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PPT-Catholic Cultural Center
PPT-Catholic Cultural Center
Members:
Bp. Jose S. Bantolo (Masbate)
Bp. Julito B. Cortes (Cebu)
Bp. Renato P. Mayugba (Pangasinan)
Bp. Marlo M. Peralta (Alaminos)
The phenomenon of
globalization calls
us to reflect on the
consequent
changes in the
various areas of
human relations
and lifestyles.
In Our World Now…
Satellite
determines signals of world
economy and finance.
Horizonsin which we live become wider
and wider.
Streams of news, information and knowledge
fill our minds with dramatic immediacy.
Development has displaced
cultural groups and
indigenous people ....
Television influences the language,
traditions, beliefs, knowledge and even
personalities.
New Pop Language
Indeed, globalization is a phenomenon that
makes us reflect on the extraordinary
complexity of human and institutional
relations, which have never been so intense
and widespread, so fast and fretful.
Though the advancement in technology
and widening of the frontiers of
knowledge may have brought us some
advantages but there are undeniably
disturbing facts that characterize the
present conditions:
What new cultures are evolving in
our present time?
I want it NOW !!!
The culture of
INSTANT GRATIFICATION
The provision of daily nourishment is
shifting from family kitchen to
supermarkets, prepared food industries
and fast food chains...
The FAST FOOD CULTURE
is also what we call...
Mc Dona-lization
or Jolibee-zation
The value of family meals where the
members share their day’s experiences
of joys and failures are slowly
disappearing…
Children’s media exposure to TV, video games,
and ‘adult’ themes is increasing, and it motivates
violent and sexually exploitative behavior...
Television in particular influences the
language, traditions, beliefs, knowledge,
identities and offer more problematic
solutions to life’s problems (TELESERYE)...
People and human relations become goods to be
used and consumed in the great supermarket of
the world, where there is neither place nor time
for authentic spirituality, for a dialogue with God
as well as with oneself.
Our world has become a
large, impersonal busy
institution. We are
alienated from each
other.
Although crowded, we
are lonely and distant.
The culture of
“CONSUMERISM”
Therefore…
A breakdown of society…
A breakdown of ecology…
A breakdown of the Absolute…
everything is now relative…
“The breakdown between the
Gospel and culture is without
doubt the drama of our
time.”-(Evangelii Nuntiandi # 20)
“The hopes and joys, griefs and anxieties of
people today…are the hopes and joys, griefs
and anxieties of the disciples of Christ and
there is nothing that is genuinely human
that has no echo in their hearts.” Gaudium et Spes # 1
The need to create CATHOLIC
CULTURAL CENTERS is being seen as a
concrete and viable move to provide the
people a stable foundation for a faithful
cultural reawakening…
As St. Paul
reminds us, “Do not
conform yourselves
to this age but be
transformed by the
renewal of your
mind, that you may
discern what is the
will of God, what is
good and pleasing
and perfect”
(Rom. 12:2)
A Cultural Reawakening and
Rootedness in the Gospel
Catholic University of
Sacred Heart
in Rome,
on May 3, 2012
“it is therefore important for culture to
rediscover the vigour of meaning and the
dynamism of transcendence. In a word, it
must open itself decisively to the horizon
of ‘quaerere Deum. “