Catholic Internet Mission: A Program for Excellence

Vision: Catholic Internet Mission makes Christ as the standard of excellence in life through the medium of the Internet.
Mission: Catholic Internet Mission promotes Christ as the standard of excellence in life to all the Internet niches of cyberspace.
Goal(s): Catholic Internet Mission seeks to make Christ as the standard of excellence in life to all Internet users through the following:
(1) the 30-day Focus on the Holy Spirit;
(2) the 49-day Prayer Preparation for Pentecost Sunday;
(3) the 10-day Devotion to the Holy Spirit;
(4) interactive posting and messaging in lists and forums;
(5) producing websites with Catholic content;
(6) bonding together as webauthors in webrings and;
(7) writing meditative material in blogs and producing articles in webpages.

Catholic Internet Mission Program
It approximately takes more or less a year to learn and assimilate the theology and spirituality of Catholic Internet Mission. As regards the techniques and the methods - both spiritual and technological - it takes also more or less a year to study and learn the basics. Application of all the abovementioned elements involves a lifelong task and can be done at your own pace and customized according to your own concrete life-situation.

If you want to give true value, meaning and nobility to your use of the Internet, you can decide to discern if Catholic Internet Mission is part of God's calling for you in your Christian life.

Examine all the seven means stated above and see whether there is a possibility you can comply with what is required in them. If you can comply then you can become a Catholic webauthor according to the program of Catholic Internet Mission. Complying with the seven means will form the Catholic webauthor of Catholic Internet Mission to make Christ as his standard of excellence in the Christian life and it will also form him to be ready to receive the gift and the responsibility to promote Christ as the standard of excellence for others too.

Overview: To have an overview of what the Catholic Internet Mission program involves, you can check the following links:
(1) Catholic Internet Mission theology and the 36th World Communications Day Message;
(2) Catholic Internet Mission spirituality - found at New Millenium Pentecost and Theopneustos;
(3) Catholic Internet Mission methods - found at 9 Pentecost Central;
(4) Catholic Internet Mission prayer series:
- 30-day Focus on the Holy Spirit;
- 49-day Prayer Preparation for Pentecost;
- 10-day Devotion to the Holy Spirit;

Important point and reminder: Catholic Internet Mission and the calling to be a Catholic webauthor must never replace your active participation in the living, liturgical and sacramental life of the Church - especially in the Eucharist. In fact, this involvement must rank higher than Catholic Internet Mission. And for anyone seriously considering entering the Catholic Internet Mission program of becoming a Catholic webauthor, if he or she does not have any participation in a parish setting as one of the acolytes, readers, servers, or ministers, then I suggest that he or she have one form of liturgical ministry first before embarking on a formation program in Catholic Internet Mission. Catholic Internet Mission for Catholic webauthors is a specialized formation program that needs the standard and basic formation given by a parochial community setting.

Special Focus: One of the big tasks of Catholic Internet Mission in these times is to bring back all those in the information-rich societies to return to the living, liturgical and sacramental life of the Catholic Church and for them to have a heart for the information-poor societies. This situation calls Catholic Internet Mission to be a training ground for Catholic webauthors to follow Christ as the Good Shepherd and in imitation of Him, also shepherd others in the Internet back to their Eucharistic communities in the parishes.

More Information:
There are some articles which dwell on the topic of Catholic internet mission and Catholic webauthor excellence. You can read these articles and if something interests you, then you can try to learn more by searching in Google. Just type site://www.pcentral-online.net in the Google search box, click the mouse pointing to the search button and all the webpages related to Catholic Internet Mission will come up in the results.

The Articles
Catholic Webauthor Excellence - The Catholic Internet - Gives four guidelines in achieving excellence in Catholic webauthorship.
Renewing the Missionary Fervor - Mission: Internet - Renewing the missionary fervor is based on much prayer and focus on the Holy Spirit as He is present in the Eucharistic community.
Using Catholic Internet Mission: Using the WebNetwork - An article which gives 7 ways of using the Internet for one's spiritual growth and for contributing one's knowledge - both spiritual and technological - for the Catholic mission.
Christ, Catholic Internet Mission, Webauthor Excellence - An article that speaks of Christ as the standard for excellence for the Catholic Internet Mission and the Catholic webauthor.

Prayer and Hope
It is my prayer and hope that Catholic Internet Mission will produce Catholic webauthors who are experts in the celebration, adoration, and contemplation of the Eucharist (Message, 78th World Mission Sunday) for if they are indeed experts in this sense, then they have really made Christ as the standard of excellence in their life.

Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
Catholic Webauthor
October 24, 2004
78th World Mission Sunday