Earlier today, Monsignor Paul Tighe, the Secretary to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, talked about the Pope's 2012 message for World Communications Day (May 20, 2012).
To some the combination of silence and word as a path to sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ is a contradiction, mutually exclusive and not an adequate response to making the Name of the Lord known and loved. Not at all. God reveals Himself in words and deeds but He also speaks to us in silence. Indeed, in silence. Wonder and awe before the Divine Mystery is only lived in silence. The Church Fathers knew this; medieval saints and theologians knew this, and so does the contemporary Church. Father Jean-Pierre Ruiz of St John's University (Queens, NY) speaks to the perceived contradiction here.
"Silence and Word: Path of Evangelization" is the 46th message of the pope's speaking in favor of social communications. It is terrific, it is necessary, read it!!!!
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