Christian Living/Values Education

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What is the subject all about?

Spiritual, Moral and Values Formation

- This formation of the student, anchored on the Gospel
centered education being offered to all students of St.
Dominic Academy of Pulilan, Inc.
- Facilitated by the CL/VE Teacher and the Campus Ministry
In-charge, which include the formal teaching of the basic
truths and the principles of the Catholic Church.
What are the Requirements?

SUNDAY MASS ATTENDANCE

 Part of the formation is to build relationship between God and the

student grounded in the Holy Eucharist.
 As required by the subject, the students have to attend the Holy Mass
every Sunday (online viewing or TV mass until permitted to attend in
physical churches/parishes).
 For other religious denomination members, your weekend
religious/spiritual activity or fellowship is valid and can be used for the
reflection activity.
Format:
• Mass Presider/ Priest Name
• Gospel Verse
• Homily
What are the Requirements?

MASS REFLECTION
 Illustrate an image or symbol that best describes
the fruits of your contemplation.
 Write a short reflection at the bottom of the image
or symbol that you’ve drawn.
 Mass Reflection will be submitted every last
Sunday of the month.
 Saint Dominic’s
Mission: To Pray, To
Preach, To Bless
Objectives:
In this module students will be able to:
 
D- Recognize that God has provided us with virtues to perfect our powers of
thinking and contemplation through prayer.
M- Embrace the mission of the Church, and their responsibility to one
another as children of our Heavenly Father.
W- Ask for the guidance of the Holy Spirit for them to be guided in becoming
a missionary of the Church.
Introduction:
• Dominicans are preachers whose
missions are inspired by the teachings
and life of St. Dominic. Throughout the
world exist Dominican communities of
sisters, nuns, friars, brothers and some
priests identified as Orders of Preachers
(OP). Dominicans, in the spirit of St.
Dominic, lead lives of study, prayer and
action.
Who is St. Dominic De Guzman
• Born in 1170 in Caleruega, Spain.
• Son of Felix De Guzman and Blessed Jane
De Aza.
• A Castilian Catholic priest founder of the
Dominican Order and patron saint of
astronomers.
• He is the foundational and ultimate
Dominican doer, also a great saint who was
a first-rate thinker.
Who is St. Dominic De Guzman
• Before founding the Order of
Preachers, our holy father St.
Dominic joined first in Augustinian
Order.
• He died on August 6, 1221 (aged
50) in Bologna, Italy (present-day
Emilia-Romagna, Italy).
"To Praise, to Bless, to Preach"
• The motto came from the Founder
of our Dominican Order, St.
Dominic.
• Praising and blessing was the very
foundation of his life. He prayed
while traveling and during his
meetings with the people that he
served.
St. Dominic’s Mission/ Dominican Motto

• Laudare – To Praise
• Benedicere – To Bless
• Praedicare – To Preach
“To Praise”: Saint Dominic and the Contemplative Style

• St. Dominic’s heart burned with zeal to preach the

good news, and he knew that to do so most
effectively he needed to know that message by heart.
• Saint Catherine of Siena, a spiritual daughter and
Doctor of the Church, wrote: “Of a truth Dominic and
Francis were two columns of the holy Church.
Francis with the poverty which was specially his own,
as has been said, and Dominic with his learning.”
“To Praise”: Saint Dominic and the Contemplative Style

• God has provided us with virtues to perfect our powers

of thinking and contemplation .
• The three fundamental intellectual virtues of science
(or knowledge — from sciere, “to know”),
understanding, and wisdom may be found together in
the Scriptures: Proverbs 24: 3-4.
• St Dominic maintained a purity of body and mind that
enabled him to see God reflected in His creation on
earth, before he would see him face-to-face in heaven.
Greatest Syntheses of St. Dominic De Guzman

• Matter and spirit: St. Dominic fought

Albigensianism, a heresy in Southern France
that sprang from Manichean roots that
considered the material realm and the body as
evil and only the realm of the spirit as good.
• Body and soul: St. Dominic did not see us as
souls trapped in bodies but as ensouled
bodies, as mind-soul unities whose bodies and
souls both are gifts from God.
The Contemplative and the Active Life

• The order St. Dominic founded

created a synthesis between the
contemplative and active lives, the
life of prayer and study and the life of
active evangelization, the life of
secluded stability and the life of
itinerant preachers, life in the country
and life in the city.
“To Preach”: Saint Dominic and the Apostolic Style

• “Be doers of the word, and not

hearers only” (James 1:22).
• In Christ’s words, to “go into all
the world and preach the gospel
to the whole creation” (Mark
16:15).
“To Preach”: Saint Dominic and the Apostolic Style

• This was St. Dominic’s burning

objective, the salvation of souls,
and his contemplative acts of
prayerful study and teaching were
the means to accomplish this
apostolic end.
To Bless”: Saint Dominic and the Charitable Style

• Although classified as a doer,

there was no doubt in the mind of
anyone who knew him that St.
Dominic was also the most
fervent of lovers.
Reference:

• Saint Dominic’s Mission: To Pray,

To Preach, To Bless
(https://catholicexchange.com/sain
t-dominic-de-guzman-lets-loose-
hounds/)