Pope Francis affirmed that the Word of God “is the only one that serves as a compass for our path”, just a few days before the sixth edition of the Sunday of the Word of God, next January 26.
“In the midst of the daze and vanity of human words, we need the #WordOfGod, the only one that serves as a compass for our path,” the Holy Father wrote on his X account on January 21.
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Pope Francis also highlighted that the Word of God is “the only one that, in the face of so many wounds and losses, is capable of leading us back to the true meaning of life.”
In the midst of the daze and vanity of human words, we need the #WordOfGodthe only one that serves as a compass for our path, the only one that, in the face of so many wounds and losses, is capable of leading us back to the true meaning of life.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex_es) January 21, 2025
This year the motto of the Sixth Sunday of the Word of God comes from Psalm 119: “I hope in your word.” As in other years, Pope Francis will preside over a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican at 9:30 am (local time).
In addition, the Holy Father will confer the ministry of the lectorate on forty lay people, including several women; and at the end of the Mass the Pontiff will give those present the Gospel of Luke, “with the intention, which has already become a tradition, of spreading the Word of God in a tangible way.”
Pope Francis established the Sunday of the Word of God in 2019 so that “religious and assiduous familiarity” with the Bible may grow among the People of God.
In the apostolic letter in the form motu proprio He opened to themof September 30, 2019, the Holy Father wrote: “Concretely dedicating one Sunday of the liturgical year to the Word of God allows us, above all, to make the Church revive the gesture of the Risen Lord who also opens for us the treasure of his Word so that we can announce this inexhaustible wealth throughout the world.”
Walter Sánchez Silva
I have been a husband since 2008. My wife and I have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before he was born. Since I joined ACI Prensa in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Cologne, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and of Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the Family synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Synodality, in 2023. I closely follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers persecution from the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as current ecclesiastical events in the region.