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Media-ted GodIn truth, we speak boldly, in a context

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The Fundamentals

World view: we need to change the way we see life

Culture: we must develop our culture and communication: pathos, logos, ethos

Language: we must choose an appropriate language to speak the Truth

Relationship: we must go out to reach the unreachable: The Pauline Mission

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The Belief

"We believe and so we speak, with bold and prophetic faith, we offer every one "the Charity of Truth"

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Context – Text - Communicate

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GOODNESS

“a law inscribed in the heart of every Daughter of St. Paul: “As long as it does good!” Therefore, go out, set forth, seek, bring the Word of life to the most distant house in the smallest village.”

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Passion to communicate the TRUTH

To the sheep outside the fold: the Pauline Parish

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FSP “exudes God from her very pores.”

In the marrow of our bones

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With the Courage of St Paul

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“to the point of death–death on a cross” (Phil.

2:8).

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the real key to being a Pauline is to feel, like St. Paul, an inner urgency to communicate Christ’s joy

and hope to as many people as possible.

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love for God, which compels us to communicate him, and love for humanity, which prompts us to find the right languages and instruments to ensure that our message will reach the hearts of everyone” (DC 2001, 31).

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“Our book centers must become, more and more, human “arms” that warmly welcome and embrace their clients”

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The QuestionIt is not what we need ito talk, we know, it is God of

TruthBut how do we express that

truth to today’s world?

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The context

We live in an objectified world. Everything is object for commerce (profit) and pleasure. Relationship is object for pleasure. Use and throw culture determines the dynamics of life

It comes from capitalistic ethic: what is the use and how much the profit.

Materialism is the priority, not VALUES: goodness, beauty, and truth

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Show World

How do we show GOD, the charity of truth, to the world in which reel has more

value than real?

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Give priority to pastoral content that treats the great issues of today in the light of the Word of God: the education to values and to the meaning of life. (8th GC)

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The Dialectic

Mission of the Word

Culture

People

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World view

Our way of looking first at our religious life. Vocation or profession. Our call of God to mission

Our way of looking at our mission of proclaiming the Word: from the Word to word? Or From the Word to Flesh?

The Paulian world view: conversion to commitment. His emphasis on JESUS as model of life; personal attachment to HIM

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It is an ATTITUDE :Your book centers are centers of apostolate, not show windows in the usual sense of the word, but places from which to teach about St. Paul and the Gospel; not stores but a service; not sales but an apostolate with many initiatives; not customers but disciples and cooperators; not business and finance, but the Gospel that spreads light and warmth throughout the area; not prices but offerings; not domination but humble collaboration with the Church; not money but souls (CVV 16 )

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Culture

•Behaviour •Habits

Micro culture

•Relationship •Experience

Macro culture

•Identity •Power

Symbols

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Only then will we be able to “feel” with Jesus Christ, that is to say, to make his thoughts and feelings our own: “Everything in the heart of Jesus should be in the heart of the apostle of the press” (AS 29).

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Cultural Matrix

Pathos: how we feel about the word and mission

Logos: how we think about the wordEthos: how we act on the word

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Language

Discursive formulation as power to assign status in hierarchy ( Michel Foucault)

Language is coded in and through a locus of a context, geographical situation

Meaning is understood by understanding the context (context-text-communication)

Understanding the Language of the people and language of God

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Relationship “Connecting with the Disconnected”

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A characteristic of the Pauline apostle is her way of relating to the world.

We are in the world–that is, we live within specific structures and societies.

Like Paul, we must have “a heart immense enough to embrace the entire world [...] and learn from him the art of ‘being all things to all people,’ as well as the flexibility that will enable us to interact with people in keeping with their physical, intellectual, moral, religious and civil circumstances” (cf. AE 37).

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The Mission Strategy

CULTURE: Counter-culture to the current culture: value based, personhood, not objecthood

COMMUNICATION: making connections with the unconnected by using their language

GOD: Jesus is our content, not the profit in our stores

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The Word

the centrality of the Word of God, which should characterize our choices of content, in keeping with the invitation of Alberione to “speak of everything in a Christian way” (CD 2007, n. 28).

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Why talk only the Bible directly?

Bible in Face Book Connect with the youth through SMSUpload in YouTubeSpeak the Word through blogs

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What is it: The Glo Bible, a multimedia, digital version of the bible.

What's in it: 7,000 articles, 2,000 images and more than 500 virtual tours of holy sites.

Cost: $80Apps….

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Language

Our language must be “consistent with the circumstances of our receivers and suited to the time, the place and the instrument of communication” (Const. 19).

When Karl Rahner was asked what he thought was the greatest problem facing the Church today, he replied: “I’m not the one who should say this…but I think it is that of proclaiming the Christian message using the language of ordinary people; to speak the way they speak.”

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We must move out of our archaic and verbose discourse

Short, interesting, lively: Present tense, not compound sentence

We should not PREACH, we should talk about their longing and let them know that Jesus is for them

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Sensitivity to Context

Always alert to the signs of the times, we will be ready to take on for evangelization the swiftest and most effective means that progress provides and the necessities and conditions of the times require (Const. 3).

“apply our creativity and pastoral concern to the discovery of new ways to penetrate society with the Gospel, involving the Christian community in this task” (art. 24).

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Todays youth are NOT RELIGIOUS but very SPIRITUAL

Today’s world goes for SPEED, QUALITY, and PROFESSIONALISM

Money matters more than anythingVisuals more than print

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Communication

Our language is born out of the social context/geographical location

Our language should be people’s language that touches the hearts of the people

Our communication must create a CARTHASIS – purge of emotions leading to interior modification

It must MOVE the people

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Ways of Becoming Competent

CommunicatorHelp to formulate strategies

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Convert from where you are Like St Paul we need to have an interior modification

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What is your Passion? This comes from our vocation and experience: why I am here. Religious life is vocation, not a profession

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Connect with the people organicallyBeing in touch with the world CONSTANTLY

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Be Bold to witnessBold is beautiful

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Create communities who do your missionLike St Joseph, we do not need to be in the limelight

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What are our Channels of communication?Media today spin the story to suit their agenda. We should create channels to expose the TRUTH

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Social Marketing

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Building CompetenciesDeveloping Human Resources

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What we should

1. Our communication should change the people’s world view of life (value based)2. We should stand as counter-culture to the culture of today3. We should have effective language that connects with the people

4. We must build communes of FSP that spread the Word5. We must become good story tellers, not preachers6. The content must always be JESUS

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It is not by our expertise, but His technology: He speaksFrom Moses to St Paul…..daughters of St Paul

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As consecrated Paulines, we should be able to express our radical belonging to the Lord and the prophetic power that springs from a life lived in and for a mission that we carry out together: as communities, as a Congregation, as the Pauline Family, as Church……

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Go out and make the changeBe that change

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courage of st paul

word of life

god of truthbut

objectified world

todays world

fundamentals world view

paulian world view