On 27 January 2025, the Vatican released Pope Francis’ message for the 33rd World Day of the Sick, which will be celebrated on Tuesday, 11 February 2025. Inspired by the Jubilee Year’s theme of hope, this year’s theme for World Day of the Sick is “‘Hope does not disappoint’ (Rom 5:5), but strengthens us in times of trial.”
Also, because of the Jubilee Year, this year’s World Day of the Sick is closely connected to the Jubilee of the Sick and Health Care Workers on 5-6 April 2025and the Jubilee of People with Disabilities on 28 and 29 April 2025.
To help promote the World Day of the Sick, the CCCB Office for Family and Life has prepared a Resource Toolkit, which includes:
- CCCB press release
- Holy Father’s message
- prayer card
- graphics for social media
- homily notes
- prayers for families and parishes
You are invited to share the following resource links with your diocese/eparchy:
in English: CCCB Communications Toolkit – World Day of the Sick
in French: Trousse de communications de la CECC – Journée mondiale du malade
Additionally, I wish to draw your attention to this important joint press release from the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and the Dicastery for Evangelization:
“World Day of the Sick is celebrated annually on 11 February, liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. Every three years, the celebration takes a solemn form at a Marian Shrine.
Due to the Jubilee Year 2025, the Holy Father Francis has ordered that the solemn celebration, which should take place this year, be held on 11 February 2026 at the Marian Shrine of the Virgen de Chapi, in Arequipa, Peru.
Archbishop Javier Del Rio Alba of Arequipa has welcomed the Holy Father’s decision with great enthusiasm.
In the Jubilee Year, the Church will celebrate World Day of the Sick in the ordinary form, at diocesan level, on 11 February: the Jubilee of the Sick and the World of Healthcare on 5 and 6 April; and the Jubilee of People with Disabilities on 28 and 29 April.”
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