...Jesus calls his disciples to evaluate the quality of their listening. “Take heed then how you hear” (Lk 8:18): this is what he exhorts them to do after recounting the parable of the sower, making it understood that it is not enough simply to listen, but that it is necessary to listen well. Only those who receive the word with an “honest and good” heart and keep it faithfully bear the fruit of life and salvation (cf. Lk 8:15). It is only by paying attention to whom we listen, to what we listen, and to how we listen that we can grow in the art of communicating, the heart of which is not a theory or a technique, but the “openness of heart that makes closeness possible” (cf. Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium, 171)."
- from Pope Francis' for World Communications Day
The Catholic Communication Campaign is an annual national collection to support evangelization through the internet, television, radio, and print publications. This annual collection is taken up in the Diocese of Providence the second weekend in June in support of the work of the diocesan Communications Office.