PAULINE sisters directly involved in the media apostolate held their annual media practitioners’ assembly and workshop at the Paulines Communication Center in Pasay City on April 5-7.
Twenty one sisters of the Daughters of St. Paul from across the country and Malaysia gathered to share on their apostolic initiatives and map out a more effective response to the challenges they encounter in their respective ministries.
Themed “Truth, Proclamation and Authenticity of Life in the Digital Age”, the seminar touched on the challenges of the media apostolate in the digital age.
Resource speaker during the seminar was Sr. Consolata Manding, FSP, directress of Paulines Institute of Communication in Asia (PICA). She spoke on the culture of communication and expounded on Pope Benedict XVI’s message for 2011 World Communications Day.
Communication is in a flux, Manding said. The radical development of digital technology has altered the way people communicate with one another and so our way of doing the apostolate, she added.
She asked participants of the changes they observed in their practice of communication… among themselves, community, family, friends, and in the apostolate.
Manding dared participants to respond aggressively on the challenges posed by the Holy Father in his message, especially that of using more effectively the new media in the proclamation of the Gospel.
Participants in the assembly were sisters working in ministries that include media literacy education, radio, TV, audio-visual, information technology and pastoral involvement in arch/diocesan commission on social communications and the media office of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
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