CNA<\/a>).- The evangelization office of the English and Welsh bishops' conference has launched a program of daily tweets to teach the faith to Catholics throughout the countries.<\/p>\n\t\u201cThis is within the spirit of the new evangelization, using new means and methods of communication to share the Gospel,\u201d Clare Ward, home mission adviser for the bishop's conference, told CNA Nov. 28.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe great benefit of something like Twitter, is that it offers bite-sized pieces of information that are immediately digestible, immediately accessible, and don't pose too many demands upon people during a very busy day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe service, @YoFtweets, leads its followers through the documents of the Second Vatican Council, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and books of Scripture.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe think it's the first time that Twitter is being used with a specific catechetical theme in mind; it's not just random tweets, there's a catechetical scheme behind each tweet that's provided every day,\u201d Ward said.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThey are being offered as a resource to the Christian community\u2026to help them do precisely what the Holy Father has asked for, which is to re- read the documents of Vatican II, to re-read the Catechism and to study it, to know the scriptures and to generally know the faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tWard said that to cover each day of the Year of Faith, more than 400 tweets had to be prepared by the Home Mission Desk, \u201cwhich as one can imagine was a ginormous task.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cEven though they're just bite-sized extracts, trying to put together material\u2026that has some sense of coherency was an enormous challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tBishop Kieran T. Conry of the Arundel and Brighton diocese, and who is chair of the English bishops' department for evangelization and catechesis, stated Nov. 27 the department hopes \u201cthat by reading the material on Twitter people might be inspired to read more of the documents, the Bible and the Catechism. The Twitter initiative is, we hope, a helpful starting point for people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tWard added, \u201cIt's important to see the Twitter initiative as part of a bigger picture which stems from, going right back to the visit of the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux to England and Wales that few would have predicted, in 2009.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThen again, the great joy of welcoming the Pope in 2010 and then all the legacy initiatives that come from that, and now the Year of Faith. Its really a good time, we've had so many positive national events that have gone on, its created a sense of buoyancy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe Pope's 2010 visit to England is what has \u201cset the tone for the Catholic Church\u201d in the country in recent years, Ward said.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe bishops have done a huge amount of work since then to support the legacy of that visit, through a vast array of new initiatives and rejuvenating existing initiatives, so the feel here at the Conference is one of great enthusiasm and buoyancy at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tShe said the Twitter enterprise should be seen in context with other initiatives, including those reaching out to lapsed Catholics and to non-Catholics.<\/p>\n
\tBishop Conry's evangelization department, she added, will have a \u201cCome Home for Christmas\u201d campaign this winter, similar to the American \u201cCatholics Come Home.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tAnd on the eve of the Year of Faith, Ward reported, the Faith Department printed some 1 million \u201cfaith cards\u201d and distributed them across the dioceses of England and Wales.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThey are to support to Catholic identity, to give people something to carry to give them Catholic confidence, and secondly to be used as a tool of evangelization, to have that in your wallet,\u201d so that others can see that your Catholic faith is just as important to you as the photos of family kept also in your wallet.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIt would be used to give to someone who expresses interest in the Catholic faith.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe Twitter initiative is of particular importance, Ward suggested, because it shows that the Church is \u201cconnected with contemporary culture and is embracing new means and methods to communicated and to dialogue with people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe hope that, especially for very busy people, it will provide an easily accessible daily encouragement to grow in faith and to share it. Please do 'follow' and share it with your friends,\u201d Bishop Conry requested.<\/p>\n
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