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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
