World Communications Day observed and launched by CBC Social Communications Commission

Gerehu, Port Moresby: The 59th World Communications Day was observed on Sunday June 1, 2025 at St Charles Lwanga Parish, Gerehu.

(Altar servers, the two priests, communion ministers and dancers from Bougainville pose for a group picture after mass)

The small but significant program had everyone participating in the solemn mass before the launching. The New Guinea Islands region led a beautiful liturgy with angelic singing. 

The mass had Fr Walter Pilai MSC as the main celebrant with Parish Priest Fr Robert Spania MSC as the concelebrant.

In a fitting homily for the occasion, Fr Walter shared that the concept of heaven is not a place up in the sky but it is within us, unfortunately, limitations of this world does not allow us to experience this heaven. 

(SOCOM Secretary Sr Daisy Anne Lisania Augustine Lisania MSC distributing the World Communications Day materials to the parishioners after mass)

He then reflected on the gospel of Luke 24:46 - 53 saying that Jesus in the Gospel is like a father travelling to a distant land and promising to bring back gifts for his children if they behave themselves in his absence.

“We are called to be living witnesses and communicators of God’s love in our daily lives, not just in church, our wantoks or neighbours, but to everyone”

During launch, students from Sacred Heart Teachers College carried special symbols of communication: a kundu signifying the different means of communication, a map signifying the global community we live in and candles signifying hope.

(Sacred Heart Teachers College students with SOCOM Secretary after the mass)

SOCOM Secretary Sr Daisy Anne Lisania Augustine MSC expressed her heartfelt gratitude to the Parish for hosting the WCD launching and said the celebrations of WCD will continue throughout the month of June in the dioceses.