The Holy Mass was led by the President of the Media Council of the Bishops' Conference of BiH, Archbishop of Vrhbosna Msgr. Tomo Vukšić, in concelebration with the Secretary General of the Bishops' Conference of BiH and Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Press Agency, Rev. Bojan Ivešić, the host parish priest, Rev. Marijan Stojanović and two other priests. At the beginning, the parish priest Stojanović gave a greeting and welcome, saying that this day "celebrates communications and our relationship with each other". He greeted his fellow priests and Archbishop Vukšić as well as several media representatives present. After the scripture readings and the proclamation of the Gospel, the Archbishop of Vrhbosna delivered a commemorative sermon in which he emphasized grace, love, and unity.

For the building of community

First, he recalled that next year will be six decades since the Catholic Church marked World Communications Day in a prayerful manner. "In doing so, we primarily mean the type of communication that we generally call media today, and which, considering the method of communication and the types of these media, are multiplying almost every day. The prayer event that takes place in the Catholic Church primarily wants to be a spiritual support for people who work and donate their time, their energy, their abilities, their talents, which the dear God has given them, to the human community, that is, to the brothers and sisters who use these means and who use the content that especially those people we most often call journalists offer to their readers, viewers, listeners, or those who use the content of their ideas, their thoughts and are enriched by them. When we say that our prayer community on this day, I mean the church community, is ready to express spiritual solidarity and prayer with those who work in the world of the media in various ways, then we first of all think that all of them, as well as all of us, in a different way in relation to them, be at the service of good communication, or rather, providing information and communication of noble ideas, noble events of those things, thoughts and ideas that build both the individual and the human community", the Archbishop of Vrhbosna said.

Transmitting love to others

"Grace, love and communion are three concepts that in their own way summarize the overall content of what we call the Christian way and the Christian content of communication. Grace is above all the blessing of God that is constantly over the human community and over this world (…) Love is – we know all this very well – something that binds and connects every noble intention, every noble desire and every person who believes in such a way. Love is a concrete manifestation of what is called the blessing of God that has come down to us. We, blessed people, as an extended hand and an extended action of God's blessing in the way of love inherited from God Himself, transmit love to other brothers and sisters. And in this way we actually build communion that is again in its source the Divine reality that starts from the Holy Spirit, but we are called in our own way to first witness this communion within the Church and then to transmit it to human communion, society in general. Therefore, grace, love and communion – are, at the same time, both the content and the ways in which we Christians are called to communicate with our world", said, among others, Msgr. Vukšić.

At the end of the Holy Mass - which was animated by the harmonious singing of the parish choir, and was wholeheartedly accepted by the believing people in the packed Prnjavor church - the parish priest expressed his gratitude and invited the priests and media representatives to lunch with the Djaković family, the spouses Kate and Ilija, who gladly hosted them in their home in Drenovi, at the family table. World Communications Day is a day when all believers in diocesan communities in BiH are invited to pray for media workers, to reflect on the role of the media in their lives, and on the message of the Holy Father that he sends every year for that occasion.