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Creating Milestones Towards the
Fulfillment of the Catholic Vision
Webster's New World Dictionary defines the term milestone as:
1. a stone set up to show the distance in miles to or from a place
2. a significant event
The Catholic vision has basically remained the same at its roots. We can
see this when we look deep into the truth found in the verse, "Jesus is
the same yesterday, today and forever". In fact this was one of the themes
that were touched upon when we celebrated the Jubilee year in the year
2000.
For the purposes of this post, we shall take the second definition of
milestone - that of a significant event. We will further adapt the definition
more for our Catholic webauthor purposes by broadening the term 'event'
to include what we author and write on the Internet. Thus, with this
definition, then we can say that one of the goals of a Catholic webauthor
is to create 'milestones' of Catholic articles that will lead to the
fullness of understanding, learning, integrating, and living out the
Catholic vision in our Christian lives and also to influence others to
do the same through the Catholic articles we produce.
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Milestones are rare and special
but they happen and can be created
We can see it indeed as God's gift and grace when we are able to create
a milestone in our Internet work. It takes a lot of time and dedication
and indeed a lot of hard and honest work. But if we strive towards
imbibing within us a spirit of progress and continuous improvement and
development, then we shall indeed create the milestones the Lord wills
for us and help us to do so. These milestones need not be too very
extraordinary. They could be simple articles that we have written that
have greatly and significantly and positively motivated others to work
along the line of Pope John Paul II's 36th World Communications Day
Message of May 12, 2002. If ever we are able to create or eventually
discover that we have come produced an article that served as a 'milestone'
in our work, then we must give thanks to the Lord for this and eventually
ask Him that He may continue to breathe into us His Holy Spirit that we
may continue on in this mission and never, never give up. What we are
doing is part of the universal Catholic mission - to provide information
that will aid the Internet user to have a 'contemplative eye' on the world -
seeing the world with wisdom, understanding and depth of insight. We
can go counterculture to the Internet culture of too much speed and
efficiency, and the fleeting and transitoriness of the reality some
sectors of it present through the transmittal only of data. If we
present Christ and the gospel as an alternative to the values being
proferred by many in the Internet who go counter to what Christ and
the Catholic church teaches, then we have done our part in the mission
of the universal Church.
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Striving for excellence and perfection in our
work
shall lead to the milestones God shall help us produce
The ideals of excellence and perfection are good but they must be seen
within the context of a process - a constant and dynamic movement
towards a vision. In our case, our response to the call to produce
excellent articles will eventually lead us to create the the Catholic
articles that will act as milestones towards the greater understanding
and fulfillment of the Catholic vision. A milestone is a tangible
evidence of the spirit of excellence and perfection we have put into
our work. But we must not fix or focus our attention on a milestone
when the Lord helps us to produce one. Rather, when we do produce
one, let us be indifferent towards it and move on for we know that we
are still far from the fulfillment of the Catholic vision. The journey must
continue. What is important is that we have decided to enter into the
process. As with those who have gone before us, like the Holy Father
John Paul II, we know that he entered the process and served the Lord
with all his mind, with all his heart, with all his soul and with all
his strength. We too, must follow John Paul II's teaching on the use
of the Internet for evangelization and give ourselves completely with
all our mind, with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our
strength. This is one way that we serve and do love the Lord and
His Church.
Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
April 12, 2005
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