FR. STEPHEN A. CUYOS, MSC
Fr. Stephen Cuyos is an MSC (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart) priest, who blogs about his faith and ministry, about the use of new technologies and social media for evangelization, as well as his advocacy for Linux and Free/Open Source Software. He finished a master’s degree in Social Communications at the Università Pontificia Salesiana in Rome, Italy.
Fr. Stephen is available for talks, seminars, recollections, retreats and workshops. Click here for more info.
PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG
The Church needs to find ways to creatively evangelize people in ways that are meaningful for them. The purpose of this blog is to explore how new technologies, Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and the social media can be optimized for evangelization.
TOPICS
I consider blogging as one of today’s most effective tools in sharing personal reflections and in proclaiming God’s liberating message of joy, peace and love online. I blog about anything that interests me, but concentrating largely on life, faith, Linux, FOSS, and social media.
FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
This blog also looks into how the Church can benefit from Linux and Free/Open Source Software. The Eleutheros Manifesto expresses clearly my convictions on this matter – “We are convinced that there are strong ideal affinities between Christianity, the philosophy of Free Software and the adoption of Open Formats and Protocols. We believe it is evident that the usage of such instruments is much more in line with Catholic Doctrine than fully closed, non Free solutions.”
MISSIONARIES OF THE SACRED HEART
The initials M.S.C. come from the Latin: Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart). The MSC is an international community of religious men of the Catholic Church who work to deepen the appreciation of God’s love. Some minister in parishes, schools, hospitals, prisons, indigenous communities, and in special apostolic activities that lead people to healing and liberation. Others proclaim the compassion of God as revealed in the Heart of Christ by going to missions overseas. MSC are active in over 50 countries, most of them in the Third World. I became a perpetually professed MSC in June 1997 and was ordained priest in November 1998.
BEGINNINGS
I began blogging in late January 2005. However you will see here posts dating back to 2001. Those entries came from my previous webpage hosted by Geocities. Twas the time when an online journal was not yet called blogging.
I began podcasting on 26 April 2005. I think I am historically the first ever Filipino priest podcaster.
VIDEOS I’VE DIRECTED/EDITED
2011 – PeaceBook
2010 – Peace Trip
2009 – Peace Camp
2009 – Diocese of San Jose
2008 – God’s Heart on Earth
2006 – Dear Peace (Winner of the SIGNIS-WACC Human Rights Award 2009)
2004 – In Other People’s Homes: The Life of Filipino Migrant Workers in Italy
WEBSITES I’VE CONSTRUCTED
1. www.cfamedia.org (Winner of the Catholic Mass Media Awards for Best Website: 2007, 2008 and 2009)
2. www.misacor.net
3. www.misacor.org
4. www.osb-tutzing.ph
5. www.stephencuyos.com
gud day, padz… i was one of the participants of your short seminar on photography during the AYD preps and just thought of dropping by your website…
the Church is so blessed to have people like you work for the propagation of the Faith in the context of the media… Godspeed! ^_^
Dear Brother/Sister,
Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ.
I am Somie, from Pakistan. Urdu and Punjabi are the biggest languages of this country. I visited your website and impressed by your work. I have one suggestion regarding booklets, sermon, tracks, and Bible studies and recording, it would be good, if these will be available in our native languages in Urdu and Punjabi. Reaching out to the people in their own languages is very helpful, affective and fruitful. If your ministry is interested and keen to reach the unreached and untold in Pakistan with the materials in native languages, I can arrange to translate for messages, bible studies, biblical tracks, books and also Urdu page on your ministry website. Our all services will be provided with reasonable rates and whatever we get we use it to spread the word of God.
Would please to hear from you,
With prayers,
Somie
Pakistan
Fr. Stephen,
We, Maisie Joven and Meggy Chuatico, Year 3 students from Assumption Antipolo, would like to request if we could visit the Communications Foundation for Asia for our one-day Job Shadowing Activity this March 21-28.
This Job Shadowing activity requires us to “shadow” you for a day to give us a glimpse of the activities you do in your work daily. If you remember, we also met you during our Plaid Ideas workshop activity when we were still in First Year.
Please tell us when you are available. We are hoping for your kind consideration.
i was one of the participants of the 22nd national catechetical congress at CFA. gratefully appreciated your session on Films for Christian Educators, a big help for my ministry. God reward you for inspiring many to evangelize through social media and for the work you are doing for the mission of the Church. thank you!