Catholic Internet Leadership: Service Excellence Opportunity

At the Service of the Mission:
Catholic internet leadership is a service excellence opportunity that can be taken for the service of the mission.
The Catholic mission in the internet aims at creating an opportunity whereby people can come upon first contact with Christ and the Gospel and thereby stir the people's interest to know more about Catholicism. Those who take up the call of Catholic Internet Mission will feel the responsiblity of their Catholic internet leadership as a privilege and a gift that they can use so that more and more people may come upon contact with Christ and the Gospel. This is possible through all the material and content they produce over the Internet. As regards this material and content, it would be wonderful that they have a quality of excellence in them and can create quite a strong impact so as to capture the attention and hearts of the Internet users and keep them coming back for more and more information about the Catholic faith.

At the Service of Expertise:
Catholic internet leadership is a service excellence opportunity that can be taken for the service of developing expertise.
Expertise is what the Holy Father said the Catholic Church needs in the celebration, adoration, and contemplation of the Eucharist. Catholic Internet Mission will therefore support this desire of the Pope in order to bring excellence to the institution of the Eucharist. How must those who take up Catholic internet leadership develop their expertise and that of others also? The most practical way to do this is to actually practice and participate in the celebration, adoration, and contemplation of the Eucharist - and to do them in perfection and excellence. Through a constant and regular discipline, this can be achieved. Thus, Catholic Internet Mission echoes to all its members to give emphasis to the living, liturgical and sacramental celebration of the Eucharist. And Catholic leaders in the Internet need to provide all the spiritual insights, meditative content, and prayerful materials that will help Catholics celebrate the Eucharist very well and participate in the adoration and in the contemplation of the Eucharist very well.

At the Service of the World:
Catholic internet leadership is a service excellence opportunity that can be taken for the service of informing the world.
Not everyone who uses the Internet is Catholic. In fact, he may not be even Christian. This is why Catholic Internet Mission is responsible for producing a Catholic internet leadership that will bring Christ and the Gospel to all peoples in the Internet world. This is a very difficult service to the world because it is very certain that the Catholic internet leader will suffer rejection, derision, and outright attacks to his very own person. It will take more than just intelligence and one's store of information to be able to provide this service; it needs fortitude, courage and a certain attitude of martyrdom. But if Catholic internet leadership is founded on a solid faith in the Catholic faith system, the foundation upon which this faith is based, cannot be destroyed. Eventually, it will not only survive against attacks but even triumph and become victorious in its Catholic stand and in its promotion of Christ and His Gospel.

At the Service of the Eucharist:
Catholic internet leadership is a service excellence opportunity that must be taken for the service of shepherding people back to the celebration of the Eucharist.
Catholic Internet Mission joins the whole of the Catholic Church in the celebration of 78th World Mission Sunday by featuring the Eucharist and making its importance and significance more markedly felt at this time. Its Catholic internet leadership is responsible for those who come upon first contact with the website to shepherd them back to the living celebration of the Eucharist. We know that there are many churches in many parts of the world where the Eucharist is already poorly attended. It is important then at this time to let the people have a thirst again to celebrate the Eucharist. It is part of Catholic Internet Mission to take the lead in this and to shepherd the people back to their parishes where the sacramental graces of the Eucharist can be received.

Conclusion The Church has seen how great an opportunity it has in using the Internet for evangelization purposes. She has given the mandate to all who wish to make the face of Christ seen and the voice of Christ heard in the Internet. Those who have responded to this call will see this as a service excellence opportunity to exercise their Catholic internet leadership that the world may learn of Christ, His Gospel, the importance of the Eucharist, the call to expertise and excellence in Christian life, and the importance of renewing missionary fervor amongst everyone so that all in the world may learn of God's love and the salvation He wishes to give to all who will receive Him.

Dennis-Emmanuel Cabrera
October 19, 2004