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Faith Formation RS1

This document discusses faith formation and living as a Catholic Christian. It outlines learning outcomes around understanding Catholic doctrine, living with faith, hope and charity, and participating in church celebrations and community service. It then discusses the difference between faith, which is trust in God, and fate, which is events outside one's control. The document explores what it means to be a Filipino Catholic, focusing on family, community, and devotion to Mary. It addresses how becoming more Christian connects to Filipino identity and culture.

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Faith Formation RS1

This document discusses faith formation and living as a Catholic Christian. It outlines learning outcomes around understanding Catholic doctrine, living with faith, hope and charity, and participating in church celebrations and community service. It then discusses the difference between faith, which is trust in God, and fate, which is events outside one's control. The document explores what it means to be a Filipino Catholic, focusing on family, community, and devotion to Mary. It addresses how becoming more Christian connects to Filipino identity and culture.

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Faith Formation

RS I
Learning Outcome
• Asses and explain the catholic Christian Doctrine which is the
foundation of faith;

• Live out their Christian faith through strong belief in God;

• Live authentic Christian Life guided by virtues of faith, hope and


charity;

• Actively participate BEC prayer session and community service in their


respective community; and
• Actively participate in the church’s liturgical celebrations every
Sunday and holy days of obligation
References :
• Old and New Testament Bible

• Catechism of Filipino Catholics – CFC

• Catechism of the Catholic Church – CCC

• Plenary Council Of the Philippines II

• Philosophy Of God

• Philosophy of Religion
Faith VS. Fate
Faith
• complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
• strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on
spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
Fate
• the development of events beyond a person's control,
regarded as determined by a supernatural power.
• an event that happens. your overall circumstances or
condition in life.
WHY?
Who is the Filipino Catholics?
• God has become man in Jesus Christ our Lord, who came to save us
from sin and bring us to fullness of life.

• This is the Gospel which we Filipinos have accepted. As PCP II


proudly declares: “For us Filipinos, the first century of the coming
millennium will mark the 500th year since we as a people accepted
the Faith”

• There are deep affinities between Christ’s message and the Filipino’s
inmost ways of thinking and acting. “Much of the Gospel has become
part of us __ compassion, forgiveness, caring, piety __ and makes of
us a basically decent people (PCP II 15)
• Catholics “must give expression to this newness of [Christian]
life in their own society and culture and in a manner that is in
keeping with the traditions of their own land.”

• We Filipinos have had a long history of very sharp and colorful


religious experiences

1. pre-Christian times
2. Spanish Christian evangelization
3. American Protestant influx
4. Japanese occupation during World War II
What it means to be a “Filipino
Catholic”
• family-oriented - The anak-magulang relationship is of
primary importance to us Filipinos.
• meal-oriented - Filipinos consider almost everyone as part
of their family (parang pamilya), we are known for being
gracious hosts and grateful guests.
• kundiman-oriented - Filipinos are naturally attracted to
heroes sacrificing everything for love.
• bayani-oriented - Filipinos are prepared to lay down even
their lives.
• spirit-oriented - We have a deep-seated belief in the
supernatural and in all kinds of spirits dwelling in individual
persons, places and things.
The Filipino Way
• “pueblo amante de Maria” - a people in love with Mary
• “Filipino” approach to Christ, therefore, is with and through
Mary. Devotion to Mary has always been intimately
intertwined with Christ.
• two central mysteries of our Faith in Christ: the mystery of the
Incarnation celebrated at Christmas, and of Redemption
celebrated during Holy Week, are deeply marked by the
veneration of Mary.
• Filipino homes witnesses to Mary as mother of Jesus and our
spiritual mother.
The Filipino Catholic
• family-centered - who can easily talk to God the Father through His
only begotten Son-mademan, our Lord Jesus Christ.

• meaning in our lives

• the Suffering Servant

• Resilient - the Filipino spirit is a longing for kaayusan


Who, then, are Filipino Catholics?
• a people who have experienced in one way or another that our
Filipino identity, meaning, suffering, commitment and world-view
are all tied to Jesus Christ. Like a diamond with a thousand facets,
Christ is able to reveal to every person and nation, their very own
unity, truth and value.
Who are Christians?
• Christians are men and women who are baptized in the
faith that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who became
man to be Savior of all. United in the Church as Christ’s
“people of God,” they live out this faith in personal
conviction, committed witness, and Spirit-inspired
worship of God their Father.
How can we become more truly Filipino
by becoming more truly Christian?
• By discovering and proclaiming Jesus Christ in our
personal and national Filipino culture, we Filipino
Catholics invite Christ to purify and heal us, and enrich
us with fuller life in his Spirit in the Church.
How does the Church relate “being
Christian” with our Filipino culture?
• There is a mutual relationship:
• “being Christian” is part of our Filipino identity,
• maturing in Christian Faith comes only from personally interiorizing
Jesus’ message in our Filipino ways of thinking, loving and valuing.
The Church teaches that we Filipino Christians must know our own
culture, and by our Christian Faith in Christ, purify, guard, develop,
and perfect it. Likewise, we must “inculturate” our Catholic Faith into
our Filipino ways. (Cf. AG 21; PCP II 202-11.)
Gods call: Revelation
• “It pleased God, in His goodness and wisdom to reveal
Himself . . . By this revelation, then, the invisible God, from
the fullness of His love, addresses men as His friends, and
moves among them in order to invite and receive them in His
own company”
how does this idea of “revelation”
relate to ordinary Filipino life?
• our personal relationships. One of the best things you can say about
a Filipino is: “Marami siyang kakilala” (He knows many people), or
“Maraming nakakakilala sa kanya” (Many people know him).

• On the other hand, one of the worst things to say about a Filipino is
“Wala siyang kakilala” (Nobody knows him), or “Walang kumikilala sa
kanya” (No one gives him recognition). So in our family relationships
and friendships we reveal our personal selves to others, and openly
receive their self-giving to us. This is what uplifts the Filipino
In Creation
• the first way God reveals Himself to us is through creation.
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament
proclaims His handiwork”

• “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Gn 1:26).
God even gives us a share in His own creativity: “Be fertile and
multiply; fill the earth and subdue it”
Biblical Signs
• God revealed Himself in stages. In the Old Testament, God revealed
Himself through biblical signs made up of both deeds and words.

• Yet, even God’s revelation in history was weakened by the


infidelities and hardness of heart of His Chosen People. But God so
loved the world, that in the fullness of time, He sent His only Son to
be our Savior, like us in all things except sin (cf. Jn 3:16; Gal 4:4;
Heb 4:15; CCC 65). Jesus Christ “completed and perfected God’s
revelation by words and works, signs and miracles, but above all by
his death and glorious resurrection from the dead”
In church
• Jesus himself had gathered around him a group of disciples who
would form the nucleus of his Church. In this Church, the “Good
News” of Jesus Christ would be proclaimed and spread to the ends
of the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit, sent down upon the
apostles at Pentecost (cf. Acts 1:8)

• He is present in the Church’s preaching the truth of Scripture, in


its witness of loving service, and through the celebration of its
Christ-given Sacraments.
In other Religions
• The Church, in her prophetic mission of “reading the signs of the
times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel” (GS 4),
discerns the seeds of the Word in the history and culture of all men of
good will.

• even non-Christians “who do not know the Gospel of Christ or his


Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and,
moved by grace, try in their actions to do His will as they know it
through the dictates of their conscience, may achieve eternal
salvation” (LG 16).
Jesus Christ
• Agent
• Content
• Goal of revelation

“We are followers of Christ, his disciples. We trace


his footsteps in our times, to utter his word to others.
To love with his love. To live with his life . . . To
cease following him is to betray our very identity”
• Goal
Jesus is “the key, the center and the purpose of the
whole of man’s history” (GS 10), in whose image we all
are to be conformed (cf. Rom 8:29).

• Content
He is also its content, the Revealed One. In
himself, Jesus reveals both God and ourselves. “Christ,
the new Adam, in the very revelation of the
mystery of the Father and of His love, fully reveals man
to himself and brings to light his most high
calling” (GS 22).
• Agent
Christ is also its agent, the mediator
(cf. DV 2). “God is one. One also is the mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who
gave himself as a ransom for all.

through his Church, the people of God, united in his


name. “The one mediator, Christ, established and ever
sustains here on earth his holy Church, the community of
faith, hope and charity, as a visible organization through
which he communicates truth and grace to all men
WHERE WE FIND GOD’S REVELATION
• Scriptures (Bible)
The Scriptures, then, are never to be separated from the people of
God whose life and history (Tradition) formed the context of their
writing and development.

three stages of how the Gospels were formed :


• the life and teaching of Jesus
• Second stage, oral tradition
• Third stage, the written Gospels.
• Tradition
the process by which divine revelation, coming from
Jesus Christ through the apostles, is communicated and
unfolded in the community of the Church, or as the
content of the revelation so communicated.

As Sacred Scripture grew from Tradition, so it is


interpreted by Tradition __ the life, worship, and
teaching of the Church.

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