Vi.Deo – Vibrant Verisimillitudes, Visuals & Virtuals On God – Videos For God

Vi.Deo – No, not Virtual God but Vibrant God, if not Visible God. God does not need any glorification from us mortals; He is glorious by Himself – but He needs to be portrayed as to be vibrant, if not visible to us, Roman Catholics, at least every Sunday at mass, via the gospel!

I, blogger of 22 years, realize only today, Sunday, 04 Sept 2022, we Roman Catholics have ignored the powerof the virtual presentation (Vi.P) to expound and explain the gospel. Vi.P – the New World explaining the Old World. Expecially because the Bible is extra difficult to understand. Vi.P also signifies virtual pencils for portraits.
(“Pencils” image from Jen H, The Daily Post, wordpress.com)

The top image is from The Feast Facebook webpage, the guest priest at the PICC presenting the gospel, Luke 14:25-33:

Great crowds accompanied him on his way and he turned and spoke to them. “Anyone who comes to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple. No one who does not carry his cross and come after me can be my disciple.

“And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the foundation and then found himself unable to finish the work, anyone who saw it would start making fun of him and saying, "Here is someone who started to build and was unable to finish."

Or again, what king marching to war against another king would not first sit down and consider whether with ten thousand men he could stand up to the other who was advancing against him with twenty thousand? If not, then while the other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace.

So in the same way, none of you can be my disciple without giving up all that he owns.

Jesus Christ! That is an extremely difficult gospel to explain! (Also, the gospels are boring to death just being read.) Nothing beats a dramatization, via a modern-day Vi.P. Then we could all learn from those virtual classes, wherever, whenever, why not!

“Why is it so hard to understand the Bible?” asks Got Questions, and gives the reason that we “read our preconceived biases into the Bible” (gotquestions.org). We do, but really, the language of the Bible is of bygone eras and the best translations still need translating to modern lives.

Yes, I see that we Roman Catholics living in the modern world, how come we have not thought of harnessing the awesome powers of the digital world in the service of the Church and the laity in presenting – and therefore understanding – the gospel?!

More pertinently, I ask: Why is it that we Catholics have ignored the immense power of the digital universe in proselytizing our own? What I’m saying is that we techno-savvy people are still techno-backwards in applying what we know!@517