In Case You Are Wondering...

How do the Daughters of St. Paul evangelize with the media of social communication?

     Knowing the power of media in the formation of a person, we publish religious books and produce audio-visual materials (CDs, Cassettes, VHS, VCDs) of various subjects: scriptural, inspirational, on formation of youths, parenting and family life, for prayer and devotions, homiletics for priests, stories of saints, church documents, stories and coloring books for children and so on. We also produce mini media such as inspirational bookmarks, verse cards and the like for students.

     We have media centers in main cities for the above publications and productions to be available to the people.

     For people who live far away from the vicinity of our media centers, we visit them and their families in their homes, bringing to them our publications as we do so. We also visit parish churches on Sundays, and on weekdays, offices.

     For people on the road, or too busy to read, we reach them through our radio programs. For the sick, the aged and the handicapped who cannot go to church on Sundays to worship, we help them feel closer to the Lord through cable TV Mass, although this never could replace the Holy Mass celebrated in the church.

     For the surfers on the Internet, we have a website: www.paulines.ph for them to visit, where we give a Gospel reflection for every Sunday, in addition to information about our publications and activities.

     Have you ever realized how important media have become in our life today? Daily, consciously or unconsciously, we absorb media messages from the news and songs we hear over the radio while traveling, from movies we watch in movie houses, or happen to watch while on the bus, the Ads we see on the billboards, besides the programs on television at home. Consciously or unconsciously, we are influenced by the values these media constantly propose to us. How do we really understand these media, their messages and their intention? How to evaluate them, for ourselves and for our family? Perhaps we have never really given it a thought, but media literacy is indeed very essential to our living today.

     Aware of this need for our society, we provide media literacy seminars and courses to schools and pastoral workers, to train them how to understand, evaluate and appreciate various forms of media: newspaper, magazine, radio, television, films, Internet, Ads, and ways to inculcate a media-spirituality in our life.

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