MODULE IN GR.

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AUGUSTINIAN SPIRITUALITY
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Topic : Lesson 1 – OSA Charism and Vision Mission

I. Introduction:
As Augustinian, it is important to be firmly rooted in humility and to be
responsive to the challenge to become more selfless and open to others,
especially the poor. In this way, they open themselves to the works of the Holy
Spirit who guides and moves their hearts to love. By loving others, especially the
poor, they radiate the love of God to their neighbors, which in turn, lead them to
unity especially in the community.

II. Competency/ies:

The students guided with the OSA chrism and Vision - Mission.

III. Specific Objectives:

● To identify the poor in the community

● To determine ways by which one can be help to others.
● To share their times, talents and treasure.

IV. Pre assessment:

● In the OSA chrisms who are those POOR stated?

The poor stated in the OSA charism is the people that can't buy foods and
have no shelter, the people that commit their sin regularly, the people that
have not found their true happiness, the people that can't share their
blessing for others, the people that feel hopeless in life, the people who feel
anxiety and depression, and the people that still hold their past and can't
forgive other. they are considered poor. (mentally, physically, and spiritually)
the particular reason for the circumstance is they have little or no faith in
God and his Gospel.

● In your experience how Vision - Mission help you as students?

The definitions of vision and mission include a focal point that aims to unite
everybody with the value of God's teaching, thereby ensuring that everybody
serves for a common
goal._________________________________________
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V. Lesson Inputs:

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Review on:
● OSA Charism We, the Augustinian Sister of Our Lady of consolation are called to
incarnate with living faith the compassionate Christ in a Community of friends and in
humble enduring service to the needs of the church especially the POOR through
evangelization.
● Vision – Mission Moved by the spirit of the Risen Christ, we, the Augustinian sister
of Our Lady of Consolation, as community of women disciples, envision ourselves to
become prophetic witnesses by our life action – contemplation.
In solidarity with our people, especially the poor, we commit ourselves to Christ and
His mission through renewed integral evangelization that will affect personal –
communal conversion for the transformation of the world and integrity of creation
towards the realization of the Reign God.2

● Who is St. Augustine and Why he is important?

VI. Learning activities:

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● The life of St. Augustine (Watch youtube.com/watch?v=bMaSjAIZOO)
● Why study St. Augustine?

VII. Assessment:

St. Augustine was the bishop of Hippo (now

Annaba, Algeria) from 396 to 430. A renowned
theologian and prolific writer, he was also a
skilled preacher and rhetorician. He is one of the
Latin Fathers of the Church and, in Roman
Catholicism, is formally recognized as a doctor
of the church.

Reflect on St. Augustine Quotes

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 We can't unload that to God. That's why
people seem to rely more on their power.
We may seek advice from him only, but
we cannot expect him to conduct our mission.
Without aid, little job or adversity can be
accomplished.

According to Hebrews 11:1 “...faith is

confidence in what we hope for and
assurance about what we do not see."
Through the eyes of faith, we can see
that God is bigger than our problems. If
we believe and hold on to His promises
even if we do not see Him, He will grant
us of the things we believe.

Family,

father may have come from a proud, patrician family. But if he’d ever
had wealth, it was apparently gone now. So, though the Augustinus
family may have owned a substantial estate, it seems the Roman tax
collectors had milked their fluid income dry.
Patricius

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 Monica

Monica, was a
devoted Christian,
who persistently
urged her religion on
her children

adeodatus

She did, however, give Augustine a son, who was named

Adeodatus (Latin, “By God Given” or, more colloquially, “Gift of
God”).

This naming indicates an awareness that, no matter how a child

is conceived, and even if the parents did something very wrong,
every child is a gift of God.

Friends

The two friends were both converted to Christ and were

Alypius
Baptized together by Saint Ambrose in 387. Alypius helped
Augustine start the first monastery in northern Africa in
Tagaste. When Augustine was ordained a priest in Hippo, and
started a monastery there, Alypius joined that community.

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St. Ambrose

Ambrose is also remembered as the

teacher who converted and
baptized St. Augustine of Hippo, the
great Christian theologian, and as a
model bishop who viewed the church
as rising above the ruins of the
Roman Empire

From Thagaste, Romanianus was an older friend and a

benefactor of Augustine.

Romanianus was most interested in Augustine’s vision and

project of common life (community living). As well,
Augustine regarded his friend’s opinion as important
because Romanianus was wealthy and Augustine was
interested in how the concept of the sharing of possessions
would strike him.