Story is NOT to illustrate a point or moral, Story is to help us live into experience, grow into lots of lines of connection. Story provides an ongoing, never ending source of fascination and new clarification, continuing to resonate in our experience. During his work on Mark's Passion Narrative, when he was looking for the meaning of the story, and finding only source criticism, historical essays, etc. he felt God saying, memorize the narrative in Greek and chant it. History of the Storytelling in the Oral Tradition Trying to understand the transition from orality to literacy. No structural importance for the Church.
Media plays an instrumental role in communication.
Meaning is in the message, not media. The book Catechism is a reflection of this. Electronic culture is the enemy. Homes, tribal gatherings. Parents required to tell stories, the gate was the place for passing on stories.