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Honestly, I am already bored reading the documents given to us. As I read the document entitled, THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT: APOSTOLIC LETTEROF THE HOLY FATHERJOHN PAUL II TO THOSE RESPONSIBLEFOR COMMUNICATIONS, I considered it as a burden. Primarily, because it has the same message and content to that of the previous reflections, however I am reminded of what my rector told us before. He said, “When you read the Holy Scripture especially the Gospel again and again it is not a waste of time because it is inexhaustible. Moreover, repetitions always activate our awareness to certain realities. Reading repeatedly the Holy Scripture makes me always aware of its message and continuously offering me new insights. Perhaps, this is the same through with exhortations by the Holy Fathers. Hence, I decided to read the document again and true enough I found new insight, new point of reflection. It is too complex that it would be impossible to get nothing. But it is too complex that it would be impossible to get everything either. Nonetheless I focus on the Importance of listening and speaking through media. The document teaches us to Communicate with the Power of the Holy Spirit. To be overwhelmed by the Spirit when we are listening and speaking through media, we can be able to asses better the message being communicated to us and make a better judgment. In addition it makes us well disposed in discovering the truth and good in every communication made via media. When the perfect communicator, Jesus Christ, came into the world, He didn’t only teach. He also listened to the sighs of the oppressed, the problems of the poor and inundated and the maladies of all the suffering people. Alongside with it He did teach and preach. He pronounced powerfully the Kingdom of Heaven. He spoke about truth for He is the TRUTH. He spoke about the path towards the Kingdom for He is the WAY. He illumined the hearts and minds of the people for he is the Light.

          Now we are being challenged to imitate Him in our daily affairs with media. We are being encouraged to follow his example in listening emphatically and speaking prudently in media. Jesus has given us the warning:

“A good person brings forth good out of a store of goodness, but an evil person brings forth evil out of a store of evil. I tell you, on the Day of Judgment people will render an account for every careless word they speak. By your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” (Mt 12: 35-37)

St. Paul has given us the formula:

“Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of another… No foul language should come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for needed edification, that it may impart grace to those who hear” (Eph 4: 25, 29).

          The late Pope John Paul II tells us “Do not be Afraid. He is reminding us again not to be afraid with media because it is a “marvelous thing.” God is always with us all the days of our life. When we use media properly we can always recognize His presence. In turn, when we recognize His presence we can use media properly as well. But every time we use media listening to its cunning yet fallacious advice and using it to speak about things that ruined the soul, we cannot feel the presence of God, and vice versa. Not because He is abandoning us, but it is the other way around.

          Indeed, we can always get new things from a seemingly boring material for reading. Or should I say we can always extract good insights from an inexhaustible document of our Catholic faith.