ADVENT RECOLLECTION

St. Augustine Parish

Brgy. Matlang, Isabel

Bro. Dodong Trinidad, SPP

Facilitator
 Recollection Schedule
8:00 – 8:30 – Registration
Unfreezers
8:30 – 9:30 – First Session:
Universal Call to Holiness
• Text: Luke 15:17-32 The Story
9:30 – 10:30 – Activity: Group
of the Prodigal Son and God’s
Sharing forgiving love.
10:30 – 10:45 - BREAK
10:45 – 11:00 – Reporting • Activity : Small Group Sharing
11:00 – 12:00 – Second Session: Sacrament of Reconciliation
Knowing Jesus more deeply
12:00 – LUNCH
1:30 - Prayer/Unfreezers
1:45 – 2:45 – Third Session:
Repentance
Tema: Celebrating God’s Forgiving Love
( Pagsaulog sa Mapasayloong Gugma sa Dios)
• PASIUNA

• Ang panahon sa Adbiyento higayon alang kanato sa

pagpamalandong sa atong pag-andam sa pagbalik sa
Ginoo ug sa paglaum sa pag-abut sa Gingharian sa
Diyos.
• Ang atong paglaum sa iyang pagbalik nadasig sa
atong pagsaulog ug paghinumdum sa iyang unang
pag-anhi. Mao nga sa manghinapos ang adbiyento
ato nang itumong ang atong mga hunahuna sa iyang
pagkatawo alang kanato.
Ang panahon sa Adbyento nagpahinumdum kanato:

• 1. it is a time to check where our heart is, for

wherever it is, there is our treasure be.”
• Isip panahon sa pagsuta kung asa nakita karon sa
atong kristohanong pagpanaw (Christian journey)
• As the bible says, For where your treasure is, there
is your heart also.”

• 2. it is also a time to step back, to discover and to

seek for more lasting and enduring values.

• Usa sab kini sa panahon sa pag-atras, pagdiskubre ug

pagpangita ug hataas ug mapadayonong butang
• This ADVENT recollection invites and challenges us to
CHANGE which demands:
• Ug usab, ang adbiyento nagdapit ug naghagit kanato sa
pagbag-o nga nanginahanglan sa atong:

• C – Courage
• H – Honesty & Humility
• A – Awareness & Acceptance
• N – New Meaning
• G – God’s grace & gift of Me
• E – Execution and Action (Commitment)
 Ang Tumong sa Recollection
• Una, pag-ila sa atong espirituhanong kagutom diha Dios
• (Identify the spiritual hunger for God)

• Ikaduha, Ang kabililhon sa atong pagpakigtagbo ni Jesus

• (Explain the importance of an encounter with Christ)

• Ikatulo, Ang pagsinati sa misyon diha sa atong pagpakig-uban

ni Jesus.
• (Discuss the mission dimension of an encounter with Christ
 Universal Call to Holiness
Text: Luke 5: 1-11 (A call to discipleship)
( Gitawag sa pagkatinun-an)

• Reading of the Text : Luke 5:1-11

A. Knowing your hunger (vv.1-2)
1. Two contrasting sight: Peter and his friends appeared
somewhat indifferent to Jesus. They went on washing their nets.
The crowd, on the other hand, pushed their way up to Jesus to
listen to what he had to say.

2. There is hunger for the Word of God in everyone. The need to

understand one’s existence is a basic reality. The need for
direction is felt so that one will find fulfillment in life. And the
Word of God is such that it will really confront individuals,
transform them and guide then to a life of grace.
• 3. Man seeks for the truth. Jesus is the truth. So
everyone is drawn to experience the person of Jesus
for them to be liberated and experienced the
fullness of life – to live for what is true.

• APPLICATION:
• a.) Whose words are we listening now? Can it give us
answers to our questions about our life? Can it give
us direction to experiencing more meaning of our
life?
• b) What are we seeking for now? Practicality?
Convenience and comfort? Where is truth? Who is
telling the truth?
• c) What is your attitude to God and his Teachings?
B. ENCOUNTERING JESUS ( vv.2 -3)

• 1. Jesus saw two boats pulled up on the beach. He got

into one of it sat on it and taught the crowd.

• 2. Out of many boats, Jesus chose Peter’s boat to

teach from. What does it mean?
• a) the image of the boat reflects the image of the
Church. How is our church now?

• Still most of the Catholics are still indifferent to

the church: beyond these factors, we see failures in
renewal have come from a deeper source: our
hardness of heart and resistance to conversion
b) The Person of Peter
• Peter , the fisherman, was told by Jesus, a carpenter, to
fish. Should an engineer listen to a vendor how to build a
bridge?
• In a worldly standard, no, he won’t. But Peter obeyed.
Obedience is the key for Peter to know Jesus more deeply
and at the same time himself, a sinner not worthy of the
master’s love. The encounter with Jesus allowed Peter to
have a better glimpse of God loving and affirming being.

• The moment we see God, we couldn’t help but see

our failures. We come to acknowledge our own
sinfulness. But as to how we respond to this
largely depends to us. Either we ran away from his
love or we listen more closely to God and accept
his command.
APPLICATION:
• a) When was the last time we felt the presence of God in our
life? Kanus-a man ang katapusan nga imong nasinati ang
presensya sa Dios?

• B. How did we respond to his presence? Have we come to

acknowledge our sinfulness? Have we listened to him in humility
and accept his command?
• Giunsa man nimo pagtubag ang iyang presensya? Ato bang
giangkon ang atong pagkamakasasala? Namati ba kita kaniya
diha sa pagpaubos ug pagdawat sa iyang sugo?

• c) As believers, we are the Church. Have we involved ourselves

towards the renewal of the Church as community of disciples
and as a church of the poor. Isip magtotoo sa Dios,
nagapakabana ba ikaw alang sa kabag-ohan sa Simbahan isip
katilingban sa mga tinun-an ug simbahan sa mga kabos?
C. BECOMING FISHERS OF MEN

• 1. Do not be afraid: from now on you will become fishers

of men.”
• 2. What does it take to become fishers of men?
• a) Conversion, a change of heart, is what is needed. But
this is incomplete if we don’t recognize that conversion is,
first and foremost a response to God’s action in us,
namely his affirming love.
• b) it must be also that before Peter came to that point
of conversion, Jesus made two requests to him. What are
these requests? Which one seemed easier? Which one
had a greater effect on Peter? Could he obey the second
without the first? Is it fair to day that conversion comes
only when we are able to say yes to God in small or big
ways? Is it fair to say that saying yes to God is a matter
of risk taking that calls for faith in us?
IV. PROCESS

A. INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION/WORK

1. Do you have any “hunger” right now? In your heart? In your

community? In your place of work? What causes these
“hungers” in you?

Aduna bay kagutom karon sa imong kinabuhi?

sa imong kasingkasing? Sa imong katilingban? Sa imong
trabahoan? Unsay may tinubdan sa maong kagutom?

2. Do you feel any hunger for God? What did you do about it?
Adunay kaba’y kagutom sa Dios? Unsay imo gibuhat niana nga
kagutom?
3. what have you done in order to fill your self from the
hunger that disturbs you?
Unsay imo gibuhat aron imong mahulipan ang imo
kaugalingon nga kagutom nga nagtandog kanimo?

4. Jesus calls you to take small and big steps in order to

cast your nets into the deep. Are you ready to say
yes? Are you ready to take the risk? What do you
think Jesus is asking you right now?
• Si Jesus nagtawag kanimo sa paghimo ug ginagmay o dinagko nga
lakang aron imong itaktak palawod ang imong pukot.
• Andam ka ba sa pag-ingon ug Oo.?
• Andam ka ba sa pagsagubang sa mga kalisdanan?
• Sa imong hunahuna, unsa kaha ang gipangayo ni Jesus kanimo ,
karon?
 Summary:
• Conditions of discipleship (Mat 10:37-42; Mk 1:16-20)
• 1. Self-denial/God centered
• 2. Lover of cross/persecutions
• 3. Follow me

• Call to first disciples (Mk 1:16-20; Lk. 5;1-11)

• 1. Come after me, I will make you fishers of men
• 2. Left their nets, father Zebedee and boat; left everything
• 3. Follow Jesus
• REWARD: Mk 10:29
• Whoever given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or
father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake for the
gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this
present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and
children and lands, with persecutions and eternal life in the age
to come.
 Sesyon 2: Repentance (Pagbasol)
• Repentance is a very important part of our life, Christian
life. Not only do we have to repent when we forsake our
sins, but there are times we need to repent as we follow
Christ and realize we have sinned in some ways.

• Story: Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 17- 32)

• Discussion:
• A. Who’s hurt when we sin?
• 1. What happens when a Christian sins?
• a. He feels miserable
• b. The Father is grieved and longs for the son to
repent and come back to Him.
2. What are the usual thoughts that prompt us to repentance?

• a) Fear and Punishment

• b) Want to get rid of guilt feelings

B. How the Prodigal Son came home?

All lost men must come home to God much like the
prodigal came. (Note his five steps to the father)

1. Reflection: Luke 15:17 “when he came to himself”

2. Resolution: Luke 15:18 “ I will arise and go to my
father”
3. Return: Luke 15:20 “And he arose and came to the
Father”
a. Got up and away from the evil life
b. Turned to his father
c. Made his confession
4. Restoration: Luke 15:22-24 “ Not made a hireling,
but a son and an heir.”
5. Rejoicing: Luke 15:24 -32
• a. When did this rejoicing begin?
• b. Who led this special season of rejoicing
• c. Why was it so great?
Steps to true repentance: How the prodigal came home

• Desire: to get away from home and God

• Demand: Give me the portion of goods
• Departure: “Took his journey”
• Dissipation:" Wasted his substance”
• Destitution: “Began to be in want”
• Degradation: Joined himself unto a citizen who sent
him to feed swine.
• Defeat and Death
 THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE PRODIGAL ‘S
CONFESSION

• The confession brought five great experiences to the prodigal

son:
• a) Forgiveness: made everything right
• b) restoration: not made a hireling, but a son, much beloved and
an heir.
• c) New Opportunity: To be somebody and live for the best and
noblest things
• d) Feast of Good things: the best robe and all the best things
the father had were graciously bestwoed upon Him
• e) Great rejoicing: The deepest and highest joys come only to
those who have done two things.
• - gotten right with God
• - found the place and service he made for us.
 D. THE MARVELOUS FATHER OF THE PRODIGAL
SON

• Three things about the marvelous father of the prodigal

• 1. His amazing goodness and grace
• a. Treated his hired servants well
• b. gave both boys al he had while they were with him
• c. gave the younger one his right full portion – though it was not
due him yet.
• d. entreated his oldest son to be generous and forgiving
• 2. His unchanging love and mercy
• a. loved the prodigal before he went astray
• b. loved him and looked for him while away
• c. saw him a far off and ran to meet him, embrace him, forgive him
and restore him to sonship
• d. gave him the best he had
3. HIS ENDLESS POWER AND BLESSING

• a) forgives the guiltiest soul with a word

• b) restores the most wayward of earth to the
bonds of sonship
• c) gives the greater sinner the most marvelous
reception
• d) bestows the best gift of heaven upon the
unworthy one who repents
GROUP DISCUSSION:

• 1. Isip kristiyano, unsa man ang dakong gasa o

butang nga akong buhaton isip pagpangandam sa
pag-abot ni Kristo sa Pasko o sa iyang ikaduhang
pag-abot?

• 2. isip asawa, bana o anak, unsay pinakadako nga

gasa nga akong ihatag ngadto sa akong pamilya(
bana, asawaa, o mga anak)