Vi.Deo – Vibrant Verisimillitudes, Visuals & Virtuals On God – Videos For God
I, blogger of 22 years, realize
only today, Sunday, 04 Sept 2022, we Roman Catholics have ignored the power
of the virtual presentation (Vi.P) to expound and
explain the gospel. Vi.P – the New World explaining the Old World. Expecially because
the Bible is extra difficult to understand. Vi.P also signifies virtual pencils
for portraits.
(“Pencils” image from Jen H, The Daily
Post, wordpress.com)
The top image is from The Feast Facebook webpage, the guest priest
at the PICC presenting the gospel, Luke 14:25-33:
Great crowds
accompanied him on his way and he turned and spoke to them. “Anyone who comes
to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and
his own life too, cannot be my disciple. No one who does not carry his cross
and come after me can be my disciple.
“And indeed, which of
you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the
cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the
foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, anyone who saw it
would start making fun of him and saying, "Here is someone who started to
build and was unable to finish."
Or again, what king
marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider
whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who was advancing
against him with twenty thousand? If not, then while the other king was still a
long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace.
So in the same way,
none of you can be my disciple without giving up all that he owns.
Jesus
Christ! That is an extremely difficult gospel to explain! (Also, the gospels
are boring to death just being read.) Nothing beats a dramatization, via a
modern-day Vi.P. Then we could all learn from those virtual classes, wherever,
whenever, why not!
“Why is it so hard to understand the Bible?” asks Got Questions, and gives the reason that
we “read our preconceived biases into the Bible” (gotquestions.org).
We do, but really, the language of the Bible is of bygone eras and the best translations
still need translating to modern lives.
Yes, I see that we Roman Catholics living in the modern
world, how come we have not thought of harnessing the awesome powers of the digital
world in the service of the Church and the laity in presenting – and therefore
understanding – the gospel?!
More
pertinently, I ask: Why is it that we Catholics have ignored the immense power
of the digital universe in proselytizing our own? What I’m saying is that we techno-savvy
people are still techno-backwards in applying what we know!@517
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