Have you ever promoted an event every way possible including multiple pulpit, bulletin, website and social media announcements, bulk email, and posters? Perhaps you have had parishioners speak at the Masses about it and then after the event hear or read the comment: “Why didn’t I hear about this?” or “I would have come if I had known about it.”?
Category: Communications
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Say Only the Good Things
Good communications are a challenge for every organization. While some people have the communications task, everyone has the responsibility to be a good communicator. What does that mean? Here are some thoughts for all communicators and those for whom communication is a ministry especially those who publish online.
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Synod Theme 1: Journeying Companions
Pope Francis asks: “When we say: “our Church,’ who is part of it? Who is asking us to journey together? Who are the road companions, including those outside the ecclesial perimeter? What persons or groups are left on the margins, expressly or in fact?” These are important questions that we will be answering as dioceses in The Listening Phase of the Synod process (2021-2022). The answers will be greatly influenced…
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Spirit-Filled Communications
The season of Easter ends with the great feast of Pentecost—the birthday on the Church. On the first Pentecost Sunday the Holy Spirit empowered the disciples to carry out the mission given them by Jesus: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature.” (Mark 16:15) That same Spirit empowers and inspires us for mission today.
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The Life-Giving Adventure of Encounter
This past Sunday, May 16, 2021, we celebrated the 54th World Communications Day. The theme selected by Pope Francis for this year was “Come and See” (Jn 1:46). Communicating by Encountering People Where and as They Are.
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Encountering People as They Are
“This year, then, I would like to devote this Message [for World Communications Day] to the invitation to “come and see”, which can serve as an inspiration for all communication that strives to be clear and honest, in the press, on the internet, in the Church’s daily preaching and in political or social communication. “Come and see!” This has always been the way that the Christian faith has been communicated,…