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Catholic Internet Mission:
Catholic Articles |
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What's New?
Updates and News in the Pentecost Central WebNetwork |
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Lists
and Groups There are a total of 19 lists to subscribe to |
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WebRings
There are a total of 14 webrings to join in |
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Blogs
There are a total of 10 blogs to select and read |
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Site Building How to create and build a Catholic website in the Internet |
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Blog Writing How to write a Catholic blog in the Internet |
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List-Owning How to start a new Catholic list and forum in the Internet |
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Ring Mastering How to start a Catholic WebRing in the Internet |
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PneumaNetics The process of inculturating the Gospel and Catholic spirituality in the Internet |
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WebNetworking The process of initiating a webpresence in the Internet |
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Prayer and Prayer Requests The importance of prayer in our Christian life |
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Sharing and Witnessing Sharing with others how Jesus changed your life |
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Eucharist and Mission The "Need of Apostles Who Are 'Experts'" in the Eucharist |
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Enkindle in Them the Fire of Your Love
Reflections and Meditations on the Sunday readings |
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Vatican Messages
The Use of the Internet by Catholics |
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Catholic Webauthorship
On the personal call and vocation to Catholic Webauthorship |
| Catholic Webapostolates On the methods of doing Catholic Webapostolates |
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The WebAuthor
A backgrounder on the making of this website |
9 Pentecost Central:
Your Catholic Message Hub
MISSION:
To Do as Jesus Did and Continues to Do through His Spirit in the Church
GOAL:
To Guide Others Find
Ways of Being a Catholic Leader in the Internet
This is the 9 Pentecost Central website. It is created to start a process of centralizing all the work and ministry of a Catholic webauthor - a mission which was started since May 12, 2002, Ascension Sunday and the occasion for the 36th World Communications Day. The message of Pope John Paul II for that event deals on the subject of the Internet as the new forum for proclaiming the Gospel. It gives the missionary objective and mandate to "make the face of Christ seen" and "make the voice of Christ heard" through various forms of Catholic presence in the Internet. The Pope is calling the Catholic webauthor to create more blogs, more webrings, more lists, more forums, more webpages which will dwell on the subject of Christ and the Catholic Church's teachings - especially in relation to the Eucharist. This is an occasion for all to search for a process of making the Gospel more well-known and to make the Internet a place of sharing for Catholics and where total peace is promoted to all Christians and non-Christians that are part of the PCentral Online WebNetwork.
9 Pentecost Central echoes the call of the Catholic Church through the Holy Father to call Catholics all over the Internet world to "put out into the deep" - of cyberspace, the medium of the Internet / This call to go out into the deep means "duc in altum" (Luke 5:4), when Christ told the apostle-fishermen to go out into the deep and pay out their nets for a catch. And so they did and caught fish abundantly till their nets almost tore.
In the 36th World Communications Day message of Pope John Paul II, he says, "The Internet causes billions of images to appear on millions of computer monitors around the planet. He continues to ask us, 'from this galaxy of sight and sound will the face of Christ emerge and the voice of Christ be heard?'"
Paraphrasing his quote, he is asking those of us who are already literate in
the ways of the Internet, "will you help me and the
Catholic Church 'make the face of Christ seen' and 'make
the voice of Christ heard' on the Internet?"
"For it is only when His
face is seen and His voice heard that the world will know
the glad tidings of our redemption." John Paul II says that this
is the purpose of Catholic evangelization in the Internet. This is
what will make the Internet a genuinely human space for all - Catholic and non-Catholic. According to him, if there is no room for Jesus Christ, there is no room for people. Therefore, he summons the whole Catholic Church - especially those who are already literate in the Internet ways of communicating "to bravely cross this new threshold, to put out into the deep of the Internet,
so that now as in the past the great engagement of the Gospel and culture may show to the world 'the glory of God
on the face of Christ' (2 Cor 4:6)."
Then, he gives this blessing at the end of the message:
"May the Lord
bless all those who work for this aim."
From the Vatican, 24 January 2002,
the Feast of Saint Francis de Sales, John Paul II
The Pope also says that "there is no doubt that the electronic revolution holds out the promise of great positive breakthroughs for the developing world; but there is also the possibility that it will in fact aggravate existing inequalities. But the Catholic Church can be the prime mover in the Internet, through our work, to realize the objective and mission in favor of the globalization of human development and solidarity."
He further asks that "in these troubled times: how can we ensure that this wondrous instrument of the Internet that was first conceived in the context of military operations can now serve the cause of peace?"
"Can it favor that culture of dialogue, participation, solidarity and reconciliation without which peace cannot flourish? The Catholic Church believes it can; and to ensure that this is what will happen she is determined to enter this new forum, armed with the Gospel of Christ, the Prince of Peace."
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9 Signs of the Holy Spirit These signs are based on Scripture references 1 - God-directedness 2 - New Love 3 - Cross-asceticism 4 - Frugality 5 - Uncluttered Freedom 6 - Sound Doctrine 7 - At Odds with the Prevailing Spirit of the World 8 - Unity 9 - Obedience freely given |
WEBSITE Format:
Navigation,
Subject, Search, Links
To navigate throughout the 9 Pentecost Central website, all you need to use is the boxed-column on the left side of every webpage. The titles of each page are shown and they are the links themselves to the webpage. A brief description of the subject present under each title is given.
There is also a Google search box provided at the top of the "What's New?" page so you can search the website, google.com, or the world wide web. All links to a webpage within the website are colored purple. Visited links are in blue. There are also external links within the website. These are the lists, blogs, sites, and rings that have been formed into a PCentral Online WebNetwork. This webnetwork is vast and extends to many websites and webpages. So as to be able to get back, you can add and bookmark 9 Pentecost Central in your Favorites list and let it be the anchor for you for the whole of the WebNetwork. In case you may not find your way back to this anchor website, just click on your favorites list again to get back to 9 Pentecost Central. But you will surely harvest and "catch" a lot of spiritual, secular and even business information if you go through the webpages of the WebNetwork. You can also write down the URL! of 9 Pentecost Central http://www.pcentral-online.net/home.html
It is my sincere desire that we grow stronger in our Catholic faith and in our Christian life through the instrumentation of this 9 Pentecost Central and the spirit of Pentecost that guides the centralized webnetwork where it anchors itself. This is important especially in sharing and witnessing to others what Christ has done for us in this time through His Spirit, the Scriptures, the Catholic Church, the Eucharist, and the world in which our life is called to be a gift to Christ and to others. Let us always pray that the Holy Spirit, "in whom we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28), may guide us and teach us in how we are to witness to the world as Catholics in the beginning of this third millenium. I share with you this prayer:
O Spirit of God, we ask You to help orient all our actions by Your inspirations, carry them on by Your gracious assistance, that every prayer and work of ours may always begin from you and through you be happily achieved and ended. Amen.
Dennis-Emmanuel
Cabrera
Catholic WebAuthor
9 Pentecost Central
July 27, 2004
http://www.pcentral-online.net/home.html
