On the occasion of Jubilee of digital missionaries and Catholic influencers and that of the Youngscheduled in Rome from 28 July to 3 August with numerous events, the San Paolo bookshop in via della Conciliationwhich is located a stone’s throw from St. Peter’s Square, welcomes the pilgrims – about one million are expected – with a special initiative: A video box where you can record a short message of hope, Theme to which the Holy Year is dedicated, answering the question: “What is your hope today?”.
The collected videomexes will be relaunched on social channels (Facebook, Instagram, X) of Christian family (@Famiglia_Cristiana) and of the San Paolo library in via della Conciliazione (@libreriasanasanpaoloconcilionzione), but also by the same author, who will be able to share them on his social networks to contribute to circulating hope.
The goal is to compose A great digital mosaic of faces, dreams and testimonies To show, concretely, that faith can also live the world of the network with authenticity. A proposal that combines welcome, digital communication and testimony of faith as a path of peace and humanity.
“We can all achieve and tell our story on social media,” he explains Don Roberto Ponti, Superior of the Italian Province of the San Paolo Society, “We Paolini invite you to do it also by going from a particular place of communication that is the library. The printed paper in the digital world maintains a particular value and connects us directly to the “verb made flesh”, to the Word of God, To the Bible and from there to the beauty of the whole Apostolate Paolino, a beauty that we want to share and launch towards the digital continent “.
The initiative is linked to that of Jubilee of young people from 2000 When the pilgrims left numerous messages on the Holy Year and the meaning of their pilgrimage to Rome for the World Youth Day with John Paul II.
