Recurring to Niklas Luhmann´s systemic theory as a conceptual mainframe, the communication concept and its to subordinates, media and structure, are used to analyze the interaction between the orality and the print culture in the neogranadine context of the early eighteenth century. The Quinquenio Sacro, a sermon book written by the santafereno priest Jose Ossorio Nieto de Paz, is studied due to its character, representative of the communication process proper to the society in which it was elaborated. The analysis is centered on the book´s paratexts. It concludes that even though Ossorio´s Quinquenio reflects “ruptures” towards modernity, represented in its participation in the incipient consciousness of the print possibilities, it´s also dependent of a rhetorical structure of oral background.