Digital missionaries are united in prayer for the rest of the Pope

Sebastian Samson Ferrari – Vatican City

In the heart of the eternal city, a few steps away from Plaza de San Pedro, digital missionaries from different countries, on Saturday, April 26, 2025 in the afternoon at the San Lorenzo International Youth Center, to pray for the rest of the Holy Father Francisco and think about his legacy of the digital mission.

The activity began with a spiritual program prepared carefully: the Eucharist, the prayer in silence, the reading of the reward from the good Samaritan (which the Pope often cited in his sermons), and the songs of Father Cristobal Fones SJ, director of the Pope prayer network, demand, and prayer to the Virgin Mary and blessing. All this is wrapped in an environment of remembrance and brotherly love, where every gesture and word resonated with the living memory of the Pope that transformed the path of preaching in our time.

Likewise, the participants were invited to write a word for which they thanked God for Francisco Pontifat, and they created a symbolic gesture of thanks and thinking, and put it under the image of Francisco.

One of the most moving moments was the intervention of the writer and biography Austin Evarthett, who shared his testimony about the legacy of Francisco. He said: “He showed us the style of God, not as a theory, but with his life. He embodied him with humility, tenderness and patience.” Iverreight recalls how Cardinal Bergolio spoke at the time, in his speech during public gatherings before being 2013, about a church containing itself, which needed to go out again, to preach, to look beyond its walls.

“Francisco did not regret the loss of the church’s strength, and he saw that an opportunity to be a poor church for the poor,” he added. He concluded with a clear invitation to the attendees: “You are part of this transformation. It is a testimony that we do not feel preaching from power, but from love, from the bottom, as a society.”

The second intervention, responsible for Monsignor Lucio Ruiz, Dicastery Secretary for Communication, was an invitation to unity and brave commitment. He explained how for the first time in the history of the church, the last Synod A full chapter devoted To the task in digital environments, learn about the urgency and its transformational strength. “The church adopted the digital task as a real task,” he said. “It is a new missionary page in the history of the church.”

With emotion, Monsignor Ruiz urged the digital missionaries to get out of “SACRISTIES digital”, not for stability Love Or the followers, but to go to meet the person who is suffering, and who seeks, who needs.

“It is not a matter of numbers, but love. I am the best thousand influencers with followers, who are interested in him, who know him, and those who love him, influencing a thousand followers who do not know who they are.”

After the meeting, the invitation to participate in the jubilee of digital missionaries, which will be held in Rome on July 28 and 29, was renewed as a moment of grace, confronting and renewing the mission, enthusiastically.

Many of those present at the meeting had planned to participate in the next day in the Blessed Sepulments of Carlo Acute, originally scheduled for Sunday, April 27, But he was suspended after the death of the Holy Father. Carlo – a passionate teenager of Eucharist and preaching on the Internet – is still a beacon for many, and he is a real pioneer in digital photo. The Church today feels the courage and tenderness.

At this time, while the Church is preparing to distinguish the following caliph for Pedro, this meeting was a bright appearance of the most beautiful fruits of Francisco Pontevisch: A church in exit, simple, patient, able to listen and meet.