New Website Goes Live: Our Church Door Online

You may have noticed if you have visited our website that we have undergone a major invigoration of the heart and soul of our communications. This clean layout, along with the dynamic content, filled with pictures and video, is the first step in our communications effort to provide the parish, the community around us, and the rest of the world, direct and engaging dialogue about our faith. From the Google Glass training material for our Altar Servers to live streaming of Masses for the home-bound, Saint John will be leading the way as the Pope has asked of us:

As I have frequently observed, if a choice has to be made between a bruised Church which goes out to the streets and a Church suffering from self-absorption, I certainly prefer the first. Those “streets” are the world where people live and where they can be reached, both effectively and affectively. The digital highway is one of them, a street teeming with people who are often hurting, men and women looking for salvation or hope. By pope-francis-using-an-ipadmeans of the internet, the Christian message can reach “to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). Keeping the doors of our churches open also means keeping them open in the digital environment so that people, whatever their situation in life, can enter, and so that the Gospel can go out to reach everyone. We are called to show that the Church is the home of all. – Pope Francis “Communication at the Service of an Authentic Culture of Encounter”

You will be seeing more dynamic and multimedia based content here on the website.  This content will be complementary to the bulletin, our email messages, and our social media.  The website will be the “base of operations” for our entire communications process.

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