...62% of adult
US Catholics have a profile on Facebook
...58% of
Catholics age 30 and younger share content online at least once a week
...33% of
Catholics would like their pastors and bishops to keep blogs
These are
just a few results from a study conducted by the Center for Applied Research
in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, suggesting that the Church’s online
presence is critical if we are to fully engage the culture. Pope Benedict XVI
is taking a step in this direction with his plan to open a personal Twitter
account.
Of course,
engaging the online culture is one very small step in the New Evangelization,
and a seemingly shallow one at that. But in order to become more visible and
make connections with those who have fallen away, the Church must meet people where
they’re at.
Mary, Star
of the New Evangelization, Pray for Us!
In Eucharistic Adoration, a devotion Blessed John Paul II envisioned taking place in every parish, most chapels still use phone trees and very manual systems for communications. No wonder so many chapel leaders burn out and no wonder Adoration has been declining over the last few years.
ReplyDeleteWe are dedicated to supporting chapels with a powerful web based management system and it is free to all. Now if only the my beloved Knights of Columbus would CHAMPION Eucharistic Adoration there could be millions more adoring and John Paul vision could become true