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I Can
*I can live.
I can love.
I can reach the heavens above.
I can right what is wrong.
I can sing just any song.
I can dance.
I can fly and touch the rainbow in the sky.
I can be your good friend.
I can love you until the end.
Questions:
1. What are the words and phrases in the song that strike you most?
2. What do these words and phrases mean to you?
3. What is the message of the song for young people like you?
4. What are the things that you CAN do?
5. What are these for? Are these only for your own benefit? If these are not for
your own benefit, then in what ways can these things be more meaningful?
Deepening
But sometimes, we tend to misuse and abuse these values. Thus, these are clouded in
the following expression:
Word of God
Mark 10:17-30
The young man is searching for meaning in life inspite of his observance of the
Law.
The question, “What must I do to share in the everlasting life?” (Mk. 10:17)
also echoes the following questions:
DISCIPLESHIP
following Jesus
discipoloi = discipoloi = student, learner, docile (teachable)
student-teacher relationship
Christian perspective = discipleship is learning from Jesus in the way “He
thinks, feels, acts and loves” (GS 22)
By calling us to be His disciples, He knows that we have the CAPACITY to
follow after Him.
Our talents and abilities can be ways and means of following Jesus.
DISCIPLESHIP
Oriented towards others. The presence of “others” is a pre-requisite in following
after Him.
As we open ourselves to others, we come to know that they, too, are also called
by Jesus to be HIS disciples.
The CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, then, is our community where reaching out to
others in faith, hope and love is being put into life.
The BEC, a new way of being a Church, is God’s gift to the young. It is a Church
within our reach. It is a “school” where our being disciples grow and bear much
good fruit.
DISCIPLESHIP
Journeying with others; with fellow young, with fellow youth leaders, with other
BEC and Parish leaders
We can all enter through “the eye of the needle” because our minds and hearts
are fixed to God’s Kingdom.
Our human and material resources are being used for better purposes so that the
blessing we give and the blessing they received and vice-versa lead us to a life
called BLESSED.
By embracing one another, we come to discover that this embrace of ours is
God’s love that embraces us all. This is COMMUNION.
DISCIPLESHIP
Therefore, for us young Catholic lay leaders, the ultimate giver of meaning of our
existence is CHRIST. Through Him, with Him and in Him………
Our COMMUNITY is open to become the COMMON POINT in the midst of our
DIVERSITY.