MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS FOR THE
51st WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY «Fear not, for I am with you» (Is 43:5):
Communicating Hope and Trust in our Time Access to today’s media makes it
possible for countless people to spread news - good or bad, true or false -
instantly. I wish to address all those who are daily sending out information. I
encourage everyone to engage in constructive communication, and help us to view
the world with realism and trust. For this we have to break the vicious cycle
of anxiety and stop the fear resulting from our focus on “bad news”. Let all of
us work at overcoming discontent and the resignation that evil has no limits.
In Communications Industry which thinks that good news does not sell, and where
human suffering is turned into entertainment, there is always the temptation
for pessimism. I would encourage the search for creative communication that
concentrates on solutions for a positive attitude towards life and offers “good
news” to our people. Good news Life is a story waiting to be told and
everything depends on the lens we use to look at things. For us Christians,
that lens can only be the good news, “the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Son of God.”
It is good news not because it has nothing to do with suffering, but rather because
suffering is an integral part of Jesus’ love for the Father and for all
mankind. Through Christ, God has told us that we are not alone. Through Christ,
hope is born, for everyone, where God’s love is poured into our hearts and
makes new life blossom. Every new tragedy in world history can become a setting
for good news - to build anew. Confidence in the seed of the Kingdom Jesus
frequently compares the Kingdom of God to a seed that releases its potential
for life precisely when it falls to the ground and dies. In that life, hardship
and the cross of weakness and failure do not obstruct, but bring about God’s
salvation. This is how hope in the Kingdom of God, silently takes root like a
seed, matures and deepens in our hearts. Those to whom the Holy Spirit grants
keen vision, can see it blossom. The horizons of the Spirit Jesus is our hope,
our Good News. By the power of the Holy Spirit we can be witnesses and
“communicators” of a new humanity. Confidence in the seed of God’s Kingdom and
in the mystery of Easter enables us to communicate with the conviction that it
is possible to highlight the good news in every story and in each person. Those
who entrust themselves to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, realize how God is
present in every moment of our lives, to write the history of salvation. Hope
is the thread with which this sacred history is woven, and the Holy Spirit, is
the weaver. We nurture this hope by reading the Gospel. Today too, the Spirit
continues to act by opening new avenues of confidence and hope. From the
Vatican, 24 January 2017
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