“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’
Also in Focus
November 2021: All Saints and All Souls > October 2021: Serve with Luke > September 2021: Noah and Creation Care > August 2021: Sacred Space > July 2021: Year of the Family > June 2021: Scripture and Wellbeing > May 2021: Pentecost > April 2021: Easter Glory > March 2021: The Holy Family > February 2021: Our Shared Scriptures > Focus 2020 > Focus 2019 >Our focus at the beginning of this new year is on the upcoming Sunday of the Word of God on 24th January.
We hope you will find these ideas and resources helpful as you prepare to celebrate this day, which was instituted by Pope Francis on 30th September 2019.
Check our our latest Scripture course ‘Echoes of God: Journeying with the word of God’. David McLoughlin invites you to join him on a journey through the whole Bible in this wonderful 7 week course.
We invite all the Faithful to bring their Bibles to Mass to be blessed during the Sunday of the Word of God as decreed by Pope Francis. You can download an Order of Blessing here.
On the Sunday of the Word of God parishes are invited to celebrate their Readers with a simple Order of Commissioning and/or Rite of Renewal which you can download here.
Further resources to help us prepare for and celebrate the Sunday of the Word of God.
The Rt. Rev’d Peter M. Brignall, Bishop of Wrexham and Chair of the God who Speaks initiative reflects on the origins of this campaign and celebrates its impact and future.
We're excited to continue the God who Speaks initiative throughout this year and beyond. We'd love to hear how your Scripture projects have been going to date. Please complete our short online survey to let us know.
