LECTURE 2- HUMAN DIGNITY IN THE REDEMPTIVE ACT OF CHRIST AND ULTIMATE DESTINATION OF HUMAN

PILGRIMAGE
OUTLINE
I Bureau of Corrections
II The Redemptive Act of Christ
BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS
• The Philippine government adheres and believes that all persons
have dignity whether one is a criminal or not.
BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS FUNCTIONS
• Safe keep prisoners convicted by courts,
• Prevent prisoners from committing crimes,
• Provide inmates basic needs,
• Ensure rehabilitation programs are made available to the inmates
for their physical, intellectual and spiritual development
• Develop livelihood programs to assist inmates earn a living and
develop their skills while in prison.
• The Bureau of Corrections
o logo or seal also summarizes its
goal featuring a rehabilitated
inmate (white) while in custody of
the seven (7) prisons and penal
farms (bars) thru educational,
therapeutic, productive
approaches and restorative
justice.
o He looks forward to a brighter future (rays
of the sun), but would need the assistance of his family and
loved ones, the society and the church, for him to
completely undergo transformation and re-integrates
successfully in the community.
• “Prison life can acquire human features and be enriched by a
spiritual dimension... should be considered an essential element
in a penal system that is more in conformity with human dignity.
• Punishment cannot be reduced to mere retribution, much less
take the form of social retaliation or a sort of institutional
vengeance.
• Punishment and imprisonment have meaning
if, while maintaining the demands of justice and discouraging
crime, they serve the rehabilitation of the individual by offering
those who have made a mistake an opportunity to reflect and to
change their lives in order to be fully reintegrated into society.”
HUMAN DIGNITY IN THE REDEMPTIVE ACT OF CHRIST
PROTOEVANGELIUM
• The promise of salvation brought about by sins of our ancestors is
fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
• “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your
offspring and hers; He will strike at your head, while you strike at
his heel.”
• Redemption comes to us above all through the blood of his cross,
but this mystery is at work throughout Christ's entire life:
o In His Incarnation – “Word made flesh”
o In His Hidden Life – Obedience
o In His Word through Teachings, Parables, Beatitudes,
Prayers and Proclamation of the Kingdom of God;
o In His Healings and Exorcisms
o And in His Resurrection.
TYPOLOGY OLD TESTAMENT NEW TESTAMENT
Tree Tree of Knowledge Cross (tree of life)
Garden Eden Gethsemane- Golgotha
Angel Lucifer Gabriel
Woman Eve Mary
Man Adam Jesus
THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS IS THE CROWNING
TRUTH OF OUR FAITH IN CHRIST
• A faith believed and lived as the central truth by the first Christian
community; handed on as fundamental by Tradition; established by
the documents of the New Testament; and preached as an
essential part of the Paschal mystery along with the cross.
• Jesus‘ words, deeds and suffering had for its aim restoring fallen
man to his original vocation.
• This is a testament to the dignity of human beings that despite of
the Fall and sinful nature, God affirms, transcends the elevated
nature of humanity.
• Christ continues to reveal Himself to us and expresses in different
ways particularly through our conversion and redemption.
• Restoration of those who sinned and became slave of sin finds its
foundation in the dignity of the human person and redemption
by Christ through the programs of the Church, government and
other groups.
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
• Restorative justice- in the criminal justice system is a way of
responding to ending the effects of crime that makes the people
affected.
• Restorative justice seeks:
o to repair harm,
o to appropriate responsibility for the harm
o to involve those who have been affected by the harm,
including the community, in the resolution.
DESTINATION OF OUR PILGRIMAGE
• The Ultimate Destination of our Human Pilgrimage: To Return
to the Father
o Our pilgrimage here on earth will be finally fulfilled together
with all creation, to share in Christ's resurrection and in the
eternal communion of life with the Father and the Holy
Spirit.
• Israelites in the Promised Land
o In the Old Testament, the Israelites journeyed to the
Promised Land led by Moses.
o This pilgrimage of faith from deliverance from Egyptian
slavery to the land given to them by God so that He can
establish Himself a relationship that was lost due to sin of
Adam.
o The covenant that God established with Abraham, chosen
to be the father of a multitude of nations, opens the way for
the human family to make a return to the Father.
• Parable of the Prodigal Son by Pope Francis
o In the parable of the Prodigal Son, Pope Francis described
the father, with patience, love, hope, and mercy had never
for a second stopped thinking about his lost.

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o And as soon as he sees him still far off, he runs out to meet
him and embraces him with tenderness, the tenderness of
God, without a word of reproach: his son has returned! and
that causes the joy of the father. In that embrace for his son,
the Pope exclaimed, is all that joy.
o The Pope reminded us that God is always waiting for us;
he never grows tired.
o Jesus shows us this merciful patience of God so that
we can regain confidence, hope-always.
o God's patience has to call forth in us the courage to return
to him, however many mistakes and sins there may be in
our life. For we are not numbers, we are the most important
thing to him. (Merciful Father, 2016)

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