Is Your Phone an Enemy? (It's More Complicated Than That)

This season, Sr. Orianne Pietra René and Sr. Julie Benedicta share some of the interviews the sisters did with college students and campus ministers at the SEEK24 conference in St. Louis. In today’s episode, we talk about media usage: what it means to use it wisely, how it can draw us closer to God or pull us away, and why, as Daughters of St. Paul, we see media not as something to fear but as a tool for the Gospel.

Thanks for joining us, and thank you to all of the SEEK participants who joined us!

·     Genesis 1:27: on being created “in his image and likeness”

·     Our YouTube video, How to be Catholic Online – ways to engage (or not) with social media as someone who loves the Lord (with Sr. Bethany)

·     Our YouTube video, Why Nuns React on the value of storytelling as a way of encountering the Gospel and gospel-adjacent truths

·     If you liked these topics and you haven’t listened to our Faith Through Fiction episodes just prior to this season, we highly recommend them!

Check out Sr. Nancy Michael’s book on Media Fasting (Pauline Store | Amazon) and the accompanying video series on YouTube

Sr. Orianne and Sr. Allison Regina wrote a book about confession! Check it out here: Forgiven

Pauline Offertory

(For those who thirst for souls as Jesus does) by Bl. James Alberione

Father, in union with all the priests who today celebrate the Holy Mass, I offer you Jesus–Host and myself, a small victim:

·     in atonement for error and scandal spread throughout the world through the misuse of the media of social communication;

·     to implore your mercy for those persons who are deceived and seduced by the influence of these instruments and are led astray from your fatherly love;

·     for the conversion of those who in the use of these instruments reject the teaching of Christ and his Church, poisoning the minds, the hearts, and the undertakings of others;

·     that everyone may follow him alone whom you Father, in your boundless love, sent into the world, saying: “This is my beloved Son, listen to him”;

·     to recognize and to make known that only Jesus, the Word Incarnate, is the perfect Teacher, the secure Way, who leads to knowledge of you, Father, and to a sharing in your own life;

·     that in the Church there may be an increase in the number of priests, religious, and lay persons who, consecrated as apostles, using the means of social communication, will make the message of salvation resound throughout the world;

·     that writers, artists, media technicians and promoters, may be wise, animated by an evangelical spirit, and give witness to an authentic Christian life within the framework of social communication;

·     that Catholic initiatives in the sphere of social communication may continually increase, so that by promoting more effectively genuine human and Christian values, the voice of error and evil will be counteracted;

·     that all of us, aware of our ignorance and unworthiness, may recognize the need to draw near to the font of life in humility and trust, and nourish ourselves with your word, Father, and with the Body of Christ, invoking light, love, and mercy for all people.

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