CFE 105 MODULE 1
Eat whatever is served = Do not be
Ad Extra “Going Out”
- availability of oneself to be sent where
CICM mission is needed especially to those
who are in need
- respect and reservation of the integrity of
whole creation
Benedict XVI
- “deepest poverty is spiritual poverty” =
inability for joy and tediousness of life =
results to lack of love, jealousy, avarice that
devastate lives of individuals and of the
world
Porta Fidei
- a letter that is a call to celebrate a Year of
Faith “New Evangelization”
- crisis of faith is the greatest challenge to
the Church = denial of faith results to loss of
deepest identity
Mission of the Seventy
- Luke 10: 1-23
1. Appointed 70 and set them in pairs to
every town and place where Jesus is about
to go = for safety, strength and support
because they are vulnerable to danger
2. “Lambs among wolves” = surrounded by
danger or vulnerable to Satan’s attack
3. Do not carry purse, bags, sandals = Live
by faith no other provisions and
dependence from God for supply; to travel
light
4. Do not greet the people you passed on
the way = Be focused and to do task of
proclaiming the good news with urgency
5. “Peace to this house” = Extend your
blessing in the houses you enter
6. Be content. Stay in the same house who
received you
7. Receive your due for the mission
8.
tinicky
9. Heal the sick
10. If not accepted by that town “Shake off
the dust from your feet and leave” =
denotes separation from those who did not
accept missionary work
Message of His Holiness Pope Francis
World Mission Day
- stimulated missionary conversion in many
communities
- Theme “Baptized and Sent: The Church of
Christ on Mission in the World”
- Prophet Isaiah “Here am I, Send Me” as
the response to “Whom shall I send?” =
challenges the Church and humanity as
WHOLE in the current world crisis
- we are all fragile and disoriented but each
of us is in need for comforting the other
- pain, suffering and death remind us of our
deepest desire for life and liberation from
evil
The New Areology of Mission
- Challenge: How to re engage Western
secularized humanity in the search for
meaning - or rather, to give it fresh focus
- New Evangelization in the digital age for
the search of meaning = respects human
freedom and autonomy and can dialogue
with diversity
- Church should be involved in new sectors
of evangelization = new Areopaguses of
Mission = crossing boundaries and
encourages laity to participate
1. Personal transcend God as part of
human affairs (cultural sector)
2. Laity enter into collegiality
(interconnected and interdependent) with
other people and culture (social sector)
3. Laity live evangelical idea of poverty
(economic sector) and comply with orders of
medical sector to flatten curve
4. Laity pursue peace, liberation of people,
promotion of lPs rights and integrity of
creation (civic sector)
5. Laity are challenged to live their lives in
aid of virtual reality (science, technology
and communication sector)
6. Laity returns to religion promoting peace
and inter-existence and not fundamentalism
or violence (religious sector)
New Trajections of CICM Mission
- CICM Tomorrow = accepted challenge of
reconceiving missionary identity
(a) adapt process of reinvention and
revitalization
(b) explore new missionary paradigms
(c) develop new missionary strategies
- impact of globalization includes poverty,
murder, unemployment, depletion of natural,
migration, increased crime rates and
terrorism = dehumanization and
meaninglessness
- CICM support promotion of global ethics
for a meaningful co-existence = MUTUAL
RESPECT FOR DIVERSE CULTURES
AND RELIGIONS
- incorporation of justice, peace, integrity of
creation
- ecumenism and interreligious dialogue
Church and Mission in the Second
Vatican Council
- the mission of those who follow Jesus
finds its origin in a deep experience -
charity, prayer and contemplation grow this
deep experience
- mission is a consecration to Christ, lived in
charity and prayer
- end missionary activity is evangelization
and forming of the Church
- BEFORE: young Churches is the center
of the missionary decree and main agents
of mission
- AFTER VATICAN II COUNCIL: mission
stands at the center of the Church with
responsibility to proclaim the Gospel to its
own people and participate in the universal
mission of the Church
- Distinction b/n sending Churches and
receiving Churches diminishes = solidarity
b/n autonomous Churches equal in dignity
that give and receive = MISSION IS
RECIPROCITY
- Missionaries are at the center of this
solidarity = instruments of missionary
dynamism and communion b/n Churchers
Evangelizing Mission or Evangelization
- 3 situations in the world today from the
POV of evangelization:
1. There are Christian communities with
adequate structures who bear witness to the
Gospel, in their surroundings that have a
sense of commitment to the Church’s
universal mission
2. There is missionary activities intended for
people and human groups who do not know
Christ and his Gospel
3. There are countries where entire groups
of baptized lost the living sense of faith or
not considered as members of Church
needing new evangelization
Terms
- Missionary adaptation or
accommodation: a missionary adapts
himself to a new culture in view of a more
effective evangelization
- Acculturation: two cultures enter into
contact; a process of cultural adaptation
imposed by a stronger culture on another
weaker one (e.g. Colonization)
- Enculturation: a person grows gradually
into his own culture, its values and
standards
- Inculturation: meeting of two groups of
people bearers of different cultures
> slow and gradual
> guided by two principles:
(1) compatibility with the Gospel
(2) the need to remain in communion with
the universal Church
> missionaries inculturate themselves from
other cultures by learning the language and
discovering the cultural values through
study and experience
Mission and Salvation
- there is a strong link between mission and
salvation
- Salvation: integral salvation that
embraces the whole person
- we are all called to a common destiny =
the fullness of life in God = becoming a man
he accepted our human nature in its
universality
- Mission: an accurate indicator of our faith
in Christ and His love for us
- salvation is achieved by opening oneself to
the love of Christ and belonging to the
visible Church (mission)
culture; missionary activity is manifestation
of God’s plan
- God’s Kingdom is the communion of
people with God and communion between
them
- Church is at the service of this Kingdom
by:
(a) establishing ecclesial communities open
towards others and ready to render them
service
(b) spreading the world Gospel values such
as justice, love, peace and brotherhood
(c) contributes to the divine plan of salvation
through witness and through such activities
of dialogue, commitment for justice,
education and care of the sick

Interreligious Dialogue
- part of the Church’s evangelizing mission
- any missionary activity has to be done in
respect for the person and culture
- the more we become aware of cultural and
religious pluralism = the more we accept
that interreligious dialogue is a path towards
the Kingdom of God

The Finality of Mission: the Kingdom of

God
- Evangelizing mission includes:
(a) proclamation of Gospel leads to
engelization and the building of the Church
(b) promotion of justice and liberation from
oppression, dialogue with people, cultures
and religions
- God’s Kingdom: manifestation of and
realization of God’s salvific plan for every