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World Communications Day

We are happy that this day falls within the month of May, the month dedicated to #Communucation in TLF

Culled from- Catholicireland.net - www.cinews.ie and edited to suit our Foundation's aim and objectives.

What is World Communications Day?

Every year on the Sunday before Pentecost the Catholic Church celebrates the achievements of the communications media and focuses of how it can best use them to promote gospel values. 

World Communications Day was established by Pope Paul VI in 1967 as an annual celebration that encourages us to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that the modern means of social communication (the press, motions pictures, radio, television and the internet) afford the Church to communicate the gospel message.

The celebration came in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, which realised it must engage fully with the modern world. It says: “The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anguishes of the people of our time, especially of those who are poor or afflicted in any way, are the joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anguishes of the followers of Christ as well.”

In setting it up on Sunday 7th May 1967, less than two years after the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI, knowing that the Church is truly and intimately linked with mankind and its history, wanted to draw attention to the communications media and the enormous power they have for cultural transformation.

He and his successors have consistently recognised the positive opportunities the communications media afford for enriching human lives with the values of truth, beauty and goodness, but also the possibly negative effects of spreading less noble values and pressurising minds and consciences with a multiplicity of contradictory appeals.

The communications world: first Areopagus of the modern age
Pope John Paul II (1990) in his encyclical Redemptoris missio 37 said: “The world of communications is the first Areopagus of the modern age, unifying humanity and turning it into what is known as a ‘global village’. The communications media have acquired such importance as to be for many the chief means of information and education, of guidance and inspiration for many people in their personal, family and social behaviour. In particular, the younger generation is growing up in a world conditioned by the mass media.”

Increasingly aware of the world as a global village and the power of the media as a free market place for philosophies and values, the Church has sought to be in there with its message and to use the media to proclaim the values it sees are beneficial for human development and for the eternal welfare of people.

This year TLF will like to focus on children and the media.
We urge parents to form their children to be discerning in their use of the media. On our WhatsApp group we have shared videos and songs that reflect this intention of ours.

We also ask that those working in the media always promote human dignity and refrain from producing materials that lower moral standards, such as those which promote violence or the trivialisation of sexuality. We specifically call out against Big Brother in any country or continent.

Since 2005 TLF has provided an internet services then via emails, but now we have several internet platforms to engage with the world. These provide resources online for prayer, awareness, puzzles, Bible verses in line with our theme for the month, reflection and action with sections that include spirituality, faith and messages from Our Daily Bread.

It is our hope in TLF to continue to reach the world and find new ways to reach the younger audience that may tend to follow the way of the world and follow gossip blogs, violent news feeds, immoral entertainers, lovers of money, lust and self longer, pornography,  hate crime sites, profanity, devil worship, diabolic ruse, among other harmful content in the media. By extending our services through our YouTube channel that has been dormant and creating an official TLF website, we wish to have video clips of “good news” stories and initiatives, and testimonies from faithfuls. 

Special thanks to the Catholic Church and the entire Christian community. 

TLF

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A Prayer for Communications Sunday 

O God, whose word is truth
and in whose light we see light,
guide those who tell the story of our times through word and image.
Make them seekers after truth and advocates of human dignity.
Grant discernment to all who rely on their labours, 
and, as we confront the pain and promise of this world, 
awaken in us a sense of wonder at your presence
and of longing for your peace., in Jesus name,
Amen.

TLF

#May #Communucation #WalkWithUs

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