PHENOMENOLOGY 2.

Lay Apostolate - religions (consecrated life)

PHENOMENON- EVENT 3. The Religious - single blessedness, married life
LOGY- STUDY
Ordained Ministry
Culture of DEATH (kills the soul) - bishop
D-ivorce - priests (diocesan, missionaries)
E-uthanasia
A-bortion Consecrated life (poverty, chastity, obedience)
T-rafficking - Contemplative life (monastic life, hermits, consecrated
H-omosexuality virgins)
- Active life (secular institutes, religions institutes, societies
"Conquering ideologies" - indirect message of apostolic life)

Magister Lay ministry (baptism, matrimony, confirmation)

- master - Single blessedness
- teacher, guides - married life

Rule #1: go outside of the event, distance yourself from it Ordained Ministry
Rule #2: see it from another angle - Arise from the sacrament of holy orders. These minsters
Rule #3: suspend your biases and prejudices receive the authority and power to serve.
- acting in the person of Christ
Seen-zoned
- zones (reality) The Degrees of the Sacrament of Orders
- limitation 1. Bishops
- parameters 2. Priest
- sin-zoned 3. Deacons

Callings in Life: On Discovering one’s Vocation The first 7 deacons

Vocation
It Comes from the Latin Term, “VOCO, VOCARE” which
means I CALL, TO CALL
“Ministry, in its most general sense, therefore is not a
privilege of a selected few but the vocation of all baptized
Christians…” CFC 1420- 1427
Ministry
- Service
- serving the people of god in a stable fashion
- Public activity of a baptized disciple of Christ
- animated by grace of the Holy Spirit (charism)
**charism - Greek term "charis" (gift, grace)
- performed on behalf of the Christian community
- For the service of the kingdom of god
- empowered by gift of faith
- Identifiable within the diversity of ministries inside the
church
1. Doing Something
2. For God’s Kingdom
3. in Public
4. On Behalf Of the Christian Community
5. Empowered By a Gift of Faith
6. Identifiable Within the Diversity of Ministries inside the
Church
Different Ministries in the Church
1. Ordained Ministry - priesthood-holy orders
- Nicanor
- Prochorus
- Parmenas
- Timon
- Nicolas
- Stephen
- Philip
Diocesan Priests
These are men, who received the Sacrament of holy orders
Whose primary tasks is to work in cooperation with
bishops. They are assigned to administer Parish works like
of celebrating the sacraments and join people in the
community.
Priest Religious /Missionaries
These are men who received the sacrament of holy orders
of whose primary tasks is to work for a particular charism
or mission of their order or congregation. They are sent as
missionaries, as teachers, as workers for the youth etc.
The Religious Brothers and Sisters
Those faithful who bind themselves to Christ in a
State of life consecrated to god by the profession of the
evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience.
CCC 914
The state of life which is constituted by the profession of
the evangelical counsels while not entering into the
hierarchical structure of the church.
CCC 918
From the very beginning of the church there were men
and women who set out to follow Christ with greater
liberty and so imitate them closely by practicing the
evangelical counsels. They led lives dedicated to god each
in his own way. Many of them under the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit became hermits and founded religious families.
Catacombs – secret place to worship
St. Benedict of Nursia
St. Augustine of Hippo (was a womanizer)
St. Francis of Assisi (wants to be faithful to the gospel)
St. Dominic De Guzman
St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of The Cross
St. Ignatius of Loyola (was a soldier; Jesuit)
Various Forms of Consecrated Life
1. Monastic
2. Heremitic
3. Religious institutes
4. Secular institutes
5. Societies of apostolic life
Heremitic and Monastic Life
Hermits devote their life to the praise of god and salvation
of the world through a stricter separation from the world
(fuga mundi) the silence of solitude and assiduous prayer
and penance. (CIC 605)
Consecrated Virgins and Widows
From apostolic times, Christian virgins and widows called
by the lord to cling only to him with greater freedom of
heart, body and spirit have decided with the church’s
approval to live in the respective states of virginity or
perpetual chastity for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.
Secular Institutes
Are institutes of consecrated life in which a particular
Christian faithful living in the world strive for the
perfection of charity and work for the sanctification of the
world especially from within. Their witness of a Christian
life aims to order temporal things according to god and
Inform the world the power of the gospel.
Societies of Apostolic Life
Whose members are without religious vows pursue the
particular apostolic purpose of the society and lead life as
brothers or sisters in common according to a particular
manner of life, strive for the perfection of charity through
the observance of their constitutions. (CCC 930)
Of Lay Ministries
Founded in the sacrament of baptism and confirmation
and for a good many of them, the sacrament of
matrimony.
CCC 910
“The laity can also feel called or be in fact called to
cooperate with their pastors in the service of the ecclesial
communities for the sake of its growth and life. This can be
done through the exercise of different kinds of ministries
according to the grace and charisms which the lord has
pleased to bestow on them.”
To Fulfill the Mission of Communicating Christ…
“The church needs all the lay faithful, rich and poor, with
the special gifts, individual and collective, of farmers,
fishermen, workers, mass media practitioners, educators
and lawyers, civil servants, those in medical and nursing
services and professionals in the various strata of society.”
PCP II 434
Lay people are called by god to make of their Apostolate,
through the vigor of their Christian Spirit a leaven to the
world.
Matrimony – mater
Baptism – laos (people)
Confirmation - (firm)
On Married Life
• It is a vocation
• It a gift from god
• involves discernment and preparation
Sta. Teresa De Avila
- Spanish Carmelite mystic
- Reformer of the Carmelite Order
The Filipino Context: Family and Marriage for Filipino
Catholics 1876-1879
How do we view family and marriage?
- Most important reference group
- The core of their alliance system
- Loyalty to family and kin
- Security, strength, and support
- Family solidarity and togetherness
- Concern for welfare and honor
- rank high in their priorities
Highest Cultural Value: National Catechetical Directory of
the Philippines
What is happening?
- is going abroad the only way?
- third parties
- gay marriage
- purely civil marriages
- contraceptive mentality
- the scourge of abortion
Weakening of Filipino family and marriage
- brought about by sexual revolution
- secularizing modernization True Happiness
- disposable Man's happiness lies in fulfilling himself and attaining the
- instant end to which he is ordained
- digital
- breakdown of traditional moral and religious values Man's destiny
"You are to share god's life..." 2 Peter 1:4
*We are attacked by this new ideological colonization*
Be the person god wants you to be
Pope Francis in PH - According to our nature
"The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the - In his design
part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, - In his original purpose
by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of
openness to life" Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) has decided to keep
his previous coat of arms, chosen at the time of his
What are the factors affecting the growth and maturity of episcopal consecration and marked by linear simplicity.
a person?
The Shield
CCC 1700 The dark blue shield is divided into 3 sections:
If one's genetic inheritance is a given, that the individual Official Seal of the Society of Jesus which Represents Jesus
cannot change, environment and education could still and the religious order in which the Pope was ordained as
modify his growth in character and personality a priest in 1969. The symbol shows a blazing yellow sun
with the letter HIS inside, the sign for the name Of Jesus. A
Education of moral conscience began at home by the Red Cross rises up from the Letter H and three black nails
parents is a lifelong project of the human person endowed rest below.
with reason and free will The bottom part of the shield depicts a gold eight-pointed
star and gold spikenard flower, which represent Mary and
Factors of maturity Joseph, demonstrating the Pope’s devotion to the Holy
- Heredity Virgin and St. Joseph.
- Environment
- Education The Motto
- Sacramental grace “Miserando atque eligendo” – taken from a passage from
the venerable Bede, Homily 21, on Feast of Matthew
Dimensions of maturity which reads: “Vidit ergo Jesus publicanum, et quia
- Physical miserando atque eligendo vidit, ait illi, ‘Sequere me’”
- Psychological (Jesus, therefore, sees the tax collector, and since he sees
- Social & cultural by having mercy and by choosing he says to him: ‘Follow
- Spiritual me’)
Pope Francis’ motto is inscribed on a white, red-edged
What are the characteristics of a mature person? banner underneath the shield.
- Prayerful & humble
- Morally upright (prudent, self-disciplined, just and Symbols of Papal Dignity
courageous) The shield is surrounded by the papal insignia, a miter and
- Responsible (competent, committed, decisive, faces the keys of St. Peter. The miter was something Pope
consequences, admits one's fault) Benedict XVI established in 2005, putting an end to the
- loving (forgiving, compassionate, respectful) three-tiered tiara that, for centuries, had appeared at the
- self-sacrificing, patient, perseveres in doing good top of each Pope’s coat of arms.
The Silver miter has three gold stripes to mirror order,
*to mature is to be attuned with your nature* jurisdiction and magisterium, and a vertical gold band
connects the three stripes in the middle to indicate their
CCC 1706 unit in the same person.
Summing up all perfections in man, it is living a moral life The two crossed keys have been part of papal emblems for
that bears witness to his dignity of person because true centuries and symbolize the powers Christ gave to the
freedom is pursuing perfection by seeking and loving what apostle Peter and his successors.
is true and good The papal emblem uses a gold key to represent the power
in heaven and a silver key to indicate the spiritual
What is the ultimate end of man? For which is he authority of the papacy on earth. The red cord that unites
destined? the two keys alludes to the bond between the two powers.