MADRID, Thursday, March 17, 2011 (ZENIT.org
). - The English Episcopal Conference presented for Life Campaign 2011 with the slogan "There's always a reason to live." Day for Life takes place on March 25, the feast of the Incarnation of the Lord. The note
the bishops of the Episcopal subcommittee of Family and Life have made públicacon reason for this campaign, they say: "The life of every human being is sacred." However, "added -" there is now a darkness that leads to not appreciate the grandeur and beauty of every human life eternally loved by God. "
According to the bishops, "the dark about the sacred origin and the absolute dignity of human life extends to other times of the existence of people in that show and experience the fragility."
"There are many - add-those who do not discover that life is good when accompanied by serious illness, mental or physical disabilities, time poverty, loneliness, weakness that accompanies the passage of time or time of decline of life. "
"When society does not know the pain or make sense of human frailty and leaves people to their loneliness, members of the Church we are urged to respond with the love of Christ and engender hope in people, to feel loved and cared for in their suffering or loneliness, deceit and pain can be overcome, ie, they can find a reason to live, "they say.
For the campaign, have been distributed in the English dioceses ejemplaresde the usual materials: 15,000 posters and 50,000 for each of the following documents: information leaflet, subsidy liturgical note of the bishops. Video
surprising
This year's novelty is an amazing video, creative and full of joy. In two minutes and has four stories, you can see on YouTube and share on social networks.
The video reports that "there is always a reason to live" through four life stories, developed in parallel: an elder at a hospital with his son, a sick child who receives a gift from his family and friends, two Persons with disabilities who show acts of love and affection between them, and a grandmother who reads a story to their grandchildren.
The technical realization of the video has been responsible for the production "Two fifty-nine Films" and has had the participation of non-professional volunteer actors.
All initiatives about the campaign was articulated in a new
microsite web who is serving as a meeting point. In
www. siemprehayunarazonparavivir. Com can watch the video and the rest of the material of the Day for Life. The video is raising as many positive responses that can be seen in one place.
The website has a section in which, as the video challenges are invited surfers to give his reason to live and share with others: "There's always a reason to live: What is yours? ".
The microsite
is bound to the site of the EEC and, in turn, have links with leading social networks in which they will present the campaign.
Episcopal Conference repeats an innovative enterprise digital media following the juvenile form last year's campaign, in which thousands of people "gave up for Life" in social networks, under the slogan "It's you in you. "
"is a campaign that has a thick accent in the disease, but does not think anyone in particular or any policy proposals," said director of the Information Office of the EEC Isidro Catela, in presenting the same on Wednesday 16 March.
Asked if the video is offset euthanasia and abortion, the bishops said Catela have not thought "in a specific recipient" from the political point of view.
By Nieves San Martín 
