“Christian educators are educators who pray, » said Father Enzo Bono, representative of the Global Compact on Education for the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, while coordinating the Global Prayer of the Uniservitate global network held on 5th February.
At the network’s regular monthly meeting, which has been held virtually for the past three years and moderated each time by a different Uniservitate member institution, Bono added that for Christian educators, “education is already, in a way, prayer, because educating does not merely mean instructing, but forming the whole person, accompanying them in their search for meaning, opening them up to transcendence.”
Father Bono also highlighted the Jubilee of the World of Education, which took place last November in Rome, where Pope Leo XIV “opened a new educational season by setting out several goals for the journey in the years to come” He announced that the Dicastery for Culture and Education will soon publish the Pope’s speeches related to education in a volume that will be available online on the Dicastery’s website in Italian and English. He also noted that “the most important of these texts” is the Apostolic Letter Drawing New Maps of Hope, which sets forth an authentic educational philosophy based on three pillars: a Christian anthropology that recognizes the person as the image of God; an axiology centered on virtue, justice, faith, charity, and hope; and an incarnate, communal pedagogy attentive to the interior life.
In this context, the Global Compact on Education, proposed by Pope Francis and relaunched by Leo XIV, appears as the “guiding star” for the future, enriched with new priorities—inner life, humanization of the digital world, and peacebuilding—and culminating in an exhortation to educators to be prophetic witnesses, artisans of beauty, and sowers of hope.”
The World Prayer brings together teachers and students from around the world who are part of service-learning projects led by universities that are members of the Uniservitate network for a brief moment of communal prayer. It was an initiative of the University of Deusto, which moderated it during its first year in 2024, and continued in 2025 coordinated by the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Uniservitate invites its members to take on the moderation of this proposal for the remaining months of 2026 with the certainty that, as Jesus teaches in the Gospel, the “Father who is in heaven” will grant what two or more gathered in His name ask for.
The recording of the February World Prayer is available on the Uniservitate YouTube channel.
