Sunday of the Word of God 26th January
Instituted by Pope Francis on the Feast of Saint Jerome in 2019. It is devoted to the celebration,
study and dissemination of Sacred Scripture — the word of God.
“Devoting a specific Sunday of the liturgical year to the word of God can enable the Church to experience anew how the risen Lord opens up for us the treasury of his word and enables us to proclaim its unfathomable riches before the world.” (Pope Francis, Aperuit illis)
“The Word of God is not confined to a book, but remains ever alive and becomes a concrete and tangible sign. In fact, it challenges every community not only to proclaim the same faith as always, but above all to communicate it with the conviction that it brings hope to those who listen to it and welcome it with a simple heart.” (H.E. Archbishop Rino Fisichella)
“We are granted to live in an infinite friendship by listening to his voice, which calls us to communion with him (cf. Rev. 3:20), thus allowing the Spirit to generate in us and among us a new life, overflowing with hope, not in something, but in God who fulfills the promise of his presence at the very instant his word expresses it.” (Dom Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori OCist)
There will be a Jubilee blessing of Readers during all Masses this weekend (25/26 January)
Plenary indulgence is granted, on the usual conditions, to those who with due veneration
read Sacred Scripture for at least one half hour. This indulgence is applicable all year.
