (Patron of writers)
- St Claire of Assisi (Patron of television)
- St Francis de Sales (Patron of Catholic writers and Catholic Press)
- St Maximilian Kolbe (Patron of Journalists and media communications)
- St Titus Brandsma (journalist and Martyr)
- Blessed Carlo Acutis (Patron of young people, computer programmers and the internet)
Let us pray for communications and those who work in this field
Pope’s Prayer for Communications
Lord, teach us to move beyond ourselves, and to set out in search of truth.
Teach us to go out and see,
teach us to listen, not to entertain prejudices
or draw hasty conclusions.
Teach us to go where no one else will go,
to take the time needed to understand,
to pay attention to the essentials,
not to be distracted by the superfluous,
to distinguish deceptive appearances from the truth.
Grant us the grace to recognize your dwelling places in our world
and the honesty needed to tell others what we have seen.
Amen.
READ POPE FRANCIS MESSAGE FOR THE 59TH WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
