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LA PATRIA | Manizales
"We recorded in three, two, one", is heard in the studio of the Archdiocese of Manizales. Immediately, the priest Jairo Carmona Ayala begins to tell how the marriage of two parishioners was damaged. This scene is repeated every Thursday, when he records with the communications team an episode for the social network Tik Tok.
The priest is known as Curatuber because for eight years he has been preaching through Youtube. Then, in August he made his debut on Tik Tok, with short and funny stories, which have reached up to 500 thousand reproductions .
After finishing telling his story, in front of a cell phone camera operated by Jhoiner Jhoany Bartolo, designer and producer of the Archdiocese, the priest watches the video carefully. If there is something that is not right, he asks to record it again.
He does it like an expert, because with his experience in Youtube he learned to record and edit his own content. On this occasion he says: "That was very good".
From the altar to the screen
The 58-year-old priest got to know the digital world when he was sent to Spain, to the town of Guareña, in the province of Badajoz, region of Extremadura, where, according to him, the people who live the faith are older adults, since young people are disengaged and distant.
"I lived in an apartment on a third floor and I saw that in the...