By Virtue of Baptism

“All the baptized, whatever their position in the Church or their level of instruction in the faith, are agents of evangelization, and it would be insufficient to envisage a plan of evangelization to be carried out by professionals while the rest of the faithful would simply be passive recipients” (EG, 120).

In response to the challenge of Pope Francis, our advocacy for social communications is to allow and give each one an opportunity to become not only recipients of the teachings of the Church in the form of receiving news articles and items but also contributors and patrollers as baptized. Thus, this threefold function of Jesus — worshipping, teaching and serving — fits well to DCHerald since each one can become a herald of the Good News as baptized.

As of today, part of the working staff and volunteer of the apostolate is to exercise worship and service, aside from teaching, as workers of evangelization in the media apostolate. Concretely, we offer regular masses and devotions such as Marian, sharing of the Word and individual prayer life for the enhancement of our spirituality.

We also do service by distributing assistance to the poor, holding medical missions, formation services, livelihood seminars and the like. All of these are done in order to make the apostolate unitive and integral. The apostolate are people and not only a physical office who practice true worship and service. All of these are done without competing or duplicating with but in collaboration with other apostolates.

Forming into one package or platform of media of communications (print, broadcast and on line), our soon to open Catholic radio station brings to people on air the life of worship, teaching and service. As we will hear soon to be broadcast entities of these threefold function, we also read them here in our paper. And this is the kind of life that sustains workers in the media apostolate: to worship, teach and serve.