Where Two or Three are Texting: Incarnation & Sacrament in a Virtual World

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The young people in our schools and parishes are increasingly citizens of a virtual world where they carry out many traditionally “physical” activities, including living out their faith! Other Christian communities are experimenting with “online church.” What is an "online church" and is it an option for Catholics? How does the "digital continent" influence the way we prepare young people and catechumens to receive the sacraments? This webinar will explore these questions and offer some avenues for appropriate use of digital technologies in living our faith.

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Jonathan F. Sull ivanDirector of Catechetical ServicesDiocese of Springfi eld in I l l inois

WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE TEXTING: INCARNATION &

SACRAMENT IN AVIRTUAL WORLD

#VirtualFaith

TWEET ALONG WITH THE HASHTAG

Col lect, The Nativity of the Lord (At the Mass during the Day)

OPENING PRAYER

Farming Digital DirtOnline Faith

Practices: What’s Going On?

Challenges to Catholic Practice

Bridging “Physical Faith” and “Virtual Faith”

Q&A

OUTLINE

FARMING DIGITAL DIRT

Simulating Real LifeVirtual farmingVirtual prayer?

Community and Communion Online

FARMING DIGITAL DIRT

ONLINE FAITH PRACTICES:

WHAT’S GOING ON?

Faith Resources Online

Online Faith Communities

Prayer in Cyberspace

Broadcast of “Live” Services

“Digital Church”

ONLINE FAITH PRACTICES

CONTINUUM OF PARTICIPATION

LurkingPartic

ipatio

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CHALLENGES TO CATHOLIC PRACTICE

Enlightenment vs. Catechism

CHALLENGES TO CATHOLIC PRACTICE

I think,therefore I am.

The human body shares in the dignity of “the image of God”: it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul…The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the “form” of the body: i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures unified, but rather their union forms a single nature.

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, NO. 364-365

Enlightenment vs. Catechism

Temporary, Mutable Avatars

What is “Participation?”

“Virtual” Sacraments?

CHALLENGES TO CATHOLIC PRACTICE

BRIDGING“PHYSICAL” FAITH &

“VIRTUAL” FAITH

Cultivate Online Communities

Invite Digital Faithful to Participate in Person

Stress Importance of Physical Symbols

BRIDGING “PHYSICAL” FAITH & “DIGITAL” FAITH

Q&A