Jubilee of the world of communication | Sowing hope and mercy
From January 24 to 26, the Jubilee of the world of communication takes place in Rome. Courage is needed to sow hope and mercy
It will be journalists and workers in the world of communication who will gather for the first Jubilee event of the year. The three-day event dedicated to them begins on Jan. 24, on the day of the liturgical memory of St. Francis de Sales (whose relic will be housed in the Basilica of St. John Lateran) and concludes on the 26th.
Saturday 25, in particular, will feature a program full of meetings, such as one moderated by Mario Calabresi in which Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa and Narrative 4 network co-founder Colum McCann will speak.
Still, there will be an audience with the Pope and a seminar organized by the UCSI (Italian Catholic Press Union) entitled Il Giornalismo a servizio della democrazia.
But it will be the pilgrimage to St. Peter’s Holy Door that will be the most eagerly awaited event for journalists, media workers, managers and editors, videomakers, graphic designers, copywriters, public relations workers, social media managers, audio and video technicians, printers, and computer scientists from the Catholic world.
In 9,000, from all over the world, will walk through that door to confirm their commitment to communicate hope in a world where everything says otherwise, where headlines often scream only negative news.
As the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication declares, “we cannot delude ourselves into building good communication by ignoring evil, but we can change the perspective if we choose to tell the sparks of light that are always there in every story, and that it is always possible to glimpse even in the darkest scenarios.”
spazio + spadoni, too, in its own small way, through its magazine,
seeks to do this:
shed light on the works of mercy being performed in the world,
tell beautiful, strong, positive stories,
give space to all those realities that can be a sign of hope.
Being pilgrims, in fact, does not only mean physically walking a space.
Even through the web, communicating, one can be one. Instead of (and beyond) moving our legs, we can have words, ideas, visions set in motion. There will always be someone, on the other side, waiting.
Read the article on St. Francis de Sales,inspirer of various congregations
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