THEOLOGY 4

UNIT 4

- All of us, they don’t anymore that

they can be seen.

- Pope Francis
- We are called to be missionary in - How you can be a saint.
our own specific field. - Lumen Gentium.
- You are the now of the church. - Full Christian life.
- Christianity
o Relationship
o A way of love
o The new way
o Antioch
- We need to be perfect kase perfect
si God.

- Carlo Acutes
- Be who you are

- 7 days of the week

- Temptation
- Greed
- Sin| Forgetfulness
- God created everything good and
when he created man-very good.
o Doctor- Teacher
o These are the saints
acknowledge by the church
- Before you become a saint, blessed
muna through beatitudes.
- Offer their lives to Jesus by being
Martyrs.
- 3 angels: Gabriel, Raphael, Michael
- 12 apostles
- Religio Lecita- Legit religion.
 - All of us are called to communion to
- Christianity as one of the official heaven.
religion. - The church is everyone who follows
Christ.
- Theodosius I - 3 members:
o Church Triumphant – People
Road to Holiness that are happy in heaven
- Martyrdom – Virginity – Question o Church Suffering – People in
yourself purgatory.
▪ Purgare (latin)
o Church Militant -Pilgrim
Church (Pope francis)
▪ Trying to enter
heaven
▪ People here on earth.

- We can all be saint by being holy

- St.Thomas Aquinas
o Not perfect. No one is
perfect because we are
simply human.
- Everyone can be saints o Tried to be perfect
o Chastity
- We should not rebel.
- We all have our own cross.

- Joy and sense of humor

o Optimism
o Joy in service

- Everyday God shows us His mercy.

- (1) Need daw dapat ng 3 miracles
para maging saint ka pero kay Pope
Francis, charity daw and love.
- Too fast paced di na daw tayo
makareflect.
- Atheistic- you must be mistaken.
- We need to connect our spirituality
with the divine.
-
- You should balance.
- If you are not doing things you can
easily give in to temptation.
- Church.
- We must have a silent time for god
to listen.
- Day to day life.
- Good and evil are there everyday.
- We have the tendency to sin.
- Everyday we have a choice either to
do good or to sin.
- Tell us to become saints
- The youth has a mission
- Christus vivit – Christ is alive
- Post synodal – requires a process,
there is questioning first, there is a
certain issue in the society during
those time that is needed to be
responded
- Concern of the youth, issue of the
youth, struggle of the youth, hat is
the part of the youth to the society
- The first one is just a letter telling
everyone that we can be holy, but
this, it should undergone a rigorous
process
- Lineamenta – outline of the
questions and points of the study
- Instrumentum laboris – when we
have synodality gatherings. From the
lineamenta, will be given to rome
and the information collated will
 become the instrumentum laboris.
Fruit of lineamenta
- Nuntius – after the synod, message
that will be received by the pope
- Apostolic Exhortation – concludes all
the process.
- Prodigal son – the idea of him being
sorrowful towards his sinfulness
- The exemplar of youthfulness is
Jesus Christ.

- Jesus Christ is youth

- dedicating himself to the will of the
father

- The young generation have the

tendency to exclude Christ
- The youth can be too practical, too
individualistic
- Ultimate sin is against the
environment
- Apathy
- (1)Youth today – digital natives
- When we are allowed to commit
mistake, we thought it is our
privilege.
- Aim for the best of yourself.
- Gideon is the judge (youngest judge - (2) Many young people are in crisis
of all) - Everything is good but in
- Samuel – prophesize moderation. Longings becomes
- David – favored king of Israel burdens if not achieved.
(beloved one) - (3) being open to culture and
- Solomon – wise one motivation
- Servant girl of Naaman – save
Naaman from leprosy
- Ruth – young woman married to
someone, her love towards her
husband beholds the love for her
mother in law, wherever you will go
I will go. Symbol of dedication and
true love towards her husband

- Continued what he think is correct,
did not succumbed to the ideologies
- License and freedom – license doing
whatever you want without
hindrance. Freedom doing what is
ought to do, what should to do = to
do the will of God
- Live according to himself, his
situation
- Ginagawa niya kung ano gusto niya
pero yung gusto niya is always
congruent to the will of God
- Pope Francis is trying to use
terminologies that can be
understand by the young people
- His heart is for us
- Theological reason (why God
created us) – sheer love and
goodness
- Biblical foundation – there is no one
to till (?) the soil, He needs a helper
(Genesis 2:5)
- He love us so much, that He wanted
us to know that he will not forsake
us, he will not give up on us
- How precious are we to God
- Gave up His life for us
- We are more than the things that
we buy, the perception of other
people, we are not objects for the
malicious thought of other people,
- we are persons with dignity, that’s
why we should go beyond the
ideologies that dehumanize us. Like
pragmatic
- it does not only say that Christ is
real, but it is highlighted that Christ
is powerful and He resurrected from
death
- our belief will devoid our meaning
- what you doing to appreciate the
salvation Christ has given to you
- the holy spirit is the source of youth
at its best
- we need to have devotion to the
holy spirit
- sign of the cross is already an
impact/creed – profession of faith,
to say that the father is the mind of
all things, superior one.
- Holy spirit is the guide, guiding you
to the right path
- Am I guided towards my path?
- For us to be truly guided, we need to
do everything for our best friend
- Family
- You will do everything that truly
matters, that makes you holy
- There is a tendency to build a wall
between the old and young
generation. There’s always a
misunderstanding. A reason for us to
dialogue not to build walls
- If we know what is happening
before, not forgetting the past, if we
forget the past, we might commit
the same mistakes again
- Very important ang evaluation
- (1)In hierarchy, people below are
following whatever the higher ups
are doing
- The young people are not being
seen as participants in church’s
activities
- Synodal – sitting around the table,
everyone is given the chance to
talks, pantay-pantay.
- (2)Outreach – you sharing yourself
to other people, helping other
people so they can improve. Helping
 them to develop and at the same
time improve yourself as well.
- Growth –
- (3)They are part of the family, they
can now share themselves within
that family.

- Education that is capable to show

- How we teach the young
- When we teach the young, the
educational institution should not be
too much protective to the people
(Bunker schools)
- Don’t teach the young what the
older does (new kerygma)
- Different culture/paradigms. Wide-
ranging – other religions, sexuality,
gender
- Teaching the students that problems
are to be solved with different
approaches
- Don’t be afraid to reach out to other
people
- Open themselves, have friends
- Becoming a person having concern
towards the needy
- The education will not be one-sided
- Integrate head, heart, and hands
- Youth ministry should promote
integral development of young
people
true humanity
- We are not a thing that don’t have
feelings, being human means we are
respected
- We are in condition that promotes
our common good, our rights
- Focus also on our responsibility,
tinuturuan maging tao, magpakatao
at ituring ang iba na tao rin
- Liberal education
- tendency of public schools that is
being told to be successful so they
can have money and become rich
- giving opportunities to young people
and asking questions particularly
their purpose in life
- we need to ask deeper so that we
can help all the more those in need
- wrong – if we just see everything in
our benefit
- the bible is not simply a book of
faith, but a love story between God
and its chosen people
- Jesus Christ will always be the one
that is nanliligaw satin
- Three vocations:
- Married life – an issue wherein
married life is watered down. You
can be committed. Pray that
someone will be asking you
- Work – to serve people in our work
- Special consecration – consecrated
life. Bias of Pope Francis.
- We should not only question
whether we will be happy in that
work, but how we can serve all the
more in service
- Everything that we do should be
decided with much wisdom and
prudence, not only for ourselves but
for others as well.
- What is the will of God for me and
how can I know if it’s the will of God
- It is a will of God if there is peace
(peace of mind when you choose it),
then eventually you will become
happy
- We keep on praying
- Discernment is a process of
prayerful decision making
- Prudence – most important virtue as
it speaks about not only our own
welfare but also the others. Another
people is another self. Not do
anything evil against other people.
Seek what is good and what is
fitting.
- patience
- if you want to help people in their
discernment, you need to have a
listening skill, need to know how to
listen well
- need to be sensitive and grasp
exactly where grace or temptation is
present
- what is driving the other person, you
are not the one who should decide,
but help to know the path.
- For us to become truthful, we need
to be the one to follow first

- We recognizes how precious you are

as part of the whole humanity
- Do not forget to be grounded with
the love of God, love of the family
- Mali yung iniisip nila satin if we
become better person