Everyone needs the Gospel. The Gospel is for everyone. With this awareness, the Church has never broken the evangelization of culture where it is inserted. Through it all stages of history have sought new ways to bring the Gospel to everyone.
technological age with their specific systems of communication, once again challenge to make his message accessible to the new languages \u200b\u200bof the Media of Social Communication
Should the Church make use of new media in their task of announcing the Gospel? No doubt the positive response to this question. Answer that makes sense of urgency and necessity of great opportunity and gift of the Divine Providence gives us a wealth of gifts to operationalize the mission and, where it reaches unsuspected numbers of men and women hungry for a message of life and sense of reason to walk around the world, and project the same life into a reality that transcends the ephemeral and transient daily ride to the stable and enduring faith.
exists in the Church in Latin America, a certain perception of the importance of social communication, but we can always see how that reality affects all human relationships and the same ministry.
However, we could enumerate small to great efforts to use modern means of promoting digital era approach for dialogue and contact men and women of this time.
Have you done so far fully meets the demands of the moment?
The lacking training, creativity and resources are among the factors that have made many efforts inadequate in this area. We have a long way to go, retrieving past experience, capitalizing on the efforts of the present, thinking and engaging our talents in this mission, commanded by Christ to "go around the world announcing the Gospel" (Mk 16: 15 - 18)
weeks ago, the mass media in Argentina echoed the experience of young people carried out by a priest of a diocese the country.
"bolicheras Masses." "Cure Flogger." "The priest cheto wearing sneakers and jeans," were some of the titles that showed a renewed Church, which seeks to bring youth to God from his own youth reality. The use of new technologies and communication systems are part of the proposed Parish Avellaneda, Province of Santa Fe in Argentina.
The new social networks, used as tools of the new evangelization, have made young people do experience the faith from their everyday lives and receive from their language, the message of the Lord is always new. The most valuable
Father Sebastian's work with young people in Argentina is the communion of a parish pastoral plan for young people in the industry. He himself said to be only the visible face of this "young move which offers a space separate from the" kids ", communicating the Gospel" with a different package, with a new mode of communication. " Lights, smoke, sound and laser effects are part of the proposal at the time of celebrating the Eucharist, which young people feel part and play to participate and collaborate.
The transmission of values \u200b\u200bis one of the most important aspects in the life of a person. Although the values \u200b\u200bare inculcated primarily in the nucleus family, young people's learning in the environment where they spend their time. Media are those with stronger impact on him and do not always give lessons of morality, forgetting that young people need fundamental principles of honesty, truthfulness and uprightness of conscience, in order to improving their lives.
Therefore, the search for new methods in the new evangelization is fidelity to the call to take into account the phenomenon of communication and their implications are pastoral responses to adapt to this new reality, integrating the communication to the Pastoral de Conjunto. Today
found in digital media communications technology resources more suitable to represent the relationship with God and even help to further and more adequate participation in the same liturgies. It's unthinkable today to establish any kind of communication without regard to pastoral systems and resources of its own visual language of modern man.
"As the digital divide is evident, parishes, communities, cultural centers and educational institutions would be encouraged Catholic creation of network points and digital screens to promote inclusion, developing new initiatives and building, with a positive outlook, those that already exist. In Latin America and the Caribbean there are magazines, newspapers, websites, portals and online services that are informative and educational content as well as various social and religious orientations, such as "priest", "spiritual advisor", "guidance counselor", "teacher", "doctor" among others. There are many Catholic schools and institutions offering distance education courses in theology and biblical culture "(DA 499)
Emerging technologies made the communication system via the web is today the most used by all mortals, mails, chats, messages, voice mail, IP telephony, forums, etc.. Through a simple machine, sitting in our homes, communicate anywhere in the world without paying extra cost. This is why we can rightly say that the Internet was a phenomenon that has achieved the most significant advances in communication. The same media
, marvelous technical inventions, are the same as used in an arbitrary manner results in the handling of messages according to sectoral interests, have often become a vehicle of propaganda of the prevailing materialism and consumerism, and believe in our people false expectations, needs fictitious serious frustration and a desire to unhealthy competition. It's another reason why, with a professional and exemplary, we must hear them a message of life, hope, comfort for the pain and strength to fight, a claim of injustice and liberation, brotherhood and fellowship.
For the Church the new world of cyberspace is a summons to the great adventure of using its potential to proclaim the Gospel message, "says the document of Aparecida, while noting that the Church is approaching these new media with realism and confidence, saying that the Internet can offer magnificent opportunities for evangelization if used with competence and a clear awareness of their strengths and weaknesses. (Cf. DA 272).
has written Pope Benedict XVI: "The easy access to mobile phones and computers, joined the global dimension and the widespread presence of Internet, have multiplied the means to instantly send words and images over long distances and even the most remote places in the world. This possibility was unthinkable for previous generations. Especially young people have realized the enormous potential of new media to facilitate connection, communication and understanding between people and communities, and use them to get in touch with friends, meeting new friends, to create communities and networks for information and news to share their ideas and opinions. In this new culture of communication derive many benefits: families can stay in touch even though its members are far away from each other, and students and researchers with easy and immediate access to documents, sources and scientific discoveries, and thus working together from different places, in addition, the interactive nature of new media facilitates more dynamic forms of learning and communication that contribute to social progress "(Message JMCS-'09)
Although the immediacy of this medium in front of the" success "book of members, supporters and results, we can not forget that this is not the method of the Kingdom of God. Evangelizing will always act again courageously and with the humility of granite mustard, leaving God to decide when and how to grow (cf. Mk 4, 26-29).
San Pablo, at the end of his life, he had the impression that he had brought the Gospel to the ends of the earth, but Christians were small communities scattered throughout the world, insignificant according to secular criteria. In fact they were the leaven that penetrates into the body and carried within them the future of the world (cf. Mt 13, 33).
The pope has urged us to feel committed to introduce into the culture of this new communications and information environment the values \u200b\u200bthat underpin our lives. In the early days of the Church, the Apostles and their disciples brought the Good News of Jesus to the world Greco-Roman. Just as, at that time to bear fruit, he needed a careful understanding of the culture and customs of the pagan peoples, to touch your mind and heart, so now the message of Christ in the world new technologies require in-depth knowledge to use them after properly. (See Message JMCS '09)
How to sustain and evangelical missionary presence in the digital world and be effective that ad?
The missionary disciple must always be an attentive listener to the Word. Aware of their precarious living and limits. Be the first to confront life with the Gospel message and feel challenged by it and invited constant conversion. Your must be provided before the Lord. To evangelize is to bring men to God and God to men.
is this experience of encounter and prayer, contemplation and spiritual experience, enrichment in dealing with the Master, which drives the mission, to share the good news to others. Evengelii
Nuntiandi reminds us that the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, noting voice of Paul VI, that "modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, or listening to teachers, it is because they witness "(cf. EN 41).
This announcement, which is witness to our faith experience, which will communicate credible. Only the words are not enough. Herein lies the secret of success of evangelization. Jesus can be seen by our word and our witness.
Many times it seems that the task of evangelizing tends to be in the hands of experts, with big budgets and appropriate resources. We forget there that evangelization is a personal task at any time, anywhere. Here it is the memory of those who changed their own history and the history of others, only the message of salvation with the few resources they had at the time. Today, new technologies, offer unprecedented opportunities undreamed of and effective communication.
The task in the Parish of Avellaneda, in the presence of Father Sebastian in the world of youth, creativity at the service of evangelization, the audiovisual world's technological resources, new methods to share the gospel, joy as the first announcement the proximity of the sacred to the profane, the enthusiasm for the mission, the witness of consecrated life, the deep love for the people, are key to pastoral work. Are the reality of an active hope, wealth of the Church never tires or tire of announcing their experience of God to the ends of the world. It is the dynamism that kept alive throughout the world. Is that evangelism is a feature of his being, and its protagonist is the same Lord, who always calls and waiting, looking and attracts, persuades and transforms.
technology is not characterized by static, but on the contrary, is in constant motion leading to new inventions that then become massive. The dynamism of the Spirit that animates us in tune with his language and encourages us to, overcome the fear of the technological revolution, seize their potential and to apply it creatively in evangelism. Thus, we players, builders and participants in a reality that needs to be illuminated and transformed by real experiences of meeting fraternity, fellowship and dialogue, bearer of a reality that transcends it's an ad that makes life full and a call to give more life.
Internet, email, web pages, file formats, connection speed, server, webcam, interface, scanner, compression, distribution lists, access providers, Boolean operators, discussion forums, chats, cyber, virtual media, hypertext , portals are part of the new digital world. Our challenge is not only to adapt to this change, but to venture to make communication we want, without complexes or fanaticism, because there is a new opportunity for the media to communicators for the pastoral and the Church as a whole. Opportunity to recognize as a sign of Divine Province and commitment we can not renounce.
