#themeaningoflent

A lot of people complain that the Christianity isn’t “up with the times.” They say the church can’t relate to the 21^st century and that the bible is outdated. Well, try telling that to Pope Benedict XVI, who plans to tweet every day of the Lenten season to spread the message of Christianity.

 “Many of the key Gospel ideas are readily rendered in just 140 characters. The idea was very simply to try and use Twitter to share with people the essence of the Pope’s message for Lent, so over the 40 days of Lent to tweet every day one of the ideas of this message…. doing it in a way so that people can re-tweet and already people we know from our meeting with bloggers last year are already re-tweeting…” says Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications Paul Tighe says,

This is just another example of how Twitter is changing the social media environment. Be on the watch to see how the Twitter audience responds to the Lentel tweets.