CLARETIAN PUBLISHERS’ TRIENNIAL ENCOUNTER BENGALURU, INDIA 2018 - DAY 7

FEBRUARY 10-17

(Day 6 – Visits to some charity homes in Bengaluru and later to Brilliant Press)

Day 7

16.02.2018

Fr. Ravi Kanthan from Sri Lanka led the Morning Prayer.

I Session

Fr. Henry opened the first session with a prayer reading from Lk 14:26-33.

The proposal for the day is to make concrete suggestions and resolutions for future. Fr. Henry welcomed Fr. Dominic Rohan the resource person for the morning. Via Skype from the US, he spoke about The Claretian Editors collaborating with UN in the transformation of the world.

He began with some historical notes on the UN that works for Peace and security, development and human rights. The economic social council partners with NGOs. The department of public information of UN accepted CMF Team where we share information to the world viz:

We try to influence the policymaking and declarations of UN.
We bring concerns of the people where we serve, and become their voice at the UN.
Raise awareness among the members of the Congregation on initiatives of UN.
To bring initiatives and project of UN to the grass root missionary efforts of the Claretians.

Objectives

Migration
Environment
Indigenous people
Peace and reconciliation
Sustainable development Goals (17 goals)

SDGs came up as the continuation of 2000-2015 – 8 millennium development goals.

Claretian Engagement

Our various ministries to make present God’s Kingdom find resonance in SDGs – Sustainable Development Goals – like ending poverty, hunger, ensure health, education, gender equality, sanitation and water, energy, employment, infrastructure, reduce inequality, inclusive cities, sustainable production, climate change, conserve ocean marine resources, protect eco system, justice for all, global partnership for development.

Role of Claretian Editors

Publish book connected with SDGs

E.g. Holy Father at UN regarding migrants: Welcome, protect, promote, and integrate.

Invite experts – on themes – who can write and speak
Connect SDG to ministry (join hands with rest of the world to transform)
Claretian in the communication ministry can be agents of change (add SDGs in mission/vision goals)
Look for areas of impact (not only beneficial)
Integrate SDGs into our work areas, offices etc.
Possible topics to concentrate and contribute: No one left behind, social protection, trafficking, Taxation, Homelessness, Global citizenship, Xenophobia/Islamophobia, Gender Equality.

Session II

Group discussion on the points for making resolutions

Session III

We came together for the reporting session and discussion on the resolutions to be made in the meeting.

Points for Making Resolutions

Focus on three Levels of Resolutions:

Conclusive Affirmation and Direction:
Collaborative Activities:
Sustainability/Stability Efforts:
To reinforce this means of evangelization for a better response to needs of our time from the analysis of the current state of the world. Identify strong/weak area and respond appropriately.
Claret Publishing Group of (CPG) identifies Bible Diary/Daily Gospel as its signature product.
We have identified Bible Ministry also as our core area of expertise.
We identified the growing digitalization of communication modes.
Though we have announced our presence in the Digital continent in individual Publishing Houses, a concentrated effect is yet to take place.

Signature Product of CPG is Bible Diary and Daily Gospel
Bible Ministry as our Core area of Expertise
Growing digitalization of communication modes in the world
Establishing Claretian Media Family to address this point having experts both in technology and contents.
To move concretely from publishing ministry to Bible ministry to envisage availability of our personnel and resources to Bible ministries like courses, classes, modules videos, arts, graphics, etc., to reach people at different levels.
Rural parish libraries (as in Ranchi, China)
How to get access to those are not part of 8th continent

Teamwork with the Claretian UN office to promote their agenda of JPIC and Sustainable Development Goals. This is a new area the Publishing ministry will focus in the future.

Biblical diary with a UN SDG theme explained in four pages, Video with QR code for all the one million plus copies irrespective of languages and be placed at UN. Take material from Rohan through Henry. Decide themes for next five years
Team work with the UN ministry

To reinforce working in collaboration among all publishers under the umbrella of Claret Publishing Group and to remedy apostolic individualism to foster teamwork.

The group identifies the following possible areas of collaboration.

Establish a Claret Media Family (CMF) as an umbrella organization to monitor and share the digital content of different publishing houses.

One good technician
Payment
U coordinator (or small team to implement)
Provide for archiving in CMF if not physically, digitally and the right to use/share the commentaries.
Create an Ad hoc Committee to effect the plan – to have a Claret Social Media Family that would plan how to have the common project for the existing social media ministries.
Prepare plan to effect plans and projects and look for an IT Expert as consultant

Archiving
Collecting available data for digitalization

Looking for materials that we do not have
Common Website as the platform to start this
Indian Bible Foundation consolidation in ASCLA East
Friendly Visits to assist the new or those beginning publication
Coordination with UN Ministry
To include the CPG logo for all print works
Materials that can be shared in common portal: artworks

Bring Indian Bible Foundation as a common venture of all Publishing houses of India.

Connected with CMF, make it a body with one in charge to coordinate bible ministries of all the provinces, bible publishing and distributions
Terms for Jurisdiction and distribution!
Use the CPG logo
Update the list of publishing houses with all the details

Establish a Common Minimum Program (CMP) for projects.
To establish the publishing ministry economically sustainable by introducing better management
Establish an economic supervision body of the Publishing houses in (consultation with respective Provincial/Delegation Team) to audit the publishing houses in situ.
Encourage all the publishing houses to reinvent themselves to be economically viable, which involves movement of staff and personnel, digitization and upgrading software and content of the publications.

Conduct genuine inquiry into the actual situation of the publishing house and take appropriate and concrete steps
Budget for biblical formation
Counter tendency of the director become the sole manager, make it body for better management
Comply with our Publishing Directory

To reflect together creatively and to inspire to update media, putting technical advancement and social media revolution in perspective.
CMF will update our ministry to digital era and support individual organisms to upgrade to Digital.
The individual publishing houses will pledge the items that they will share on the common digital portals.
An ad hoc committee to take care of this aspect

Encourage writing, publishing based on SDGs going mainly digital
Concretization of Common Project of our varied media ministries (print, radio, TV)
Re-enforcing every organisms social media ministries

Session IV

The group took up the resolutions for discussion and approval

Some more questions came up for discussions.

Sharing of reflections on connecting the Bible diaries together.

We resolve to do so and encourage this as sign of our collaboration.
Copying is possible but it has to be ethical, acknowledging the author and source.
In the context of competition, place video with QR code or a link to reinvent Bible Diaries.
Even little creativity brought about in the Diary makes big difference in the marketing.

2. Establish Media group – engaging people currently outside the publishing group.

We need to identify places and people and talk to the people concerned to take the necessary course of action.

3. How to use Bible ministry in the field? How do we define Bible Ministry? Is it only publication?

They are complimentary. One platform with two sides. Needs to resolve –

Without disputes. Given the present leadership it is hoped to sail through smoothly.

The US will be added in the CPG: It will be done and it is important to be part of the whole. It is needful to update the members of CPG including US publishing House.
Compliance to Directory No. 20.3
Helping new publications: It is important. New publishing houses will make some sharing on their plans, projects and needs tomorrow morning
Friendly visits will take place along with canonical visit together with Fr. Rossa. To know the situation, if any help is needed from General Govt.

Fr. Henry spoke about the business to be done tomorrow 17/02/2018: