A Texas video game designer has found a way to merge his professional skills with family catechesis, creating short animated Gospel stories that reach thousands on social media. Mauricio Romero’s project, called Minisciples, transforms Scripture passages into bite-sized animations designed for Instagram’s scrolling audience. You can read the full profile at Aleteia. What makes this effort notable is that Romero’s entire family participates in the production, turning evangelization into a shared household mission rather than a solo side project.
What Minisciples does
The Minisciples Instagram account publishes short animated episodes adapted from Gospel passages. Romero uses his background in video game design to create visuals that work within social media constraints: vertical format, minimal text, attention-grabbing movement. The animations are designed to be encountered by people who aren’t looking for religious content but who might stop scrolling long enough to watch a 60-second retelling of the paralytic lowered through the roof or the woman at the well.
The project began as Romero’s individual effort but has grown to involve his wife and children in scripting, voiceover work, and creative feedback. According to Aleteia’s report, this family collaboration has become a form of shared prayer and formation, with the Romeros studying Scripture together to decide which passages to adapt next.
Why this matters
Digital evangelization is not new, but most Catholic social media efforts are produced by ministries, parishes, or individual influencers. Minisciples represents a different model: a family treating evangelization as a shared vocation, using professional skills not for a side income but for mission. The Romeros are laypeople living ordinary domestic life in Texas, not professional catechists or content creators with institutional backing. Their work demonstrates that evangelization doesn’t require a platform, a degree, or a budget. It requires willingness and creativity applied to what you already know how to do.
The project also addresses a practical problem. Scripture can feel distant to people who encounter it only in Sunday readings or dusty print Bibles. Animation makes the Gospels visual, mobile-friendly, and shareable. Whether that leads to conversions or simply plants a seed in someone’s algorithm is unknowable, but the Romeros are doing the part they can control: making the stories available where people already are.
For Catholic readers
If you have professional skills in media, design, writing, or communication, consider how those skills might serve the Church’s mission without requiring you to quit your job or start a nonprofit. Follow Minisciples on Instagram to see what family-based digital evangelization looks like in practice, and ask your own household: what could we make together that puts Scripture in front of someone who wouldn’t otherwise encounter it this week?
Sources:
1. Aleteia — original report
