The story of the birth of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke shows us the concern of pastors to be notified of the happy event.
"Let's go to Bethlehem and see what has happened" (2, 15)
Go to the scene to verify what has happened, get in touch with the players ... is the work of journalism, researches, notes and reports.
We Catholic communicators, we are called to proclaim from the rooftops the Good News that the angel announced.
Let us then, to Bethlehem and see what happened.
Who is over there? Where next? What is your offspring?
Matthew 1, 1-17 is a valuable resource for our research. It is the mystery of a call. The baffling mystery of the choice God made. Abraham, David, Isaac, Jacob, Fares, Tamar, Salmon, Rajah ...
In the genealogy of Jesus we can see that among the kings mentioned therein, Hezekiah and Josiah were only faithful to God, others, idolatrous, immoral and murderers ... even David in the Psalms has confessed the sins of adultery and murder. The women featured are in an irregular situation: Tamar is a sinner, a prostitute Rahab, Ruth, a foreigner.
But that river of sins and crimes, at the end of time, the water becomes clear: with Mary and Jesus are rescued all generations.
God comes to restore his kingdom, to restore the alliance, to build a new town. Is the clear demonstration of God's mercy.
And here we are. Front of the child that we see among the straw, we can not see us involved in this reality of grace and sin that we are each of us. We can not but contemplate the pain, misery, evil, confusion, failure, crime, corruption in the world in which we live. That God so loved the world that he sent his own Son to save him (cf. Jn. 3:16-17).
face the shadows and darkness of the world, resonates strongly in our hearts the words of the prophet Isaiah that Jesus read in the synagogue:
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because I have been consecrated by anointing. He sent me to bring good news to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives, sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord "(Lk 4, 18-19 .)
because Jesus is our only hope. We, his witnesses.
This is just our way of holiness as Catholic communicators. This ad is the realization of the vocation to which we were called, the deployment of the gifts received, the urgent need that the world is the bread that feeds the hunger for God, existing in the hearts of all men.
We are in Bethlehem. We note the fact occurred, announced by Gabriel. We see the boy, who is God. Astonished look to the Word made flesh.
And that is where we remember that before "doing" must "be", because the communicator, before "say words" should "be Word."
listening is in obedience and conscious acceptance with the God who speaks to us, where we acquire the wisdom to read the signs of the times through the eyes of Christ and thus to influence creativity in history.
social communicators are constant readers of the signs that mark the times everyday men and women of every age, and it is from there where we did our task communication, powerfully influencing culture.
But if this reading is not with the eyes of Christ will be because other interests that move us to action. May be many gains and high percentage of our audience, but will not be our task a service to the common good, but in response to personal and selfish interests. This is where communication alienates and does not release. Being
Word. That is our mission. Word made man, the incarnate Word who reveals the mystery of man and gives deeper meaning to life.
not just our words will then be convinced that the existence of God, which produce deep and incisive changes in cultural values, which consolation the pain of the poor, sick and suffering, but will be the same Word of God incarnate within us to speak of.
This experience of faith is the message that we receive to transmit mission. The fruit of what grace has done for us. Therefore, we should communicate not only our reflection on the Word of God, but rather what she has done once received in the land of our life.
"What we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have seen and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life is what we proclaim" (1 Jn. 1, 1-2) And the fruit
more accurate word is charity reception. Well, if we are charitable, we are nothing (cf. 1 Cor. 13.2). If we learned the art of love, Christianity is more attractive and beautiful. This is what communication should reflect our productions forever because love is the first evangelization. Only Christian love can change the hearts and preparing the way for the proclamation of the Gospel.
detail in our chronic poverty in Bethlehem we are seeing, the pettiness that has taken such a great God. And do not stop to contemplate.
It encourages us to see small. Because small is our love, our works of mercy small, small and poor our language, our techniques, our media, our resources ...
When you aspire to greatness, when we rejoice with the masses only when we glory in the works that come in our view, when applaud our great tasks, while pride and vanity dominate our mission, back to Bethlehem. Remember the God of small numbers: in the middle of the crowd that followed him stopped in front of the blind man who was on the verge of the road, asked to stay with Zacchaeus, compared his kingdom with a grain of mustard with a little yeast; sent his disciples without money or power, without scrip nor staff appreciated the penny to the widow deposited in the treasury of the temple, took just five loaves and two fishes to feed a crowd ...
And by the little boy is a little mother ...
not we leave Bethlehem without interviewing Mary colloquial dialogue. Only she can tell us how to live the humility that is taught in the portal, only she will tell us how God works wonders in the small ...
We are poor ... as these shepherds, like Joseph, like Mary and like God himself. Choose to be poor ... because only then can God do his work. Never
poverty afflicts us. We have more than five loaves and two sins to multiply ... However many times is so little that we do not let God ... is so little that we not to obey God, our ministry is so barren for not letting the Spirit overshadows us, is so little influence our message for not letting God speak to us, it's so hard to keep our invitation to love God us ...
not know what to say about what happened in Bethlehem. I do not know what details of our reviews are the best sellers. Do not even know the interest you have the research we have done in the manger.
only know that there we find the Savior knocking on the doors of the heart, looking for the game, getting close. Unraveling the mystery of God's communication, spoken through the prophets and in this end time definitively tells us in his Son, the Word made flesh that dwelt among us.
went to make contact with the characters of Christmas, to interview them and take out a word, and we felt challenged by them. We spoke with the witness. Without saying anything we have said all .-
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