Catholics Share Faith in All Electronic Media to Celebrate the Year of St. Mark

ST PAUL, Minn., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Faith doesn't stop when Catholics leave Mass every Sunday. They live it every day by participating in social justice work in their community, praying at home, and sharing their faith in small Christian communities.

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Always doing the work of Church and faith, the two Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Joan Mitchell and Therese Sherlock, who publish Sunday by Sunday, SPIRIT for Teens are social.

Every day at 10:15 Catholic homeschoolers and religious education workers tune into Twitter for #OurCatholicFaith—a daily series of teen-friendly Catholic doctrine and questions about faith. The SPIRIT4Teens.com blog addresses the big issues raised in each week's gospel and relates them to a teenager's daily life. The SPIRIT Xtra YouTube playlist features popular music videos that relate faith to real life.

Sister Joan also Tweets daily at noon excerpts from her Sunday by Sunday gospel reflection and blogs about faith and social justice at KeepingFaithToday.com. For the more visually faithful, Good Ground Press created a beautiful set of Pinterest boards that feature books by all the http://csjstpaul.org/ and their art embodied in religious greeting cards.

Pope Benedict XVI joined Twitter June 29, 2011 saying "Dear Friends, I just launched www.news.va. Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI." Sister Joan joins Pope Benedict XVI in Tweeting daily about Lent by suggesting simple activities to live faith during this holy season, "Today for #Lent: Visit a shut-in" and "Today for #Lent: Visit a church you pass regularly."

While Catholics are not avid readers of online religious materials per CARA, Good Ground Press hopes to catch the attention of people surfing on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest in hopes of sparking their interest in faith sharing.

An advocate of faith sharing in small groups, Sister Joan's new book, Mark's Gospel, the Whole Story is for individuals, bible study groups, and small Christian communities that want to use its simple tools, become active bible readers and explore the revealing patterns of the whole gospel. For Catholics and other faiths who follow the common lectionary cycle, the year 2012 is the year of Mark, Cycle B, in the Church's cycles of scripture readings. Mark's gospel is first to be written and the closest to oral traditions.

Good Ground Press publishes gospel-centered Catholic resources to draw people in to reflecting together, opening their faith lives to nourish one another, and sustaining one another in their commitments to the gospel work of mercy and justice.

Media Contact: Sara Kerr Good Ground Press, 8002325533, [email protected]

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