One writes in the keywords: “Palm Sunday”, “Easter”, “Baptism”, “Marriage”. And immediately the replies flash up on the screen to the many questions posed by all those curious surfers on the web “who are standing on the threshold of the Christian community, i.e. all those non-practicing Christians who form the majority of believers”. Providing information via Internet on the sacraments and pastoral ministry of the Church: that’s the aim of “Cybercuré”, the internet service made available by the diocese of Nanterre. Since it was introduced in October 2000, the service’s website has been accessed by a total of 126,000 visitors, with an average of a thousand or so visits per day, a number that is continuously increasing, especially as major Christian festivities approach. The method used by the service is that of questions and answers (“Faq”), with 200 brief and succinct explanations and over 500 links for more detailed information. “To involve people standing on the threshold of the Christian community explains the editor of the site you need to start out from the questions they themselves pose and not from the teachings one wants to give or the message one wants to transmit. Abandoning the attitude of teacher or pastor, you need to find a manner suited to bringing non-practicing Christians back to the faith”. “It’s often thought that communication is a problem of vocabulary he adds . That’s true only in part. More deeply, it’s the way in which questions are tackled that is crucial”. In recent days one of the “Faq” most clicked is that on Easter. Among the many replies to the questions, one may thus find a French legend linked to church bells, which stop ringing from Good Friday to Easter Sunday, as a sign of mourning for the death of Christ: “During these days so goes the legend the bells go to Rome to fetch the Easter eggs, which on their return are hidden in gardens, so that they can be hunted by children, as is the tradition”.
