Can digital/virtual reality bring about a sacramental presence?
No? Then, what is effective in the online 'praise and worship,' ministries, and adorations?
If 'yes,' why not communion and confessions?
and if it is the faith that matters, then what is the significance of the sacraments in the natural signs, by prescribed ministers and places?
Added to that, 'adorations' and 'praise and worship' in 'our channel' is what is bringing the divine presence! If we are not careful, our fascination for those promoted 'our channel/ministries' gradually turn out to be digital addiction. Whether the content is 'spiritual' or not, the effect that the digital reality makes is the same.
We can raise our lives to God, but it is not fitting when some as if the same sacramental participation is made possible especially in adorations. We cannot pray or worship from a virtual self of ourselves and of God.
Faith does matter, and the divine presence can avail graces and blessings for the people in prayer. But this takes the form of a digital marketing when 'our channel' monopolise the blessings of God where 'our channel' is the focus, not God who is benevolent.
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Sacraments are those natural signs which makes a God-human encounter possible in our lives. They do share something of our own human realities. It must also be said that sacraments are only sacraments, signs that brings alive the reality, and it is not reality itself in its completeness.
No? Then, what is effective in the online 'praise and worship,' ministries, and adorations?
If 'yes,' why not communion and confessions?
and if it is the faith that matters, then what is the significance of the sacraments in the natural signs, by prescribed ministers and places?
Added to that, 'adorations' and 'praise and worship' in 'our channel' is what is bringing the divine presence! If we are not careful, our fascination for those promoted 'our channel/ministries' gradually turn out to be digital addiction. Whether the content is 'spiritual' or not, the effect that the digital reality makes is the same.
We can raise our lives to God, but it is not fitting when some as if the same sacramental participation is made possible especially in adorations. We cannot pray or worship from a virtual self of ourselves and of God.
Faith does matter, and the divine presence can avail graces and blessings for the people in prayer. But this takes the form of a digital marketing when 'our channel' monopolise the blessings of God where 'our channel' is the focus, not God who is benevolent.
................................
Sacraments are those natural signs which makes a God-human encounter possible in our lives. They do share something of our own human realities. It must also be said that sacraments are only sacraments, signs that brings alive the reality, and it is not reality itself in its completeness.
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