【慈幼通訊社 ─ 2017 年 10月 31 日巴西巴西利亞訊】 ─ 現今世界資訊發達，新世代在數碼環境中出生和成長。人們極需以通訊活動教育，並教導他們如何面對資訊。在學校環境中，這一切變得切實可行，然而在堂區層面，教育傳播可行嗎？
母佑會Márcia Koffermann修女
教會探討傳播工作，不僅可行，而且十分迫切，因為福傳根本就是傳播。傳福音是每位基督徒的責任。基督宗教的根源，就是要向萬民傳播福音。聖若望保祿二世《救主的使命》通諭說：「現代的第一個阿勒約帕哥是傳播界……所以僅僅使用媒體來傳播基督徒訊息和教會的真實教導不夠的。也需要把此訊息整合於現代傳播的新文化中。」
傳播：青年的文化
我們是可以看到，傳播文化如何成為直達青年的重心，看看他們的生活，如何度過他們的時光，便能看清世界。可以想想，在教會環境中進行傳播，是接觸青年文化的最佳方法，並使福音成為對他們有意義的東西。
教育傳播的宏觀目標，是要創造傳播生態──就是從家庭氣氛中，形成教育及福傳環境，讓人們感受到團體意識。這樣，每個堂區，每個教會團體，都可以成為一個生態系統，讓每個人、每項活動、每句話語、每個抉擇，都成為基本的要素，決定我們要傳播什麼。
福傳就是傳播
我們值得反省一下，堂區如何能夠容納這些新青年文化。青年希望成為演出者、主角、主事人，即使他們有時感到難以融入機構的運作中。如果福傳就是傳播，有誰比青年本身，更明白傳播為何物呢？
長期使用數碼科技，改變了青年解讀世界的模式。在媒體世界裡，文字往往使人煩厭，圖像比得上千言萬語。這是第一重挑戰。基督宗教建基於聖言；因此，如何教導青年聆聽聖言，包括天主聖言，以及在他們生活中的天主標記呢？還有，如何運用天主教會特有的整套圖像文化呢？
Is Educomunication possible in parishes?
(ANS – Brazil –Brasilia, 31 October 2017) – The current world is marked by communication and new generations are born and developed in digital environments. It is necessary to educate oneself in communications and towards communication. In a school environment, all this becomes possible and feasible, but in a parish context, is it possible to talk about Educommunication?
by Sr. Márcia Koffermann, FMA
Not only is it possible, but it is urgent for the Church to look at communication, because ultimately evangelizing is communicating. And communicating the Gospel is the responsibility of every Christian. The missionary mandate to go evangelize all peoples is at the root and origin of Christianity. According to the encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Redemptoris Missio: “The first areopagus of modern times is the world of communications (…). It is not enough, therefore, to use the media to spread the Christian message and the Magisterium of the Church, but it is necessary to integrate the message itself into this new culture.”
Communicating: the culture of young people
It is possible to see how the culture of communication is at the direct center of young people by the forms wherein they live, relate, organize their time, see the world. Thinking about educommunication in the ecclesial environment is the best way to approach youth cultures and make the Gospel meaningful for young people.
The broad objective of educommunication is to create communicative ecosystems – that is, educational and evangelizing environments, from the climate of family, that allow one to experience the sense of community. In this way, every parish, every ecclesial community can be considered an ecosystem where every person, every activity accomplished, every word said, and every choice is an essential element that defines what we want to communicate.
Evangelizing is communicating
It is worth reflecting on how our parishes are able to accommodate these new youth cultures. Young people want to be actors, protagonists, subjects of process, even if they often find it difficult to fit into institutionalized models. If evangelizing is to communicate, who better understands communication than the young people themselves?
The constant use of digital technologies changes the way young people read the world. Words often seem unpleasant; in a mediatic world, an image is worth a thousand words. Here, a first challenge. Christianity is a religion founded on the Word; how, therefore, to educate young people to listen to the Word, both the Word of God and the signs of God in one’s own life? And again: how to exploit the whole culture of images that is characteristic of Catholicism?