Communicate by finding people how and where they are, is the theme for JMCS 2021
Vatican City.- This Tuesday, September 29, the Holy See Press Office made public the theme chosen by Pope Francis for the 55th World Communications Day, to be held on May 16, 2021: "Come and you will see it " (Jn 1, 46) Communicate by finding people how and where they are . As is already a tradition, the theme of the message for the Communication Day is announced on the feast of the archangels Saint Michael, Saint Gabriel and Saint Raphael, in consideration of the fact that it was the archangel Gabriel who announced to Mary that she would be the Mother of Jesus.
Meanwhile, as is also tradition, the text of Pope Francis' message for World Day is published on January 24, on the feast of Saint Francis de Sales, considered the patron saint of journalists and writers.
In the note published by the Press Office of the Holy See it is explained that the words of the Apostle Philip, "Come and see it" , are central to the Gospel: the Christian announcement, rather than words, is made of looks, testimonies, experiences, encounters, closeness. In a word, of life. Precisely those words have been chosen by Pope Francis as the theme of the 55th Message for the World Day of Social Communications.
“The next day, Jesus wanted to leave for Galilee. He meets Felipe and says: "Follow me." Felipe was from Bestsaida, from the city of Andrés and Pedro. Philip meets Nathanael and tells him: "That one that Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets, we have found: Jesus the son of Joseph, the one from Nazareth." Nathanael answered him: "Can there be any good thing about Nazareth?" Felipe says to him: "Come and see."
The press release recognizes that in the historical course that we are living, in a time that forces us to be physically distant due to the pandemic, communication can make possible the closeness necessary to recognize the essential and truly understand the meaning of things. .
"We do not know the truth if we do not experience it, " the note states , "if we do not find people, if we do not participate in their joys and sorrows. The old saying 'God finds you where you are' can be a guide for those who They work in the media or in communication in the Church In the call of the first disciples, with Jesus who comes to meet them and invites them to follow him, we also see the invitation to use all means of communication, in all their ways, to reach people as they are and where they live . "
The World Day of Social Communications was instituted by the Second Vatican Council in the Inter Mirifica decree on the media of social communication. Every year the day of the Ascension of the Lord is celebrated, which will be celebrated next year on May 16.
Source: Vatican News