Thursday,
January 25, 2018
1st Reading: Acts 22:3-16 (or Acts 9:1-22)
Gospel: Mark 16:15-1
Jesus told his disciples, “Go out to the whole world and proclaim the Good News to all creation. The one who believes and is baptized will be saved; the one who refuses to believe will be condemned. Signs like these will accompany those who have believed: in my Name they will cast out demons and speak new languages; they will pick up snakes and, if they drink anything poisonous, they will be unharmed. They will lay their hands on the sick and they will be healed.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Wikipedia defines globalization as the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, and popular culture. The historical origin of globalization is still being debated. But Andre Gunder Frank, an economist associated with the independence theory, believes globalization already began with the rise of trade links between Sumer and the Indus Valley civilization in the Third Millennium B.C.
In a way globalization already started when God commanded man to “go and multiply”. Jesus pushed this task further when he told the disciples to spread out to the different parts of the world to baptize everyone. The vision was unity. Jesus said, “That they may be one just as you, Father, and I are one”.
Spiritual globalization can take advantage of the gains of technology. If Jesus were historically present today, he would surely employ the texting technology because it is the fastest, the most convenient, and the most available, even to the poor. Already in 2006 a Bishop from Australia floated the idea of rewriting the Bible in SMS language. Transcribing the Bible using SMS language will result to a thinner Bible. “It’s like getting back to the Hebrew style of writing that does away with vowels”, the Bishop said.
The cell phone is the most irresistible gadget today. When it beeps, our fingers itch to check out who is messaging us. Between texting and preaching, transmission of message is surer in the former. People could just sleep while the priest is preaching at the pulpit. There could be power outage while an evangelizer preaches on radio or television. But with text messaging, the message is sure to get through. While the Bible is rarely opened, the cell phone is never shut down.
Even from the perspective of business, Globalization is already a gargantuan task because it involves the whole world. Spiritual globalization is even more taxing because it involves both body and soul. But let us not be daunted by the magnitude of the task. The Holy Spirit is always there to animate our task. After all, the Holy Spirit is also interested in globalization. –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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