Santa missa em seu lar: missa de TV: iniciativa pioneira de fé católica em Goiás

Abstract

The object of this study is the TV Mass: Mass in tlhe home , transmitted by Anhanguera Television Channel of Jaime Câmara Organization. This Mass is intended, mainly, to the people that are not able to go to church in their communities, turning them into an eletronic community of Faith. For those people, the TV Mass corry out the same function of a sacramental Mass celebrated in their local church. When people participate of the local Mass or the TV Mass, they realize the feeling of pertain, they feel identifyed with the Catholic Church and, socially, recognized as catholics. In this manifestation of pertain they confirm, simultaneously, the value of the religious principles received that they were capable to understand and conservate the esteen of what is essencial to church: The Mass. However, a study about Mass can only be done if we take the pure point of view of the phenomenology. This was the method colopted in this paper. This, the conclusion of this study is that, the participation in the Mass, eletronicoly or in their local churches, give people the feeling of Catholic pertain in various degrees, and they are recoganized by that. This corroborate, strongly, to the plentiful correspondence of an expressive and compromized evidences with the Catholic Faith life.