Presentation on the Media Mindfulness Catechetical model of evangelizing catechesis.

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MEDIA MINDFULNESS
Catechesis of Young Adults for Catechetical Leaders
Sr. Nancy Usselmann, FSP | Master of Catechesis class

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Spirit of Wisdom, you breathe life into humanity to discover and create
technologies that promote global communication through the sharing of
information and entertainment. These gifts of God give expression to the
desires and yearnings of humanity through the art of popular culture.
Teach us to engage mindfully with the media, discovering the seeds of
grace present there, while seeking to understand the needs of humanity
today, always ready to propose Christ as the ful
fi
ller of all our hopes and
longings.
Assist us with your grace, O Divine Spirit! Help us to use these means to
discern the signs of the times, to search for a Christian response, to create
unity among us, and to derive motives for prayer.
We ask this through the perfect Communicator, Jesus our Master and
Lord. Amen.
PRAYER TO BE MEDIA MINDFUL
—from Live Christ! Give Christ! Prayers for the New Evangelization

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Goals:
1. Encounter Christ in a profound
and personal way
2. Grow in relationship with Christ
to be imago Christi
3. Proclaim and witness to
Christ’s life so others may come
to know and love him
EVANGELIZING CATECHESIS

4. DIGITAL MEDIA EXPERIENCE
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WHAT IS OUR EVERYDAY
LIVED EXPERIENCE?

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DIGITAL MEDIA CULTURE
67%
use social media
63%
access the internet
80%
use some form of media
media use according to the world population

6. MEDIA
ECOLOGY
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DIGITAL
STORYTELLING
“[The meeting ground is the] experience of
transcendence that wells up from the depths of
ourselves in interaction with the world.”
—Karl Rahner, SJ
transcendence—deepest human yearnings
Media Ecology— how media affect human
experience and modes of communication
popular media culture as the “context” for
evangelizing catechesis

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ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
ATTENTIVE LISTENING
INTUITIVE AND EMOTIONAL WAYS
OF LEARNING
STORYTELLING IS PARAMOUNT
DISCOURSE IS SPONTANEOUS,
INTERACTIVE, PARTICIPATORY
NETWORKED INDIVIDUALISM

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MEDIA
MINDFULNESS

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MEDIA MINDFULNESS CATECHESIS
KERYGMATIC
encounter Christ by bringing the
Scriptures into conversation with
the media text
01
LIFE EXPERIENCE
use theological-reflective
paradigm for media
engagement to connect to life
02
SACRAMENTAL WORLDVIEW
discover grace in the media
experience; sacramental lens to
engage the media culture
04
LITURGICAL
praying the media through forms
that lead to Church’s Liturgy
05
COMMUNAL
small groups online and offline to
“humanize digital environments”
(Towards Full Presence, no. 18)
03
EVANGELIZING
evangelization challenge to be an
“evangelizing presence on the
digital continent” (DC, no. 371)
06
Key characteristics of catechesis (DC, no. 55)

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Media is the environment for:
๏ Examining life experiences
๏ Questioning cultural ideas/
ideals
๏ Pondering ultimate questions
๏ Discovering grace, sometimes
through its opposite
๏ Dialoguing about faith values
๏ Encountering Christ!
Encounter
Christ
(kerygma)
Life
experience
(moral life)
Community /
Accompaniment
Sacramental
worldview
Prayer /
Liturgy
Evangeliza-
tion
Media
Mindfulness
Catechesis

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MEDIA
MINDFULNESS

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MINDFULNESS
CATECHESIS
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PROJECT RESPONSES
“I was expecting basic tips & strategies
for healthy consumption. I came away
with more profound understandings
and approaches.”
“I learned the tools of media
mindfulness to be more intentional and
prayerful in my engagement with
different forms of media.”
“More connection with others and intentionality. Going into this I was
curious how it’d be, I feel like these topics are getting covered more. But
this was truly such a unique take on all of it and so well explained.
Definitely made me think about things I haven’t. Even the video game one!
I thought because I don’t play often it wouldn’t be as relevant but it
absolutely was.”
“This series made me more aware how
to see God in [all] things.”
“Connection! A deepening of talking
intentionally about these things”
“I learned that not everything has to
mentioned God explicitly to be of God.”

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[Evangelize culture…]
“always taking the person
as one’s starting-point and
always coming back to the
relationships of people
among themselves and
with God.”
—St Pope Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, no. 20
Media Mindfulness Catechesis

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“We need a digital metanoia,
that is, an awareness of the
anthropological changes,
especially in the field of
communication, caused by
digital culture and an
awareness of that change in
our way of being and living
the faith.”
—Aline Amara da Silva, Catechesis in the Digital Age, 11.

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MEDIA
MINDFULNESS
CATECHESIS
An evangelizing catechesis using the popular
media culture as the “context” for encountering
Christ and learning the faith that leads to
missionary discipleship

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DISCUSSION
What makes Media Mindfulness model of
evangelizing catechesis important for a
lived faith?
How can this model be incorporated into
every aspect of faith formation?