CBCP Episcopal Commission on Social Communications
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Showing posts with label wcd 2014. Show all posts
Friday, May 9, 2014
Draft 2 of the Summary of the 48th World Communications Day Message of the Holy Father, Pope Francis
You may download the summary here. Please distribute it to your parishes to be delivered in your homilies this June 1, 2014, Ascension Sunday. Thank you!
Sunday, May 4, 2014
COMMUNICATION AT THE SERVICE OF AN AUTHENTIC CULTURE OF ENCOUNTER: A SUMMARY
A SUMMARY BASED ON THE MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER, POPE FRANCIS ON THE
OCCASION OF THE 48TH WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY ON ASCENSION SUNDAY,
JUNE 1, 2014
BY FR. JOSELITO JOPSON, ECE, M.A. COMM, SICL
Executive Secretary, CBCP Episcopal Commission on Social Communications
We are enamored by all sorts of gadgets and technological advancements right within our reach.
The world of the internet contains the most exciting arena for communications like social networking and establishing links anywhere around the globe in an instant.
But despite such advancements, divisions still run deep. “The world suffers from exclusion, marginalization, and poverty that borders around the combination of economic, political, ideological, and even religious motives.” (Pope Francis, 48th World Communications Day Message)
For this year marking the 48th World Communications Day on Ascension Sunday, the Holy Father Pope Francis underscores an authentic culture of encounter among the people in the vast world of social communications.
Dubbed with the theme, “Communication at the service of the an authentic culture of encounter”, the Holy Father stresses on communication as an “ultimately human rather than a technological achievement.”
Quoting from the document, “A culture of encounter needs a listening ear and an understanding heart that listens to different cultures and traditions.”
According to the Holy Father, the parable of the Good Samaritan provides the key to the very heart of communications: “Who is my neighbor?”
The document states: “Communication is not aimed at promoting consumption or manipulating others ... we are dealing with a form of violent aggression like that suffered by the man in the parable, who was beaten by robbers and left abandoned on the road. The Levite and the priest do not regard him as a neighbour, but as a stranger to be kept at a distance. Nowadays there is a danger that certain media so condition our responses that we fail to see our real neighbour.”
“It is not enough to be passersby on the digital highways, simply “connected”; connections need to grow into true encounters.”
The Holy Father explains, “We need to love and be loved. The world of media is called to tenderness… the digital highway is teeming with people who are hurting, men and women looking for salvation or hope.”
The Holy Father Pope Francis encourages all Catholics to practice neighborliness to all even in the vast world of social networks.
“Show that the Church is home to all. The social networks are one way to experience this call to discover the beauty of the faith, the beauty of encountering Christ.
Neighborliness demands that we dialogue with men and women, understand expectations, doubts and hopes, and bring them the Gospel, Jesus himself.
Let our communication be a balm relieving pain and fine wine to gladden our hearts… the challenge of media is to share with others the beauty of God.”
Let us practice neighborliness in social networks and let the beauty of God emanate from this wonderful technology!
OCCASION OF THE 48TH WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY ON ASCENSION SUNDAY,
JUNE 1, 2014
BY FR. JOSELITO JOPSON, ECE, M.A. COMM, SICL
Executive Secretary, CBCP Episcopal Commission on Social Communications
We are enamored by all sorts of gadgets and technological advancements right within our reach.
The world of the internet contains the most exciting arena for communications like social networking and establishing links anywhere around the globe in an instant.
But despite such advancements, divisions still run deep. “The world suffers from exclusion, marginalization, and poverty that borders around the combination of economic, political, ideological, and even religious motives.” (Pope Francis, 48th World Communications Day Message)
For this year marking the 48th World Communications Day on Ascension Sunday, the Holy Father Pope Francis underscores an authentic culture of encounter among the people in the vast world of social communications.
Dubbed with the theme, “Communication at the service of the an authentic culture of encounter”, the Holy Father stresses on communication as an “ultimately human rather than a technological achievement.”
Quoting from the document, “A culture of encounter needs a listening ear and an understanding heart that listens to different cultures and traditions.”
According to the Holy Father, the parable of the Good Samaritan provides the key to the very heart of communications: “Who is my neighbor?”
The document states: “Communication is not aimed at promoting consumption or manipulating others ... we are dealing with a form of violent aggression like that suffered by the man in the parable, who was beaten by robbers and left abandoned on the road. The Levite and the priest do not regard him as a neighbour, but as a stranger to be kept at a distance. Nowadays there is a danger that certain media so condition our responses that we fail to see our real neighbour.”
“It is not enough to be passersby on the digital highways, simply “connected”; connections need to grow into true encounters.”
The Holy Father explains, “We need to love and be loved. The world of media is called to tenderness… the digital highway is teeming with people who are hurting, men and women looking for salvation or hope.”
The Holy Father Pope Francis encourages all Catholics to practice neighborliness to all even in the vast world of social networks.
“Show that the Church is home to all. The social networks are one way to experience this call to discover the beauty of the faith, the beauty of encountering Christ.
Neighborliness demands that we dialogue with men and women, understand expectations, doubts and hopes, and bring them the Gospel, Jesus himself.
Let our communication be a balm relieving pain and fine wine to gladden our hearts… the challenge of media is to share with others the beauty of God.”
Let us practice neighborliness in social networks and let the beauty of God emanate from this wonderful technology!
CELEBRATION OF WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY 2014
ATTN: ALL ARCHBISHOPS, BISHOPS, DIOCESAN ADMINISTRATORS,
DIOCESAN MINISTERS OF SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Your Eminences / Excellencies / Reverend Administrators /
Monsignors / Reverend Fathers / Brothers and Sisters in Christ:
Greetings in the Risen Lord!
Each year, the Catholic Church celebrates the World Communications
Day on Ascension Sunday. This day, now
on its 48th anniversary, falls on June 1, 2014, with the theme “Communications
at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter”.
I am sending the WCD message of the Holy Father, Pope
Francis and a summary of the document as well as a 5 minute video which you can
reproduce for your parishes to be delivered during homilies.
Second, in line with this celebration, there will be a
Second Collection in all masses. 20
percent of the proceeds will be used for the pastoral projects of the Episcopal
Commission on Social Communications while the rest will be used for your
Diocesan Ministry of Social Communications.
Please remit your contributions to the “CBCP Episcopal Commission on
Social Communications and Mass Media” or simply “CBCP-ECSC”. You may also deposit directly to BPI account
no. 4951-0078-17 as soon as possible.
Please inform us of this deposit through email or telephone.
I thank you wholeheartedly for your support and assistance
to a worthy cause that always seeks to update the faithful on the language of
mass media as a potent tool for the new evangelization.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
(sgd.) +MYLO
HUBERT C. VERGARA, D.D.
Commission Head
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