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SHCP SOCCOM
SUPPORT OUR PARISH WEBSITE 2
www.sacredheartcathedralkk.org
Dr. Damian Lee
19/09/2015
Overview
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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
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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.
The Great Communicator
• 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.
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)
ANPastoral 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