THE PURPOSE OF

LIFE
“A Call to
Belovedness”
Welcome
MAGSINGAL NATIONAL HIGH
SCHOOL
 Opening Prayer

Taize Song

a) Bless the Lord my soul and bless his Holy name.

Bless the Lord my soul who leads me into life.

Moment of Silence:

b) Stay with me remain here with me

watch and pray, watch and pray.

 Awareness of God

Ladies:

I am learning on the heart of God.

I am resting there in silence.

All the turmoil that exhausts me

is brought to bear on this great love.

Gentlemen :

No resistance or complaint is heard

as I lean upon God’s welcome.

 Ladies :

I lean, and lean, and lean upon this heart

that

hurts with me.

Strength lifts the weight of my distress.

Courage wraps around my troubles.

Gentlemen :

No miracle of instant recovery.

What is your expectation to
our recollection?

What is your contribution to

make our recollection more
successful ?
 Reminders for a Recollection

1. Active participation must be

expected.

2. Always wear your name tags.

3. Surrender your Cellphones to

your Teacher.

4. Know to practice silence.

 What is RECOLLECTION?

 Special time with oneself, others

and with God.
Recollect all the things happened
in our life.
Recollect PPF experiences and
 “ you are dear to me…
A) What is your
You are precious…
unforgettable
experience about I accept you for what
thEsE phrases ? you are..
I LOVE YOU..
B) When was the
last time Iba ka talaga!
somebody told
you? You are wow,
C) What is your Galing Mo!
feeling when you I LOVE YOU
heard it? VERY MUCH.”
GOD IS OFFERING US
A RELATIONSHIP;

YOU ARE MY BELOVED, ALLOW

ME TO LOVE YOU AND MAKE
YOU MY BELOVED

Giving each other the gift of our

belovedness
 Belovedness
* is rooted in who God is and, therefore,
who we truly are at the core of our
being as children, images, and partners
of God.

* is the deepest reality of who we are

as sacred images of God.
 who am I & who are we?
- It leads us to the understanding that God is our
creator.

• Emphasized :that WE ARE CREATED BY

GOD AND WE ARE CREATED FOR GOD.

With the purpose in life..

• Realizing we are not our own, we belong
to God.

• Created in the image and likeness of God.

Holiness is the graced
response to the incomprehensible
surprise of our belovedness, the only

appropriate response to God who

not only created us this way but who

invites us into a partnership

characterized by

passionate, prodigal

Love.
 •Being the
Beloved
• means recognizing God's gift of
love to us.

• The world's default is basically

rejection of us until we are found
worthy of its standards and
values.
 This is the essence of being the beloved.

By depending on the world means slavery to

the world.

By Opposite
depending on God
voices of means freedom from
belovedness are sothe world.
loud and
persistent that we tend to
"Becoming the beloved
believe and own themmeans letting the truth of
our belovedness become enfleshed in everything
already.
We fall into the trap of
we think,
self-rejection.
say or do."
You are important and you matter.
Your feeling matter.
Your voice matters
Your story matters
Your life
matters.
Your Gods beloved Always.
 Eucharistic Prayer

At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his Passion
he took bread and giving thanks, broke it, and gave it to his
disciples saying: Take this all of you and eat of it, for this is my
Body, which will be given up for you.
•
One of the ways that
emphasizes OUR
PURPOSE IN LIFE
is the need to
respond to the
Spirit's Work in our
lives through four
• The first step in realizing our purpose in life is to

be TAKEN , chosen by

God. Another word for “take” which may be

warmer to use is “choose”.

As children of God, we are God’s

chosen ones.
• All of us need to hear the assurance that God
has chosen us for who we are, and not what
Making us feel that
we are better, more
precious or valuable
than others, our
awareness of being
chosen opens our
eyes to the
chosenness of
There is a place for
everyone - a unique,
special place.

Once we deeply trust that

we ourselves are precious
in God's eyes, we are able
to recognize the
preciousness of others and
their unique places in
God's heart.”
The world tends to be destructive in its treatment of us.
What are some of the ways that the world tries to take us
away from God?
the 3Ds
Destructive Distracts Our Delusions about
Control: Identity: Entitlement:

The world The world tries to The world misleads

label us otherwise, us into thinking that
manipulates,
we are entitled to
controls, and seducing us to
worldly stuff.
makes us hungry reject our real Instead, we ought to
for power which selves in favour of learn to oppose
eventually something such secular
destroys our true artificial. delusions by being
grateful.
selves.
The second aspect of THE PURPOSE OF
OUR LIFE is TO BE BLESSED.
 “The blessing that we give to each other are
expressions of the blessings that rests on us from
eternity.

a) The deepest affirmation of our true self.

b) We also need an on-going blessing that

allows us to hear in an ever-new way
that we belong to a loving God who will
never leave us alone.

c) “Claiming your own blessedness always

leads to a deep desire to bless others”.
The world tries to motivate
us through fear, anxiety, and
some sense of insecurity.

Instead, living spiritually in a

secular world is to
remember we are already
blessed in God.

Like children being blessed

by parents, we can in turn
bless others as blessed
people as ourselves.
How to bless and be blessed?

Pray Constantly
Cultivation of Presence
Pray Constantly
Whenever we feel the world
pressuring us to conform, pray.

The work of PRAYER is to become

silent and listen to the voice that says
good thing about us.

Wait for the Spirit to move in our

hearts, and instead of becoming victims
of the tyranny of the urgent, and
worldly expectations, we become
victors when we become agents of
Cultivation
of Presence

Being attentive
It is not enough
to one another to say we are
Christians. We
must live the
is faith, not only
with our words,
but with our
actions.
The third aspect of the purpose of our life is to
be BROKEN.
Each of us are unique and no one brokenness
can be compared with another.
"Our sufferings and pain are not
simply bothersome interruptions of
our lives; rather, they touch us in
our uniqueness and our most
intimate individuality.

The way I am broken tells you

something unique about me.”

The world is a broken world, and tries

to drag us into a spiral of destructive
two suggestions to
tackle this.

1.Befriend our
brokenness:
2.Put Our
Brokenness
Under a
 Befriend our
brokenness:
It is part of our
identity. Do not
deny ourselves the
 Put Our
Brokenness
Under a Blessing
Learn to make
plans to address our
pain in a meaningful
way, rather than
outright rejection of it.
Fourthly, just as Christ gave
of himself, we the Beloved
ought to

be GIVEN.
The greatest
fulfilment for

each of us is to

give our
Two ways to Give

Giving in
Life
Giving in Life

Here we learn to use our

gifts and talents for the
benefit of our community.
Giving in Death
Strange though it may
seem, this suggestion
basically means that
all of our life is
actually to prepare
ourselves for a good
dying.
Like Jesus whose purpose on earth is to die that
the world may live, we too are to adopt an
attitude of keeping the end in mind.

This is what makes the spiritual life so much more powerful and
meaningful than the world of secular living.
•Living as the Beloved
We do not belong to
this world, so why live
according to the
values of this world?

We are blessed from

above, so let us live as
blessed from above.
The call to belovedness
* A journey of transformation
* A call for a renouncement

* A call to difficult acknowledgement of

limitation, of errors and of time for healing.

* A call for our shortcomings and mistakes

not so much as faults but as opportunities
for improvement.
Realizing our purpose in life

* A call to discover our true self,

evaluating our goals our hope, our
dreams, our behaviors for the
opportunity of greater life.

* A call for a careful discernment to

Can you identify what stage of your life you
are in at the moment?
Taken(chosen)

Blessed

Broken
You are my
beloved Son. On
you my favour
rests.” (Luke 3: 22)