Signs of the Times: Bicolano Media Men on the Road to Conversion

More than 50 media professionals from radio, television and print in Camarines Sur, joined the 4-hour “Media Recollection” sponsored by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP/CAB) on Sunday, April 17, 2011, at Villa Caceres Hotel.

According to Fr. Louie Occiano of Caceres Commission on Communications, attendance increased substantially compared to last year’s recollection. He hopes that “more will participate next year.”

The communal discernment by the news heralds is done yearly, during Lent, before Holy Week.

Speakers, other than Fr. Louie who officiated the mass, were Fr. Rex Alarcon and Fr. Fidel Bagayaua. Noticeable were the handful who received Holy Communion, but the organizers are hopeful that next year, more will receive the sacrament.

To many media subscribers, not only the ordinary daily life of Filipinos today is undergoing crisis, but also the credibility of those in the world of social communication.