Charismatic Aspects of Communication in Pauline

Evangelization

Go into the Go into the whole world and whole world and bring the gospel bring the gospel to all creation. to all creation. I I am with you.am with you.

Evangelization … any processes or actions that Awaken or nurture the faith Build the Church, the Body of Christ Transform the world in Christ

Pope John Paul II invited the church to take a

giant step forwardHe called for a new new evangelizationevangelization, new in methods, new in expression, new in ardor.

Blessed Alberione founded the Pauline Family on this same inspiration …

““Be apostles of Be apostles of todaytoday, use , use the means of the means of todaytoday the the new meansnew means of apostolate.” of apostolate.”

Blessed Alberione felt that in the newnew century generous people would experience what he was feeling.

Pauline SpiritualityThe apostle of the media

is formed through a spiritual life in order to transmit the gospel to others.

In the Pauline spirituality, Father Alberione offered "The whole Christ, Way, Christ, Way, Truth and LifeTruth and Life for the whole person, mind, will and heart."

Mary, Queen of ApostlesMary, Queen of Apostles as the model of faith and love

who leads all to Jesus Master, and forms us for the

mission of communicating God's Word to the world.

St. Paul, the ApostleSt. Paul, the Apostle who lived in intimacy with Christ and spent his energy and his life to proclaim the Good News to all peoples.

Pauline prayer is nourished at the living fonts of the Word of God and the Word of God and the EucharistEucharist.

Pauline prayer is characterized by the daily Hour of AdorationHour of Adoration before

the Blessed Sacrament.

Pauline Charism…

The foundation of the Pauline Spirituality and evangelization is

Human Christian Religious Pauline

Holiness “For me to live is Christ”“For me to live is Christ” St Paul

For me to live is Christ

Paul living today is Christ living today

“Come to me all of you…”

The apostolate of the press is understood as a new formnew form of preaching.

Paulines are called to be new apostlesnew apostles; new missionaries.new missionaries.

"The machine, the microphone, the screen are our pulpit. The printing plant, the production, projection, and broadcasting studios are our Church."

Speak of All in a Christian Way

Reach everyone, especially those who have never heard the gospel

As Paul we are compelled to preach the gospel to everyone

Reach the general public and those who influence others

Bring God to people, bring people to God

Alberione quickly adopted new media languages.

This new evangelization took advantage of the “swiftest and most rapid means” to reach the greatest number of people.

New Evangelization;

New Society;

New Culture of Communication

Evangelization Evangelization not merely as a way of not merely as a way of

speaking, but as a form of living.speaking, but as a form of living.

According to John Paul II,…consumerism is one of several problems,

indeed dangers, emerging within the more advanced economies of Western culture.

…deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

Descriptions of Consumerism

the empty interior,

the broken relationship,

the craving for things,

the degradation of injustice,

the flight from the wounded,

contemporary self as empty, de-centered, displaced, and uprooted,

a self that turns to channel surfing and the mall for new images, gratification, and even a sense of oneself.

Consumerism…plays on the feelings of malaise,

alienation, and discontent. These negative feelings are then used with the promise that products and services will satisfy the

heart’s longing.

Christian are called to create alternative practices that open up a different kind of economic space – the space marked by the body of Christ.

The economy of giving. Eucharist does not begin with scarcity but with one who came that we may have life and have it abundantly.

Paulines Consecrated

• Mission Today

• Apostles Today

• Evangelizing Today

Called to…

incarnate Christ the Divine Master, Way, the Truth

and Life, in the culture

created by communications

media.

for Blessed Alberione and Paulines…

…communication is not a simple

aid to evangelization, but an original

way of preaching, that reaches the

masses which are far away from the

parishes.

Pauline Apostles

The apostle of the media of communication is another Jesus Christ who echoes and amplifies to people of every age and place what Jesus preached and taught on earth.

For Alberione

it is Christ who asks the questions, challenging the world to look at the deepest hopes and needs, and whether it is seeking what will truly make it happy.

Post Modern Culture

"Since the very evangelizationevangelization of modern culture depends to a large extent on the influence of mediainfluence of media, it is not enough simply to spread the Christian message and the Church’s authentic teaching. It is necessary to integrate that message into integrate that message into the ‘new culture’the ‘new culture’ created by modern communications"

Pope John Paul II (Redemptoris Missio, n. 37).

Good news in the news…

Praying world events with the gospel

Gift of Vocation• Publishing House of God

• Publishing House of the Church

• Bread broken and shared

• Way, truth and life for humanity

You will be my witnessesIf witnessing is the way

disciples communicate Christ as Master, Way, Truth and Life in a postmodern world, religious life offers a possibility of witness that is of its very nature a radical form of Christian life.

Fr Silvio Sassi, Superior General

ConsecratedConsecrated

Religious have a special importance in regard to that form of witness which is a primary element of evangelization. This silent witness of poverty, of detachment from the things of this world, of chastity, pure innocence of life, and voluntary obedience…

Pope Paul VI, On Evangelization

Liberty to captives…

For Paulines the liberation of the victims of oppression and injustice must include liberation also from the subtle manipulations media use to exert upon the very hearts and minds of people.

Sacrament of encounter

To evangelize is to communicate. Our mission is a sacramental mission – a sacrament of the encounter with Christ.

Fr. Silvio Sassi

Publishing House of God

Writing, creating, direct evangelization, praying - in whatever environment we find ourselves living and working we are all part of the one Publishing House, the Publishing House of God.

We undertake a mission

We are not owners of the mission.

St Paul tells us we are servants. The initiative for the mission is not ours but God’s given through Christ

Jesus, according to charism entrusted to us.

The mission: communicating with the media…

• TRUTH enlightening the Mind

• WAY conversion to God

• LIFE divine life in the sacraments

Come to me all of

you.Go

into the whole

world.