SHCP SOCCOM SUPPORT OUR PARISH WEBSITE 2

www.sacredheartcathedralkk.org

Dr. Damian Lee 19/09/2015

Overview

• Introduction - SOCCOM• The Perfect Communicator.• Connectivity and Reaching out.• Communicating as a Parish Family.• Connection matters @ SHCP Parish website.• Challenges of SOCCOM. • The way forward.

What is SOCCOM?

• SHCP SOCCOM – Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish Social Communication Committee.

• Launched on 22/10/12.• To revive, rejuvenate and develop a viable,

suatainable and effective Parish level Social communication in form and substance for evangelization by reaching out to all SHC Parishioners and beyound.

Introducing SOCCOM

• Follow up mini workshop 2• 1st workshop on 22/10/2014• 26 groups / ministries took part.• Not everyone had a chance to work through

due to "congestion" of wifi traffic.• Rewired and upgraded internet infra

structure with minimum costs - compliments and hard work from Fr. Mitchely & Technical team.

What is Social Communication?• A relatively new term that has emerged slightly

more than 1 decade ago.• Not a ‘new’ concept –only renaming/rebranding.• A regrouping & re-categorizing 3 known concepts

(1) Social interaction, Social skills, (2) Communication or Communication skills & (3) Language or Language skills.

What is Social Communication?

• The interaction of social skills & communication and language connects and interlaps, resulting in one’s ability to communicate with one another socially .

• Hence rebranded - Social Communication. • Process to connect & communicate with PEOPLE –

The What, the How and Why.

The Perfect Communicator• Jesus is the greatest

communicator who ever walked the earth. (Matthew 13:3, 10-13)

• Jesus shared most of His message through stories or parables.

• He shared seven of them in this chapter.

• He used the power of simple, familiar narratives.

The Perfect Communicator

• The communicator takes something complicated and makes it simple.

• The educator takes something simple and makes it complicated.

The Great Communicator• St. Peter when he spoke at Pentecost, Acts 2:

14- 41. More tham 3000 converted.

• St. Paul in Acts 17:22 spoke on Unknown God at Mars Hill or Areopagus at Athens, or Council of the Elders like Senate/ supreme court.

The Great Communicator

Catholic Church in Social Communication

• 1. “Inter Mirifica” - The Vatican Council II Decree on Media of Social Communications.

• Approved by a vote of 1,960 to 164 Bishops assembled & promulgated on 4th, December 1963 by Blessed Pope Paul VI.

Catholic Church in Social Communication

• 2. An expansion and update of Inter Mirifica document called Communio et Progressio on Pastoral Instruction published on 23/3/1971.

• 3. A further document, Aetatis Novae, on Pastoral Instruction was published in 1992.

• 4. In 2005, Blessed John Paul II wrote his final apostolic letter, The Rapid Development, on the topic of social communications

AN- Pastoral Instructions

• Aetatis Novae (AN) declared that the Church

has an obligation to use the social media. • “Along with traditional means such as

witness of life, personal contact, the liturgy, the use of media is now essential in evangelization & catechesis”. (AN 11)

AN- Pastoral Instructions

• Modern means of communication are included in Jesus Christ teaching to share the Faith with all the world - Matthew 28:18 - go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them.....

• Indeed, ‘the Church would feel guilty before the Lord if she did not utilize these powerful means that human skill is daily rendering more perfect’.” (AN, 11) .

2015 World Communications Day• Pope Francis selected the theme:

Communicating the Family -• The family is where and when we first learn

"how" to communicate.

Learning to communicate• When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the

infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb’

• (Lk 1:41-42)

Communicating the Family

• The first response to Mary’s greeting is given by the child, who leaps for joy in the womb of Elizabeth.

• Joy at meeting others, which is something we learn even before being born, is, in one sense, the archetype and symbol of every other form of communication.

• This episode shows us how communication is a dialogue intertwined with the language of the body

Communicating the Family

• The womb which hosts us is the first “school” of communication, a place of listening and physical contact where we begin to familiarize ourselves with the outside world within a protected environment, with the reassuring sound of the mother’s heartbeat.

Communicating the Family• This encounter between two persons, so

intimately related while still distinct from each other, an encounter so full of promise, is our first experience of communication.

• It is an experience which we all share, since each of us was born of a mother.

Communicating the Family• In the family, we learn to embrace and

support one another, to discern the meaning of facial expressions and moments of silence, to laugh and cry together with people who did not choose one other yet are so important to each other.

Pope Francis uses video conference

• As a prelude to his forth coming visit to

Washington, D.C., New York & Philadelphia, USA from 23rd -28th September, 2015, Pope Francis communicates via satellite video conferenc with 3 groups of people from different cities of USA hosted & broadcast on Friday evening, 4 September, on the ABC television network, “World News Tonight”.

Pope Francis uses video conference

• Students of Chicago Cristo Re Jesuit High School, serving poor marginalized young people;

• Men and women of homeless shelters in Los Angeles, and volunteers from the shelters;

• Parishioners of Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, Texas, located 5 miles from the border with Mexico.

• The broadcast lasted 90 minutes, during which the Pope answered in Spanish with a few lines in English.

Pope Francis uses video conference

• Pope Francis concluded his virtual audience:• “Meeting you fills me with hope. I am

praying for you, for all the people of the United States, and I ask you to please pray for me. Thank you”.

Connect to Communicate

• “Media can help us greatly, the internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.”

• It’s not enough to be passersby on the streets and digital highways of our world: Be the Good Samaritan, by reaching out to their neighbour through social media.

Knowing SHCP through Parish website.

• 1. Fastest way to know SHCP is through it’s website - important and key information are all available@: www.sacredheartcathedralkk.org

• 2. Our website was launched on 9th June 2013.

Knowing SHCP through Parish website.

• Website has provision for 3 languages – English, Mandarin and BM.

• Over 90% of articles and news are in English.• Less than 5% in BM• Less than 5% in Mandarin.

Challenges facing Soccom

• 1 Chinese sp Youth- BM & English sp. Youth, PFPN- no representatives

• Lack of competent translators.• A translating team – From English to BM,

Mandarin and Vice Versa.

Sustainable Website

• Monthly articles/ update on PFPN/ ministry and sharing would make our website sustainable, informative, dynamic & preferred.

• Invitation to join Soccom to all group leaders/ PFPN coordinators/individuals who are passionate in Social communication to participate, contribute your time, ideas & share expertise to evangelize in social media.

Challenges of Communication

• The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another.

• Today we are living in a world which is growing ever “smaller” yet it seems diffidult and not easier to talk and communicate with our neighbours.

Challenges of Communication

• ‘Communicating the Family’ .• The challenge of communication within

families & between generations.• Digital technology has in some ways created

even greater differences and isolation between parents and children.

• Archbishop Celli, head of Vatican Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

The Way forward

• Acknowledge, understand & learn Social media as they are powerful Communication tools.

• Coming here with enthusiasm and positive attitude & Learning from Website 2 seminar.

• Coming to terms with digital technology and internet knowledge.

The way forward

• Let’s build together SHC Parish website into a Powerful evangelizing tool for the Parish.

• Enjoy your new found interest & hobby in reaching out through technologies and personal contacts and at the same time empower SHCP Website to be the Parish Pastoral Encyclopedia.

Take Home Message• Technology and social media have brought

power back to the people.• As people of God make good use of these

gifts from Him to evangelize and bear witness to His Word to one and all.

Take Home Message

• Create network of people and not wires.• The digital highway is network street teeming with

people who are often hurting, looking for salvation or hope. By means of the internet, the Christian message can reach “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8).

• Keeping the doors of our churches open in the digital environment so that people, whatever their situation in life, can enter so that the Gospel can go out to reach everyone.

• We are called to be Church & the home for all.

Moving forward

• Start simple.• A journey of a thousand sites begins with a

single click !!• Today our Webmaster will show you how easy

it is to just click to learn digital technology!!!

Thank you