Basic Ecclesial Community Orientation:
1. What it Means to be a Parish
2. Parish Pastoral Council
3. Church Ministries
4. Church Movements and Organization
5. Integral Evangelization
6. The What and Why of BEC
7. The How of BEC
Basic Ecclesial Community Orientation:
1. What it Means to be a Parish
2. Parish Pastoral Council
3. Church Ministries
4. Church Movements and Organization
5. Integral Evangelization
6. The What and Why of BEC
7. The How of BEC
Lumen Fidei: Pope Francis on Faith (Presented by St. Jude Oshkosh Faith Forma...rsaley
What is the true meaning of faith? How does faith impact our lives?
This presentation gives Pope Francis's reflections on faith. It provides an overview of the major themes of his first encyclical letter, Lumen Fidei or "Light of Faith."
The Catechesis Office and Discipleship and Parish Life Office are pleased to offer A Facilitator’s Guide for The Faith We Believe: Unpacking the Creed. Please visit our website to download. We have also created this PowerPoint Presentation to accompany the Facilitator’s Guide.
We hope parish groups and others wanting to deepen their reflection on the Creed find this resource helpful.
Who is the Holy Spirit? Learn more, including the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit. Take up the challenge by Pope Francis by praying to the Holy Spirit.
Lumen Fidei: Pope Francis on Faith (Presented by St. Jude Oshkosh Faith Forma...rsaley
What is the true meaning of faith? How does faith impact our lives?
This presentation gives Pope Francis's reflections on faith. It provides an overview of the major themes of his first encyclical letter, Lumen Fidei or "Light of Faith."
The Catechesis Office and Discipleship and Parish Life Office are pleased to offer A Facilitator’s Guide for The Faith We Believe: Unpacking the Creed. Please visit our website to download. We have also created this PowerPoint Presentation to accompany the Facilitator’s Guide.
We hope parish groups and others wanting to deepen their reflection on the Creed find this resource helpful.
Who is the Holy Spirit? Learn more, including the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit. Take up the challenge by Pope Francis by praying to the Holy Spirit.
This is the National Competency Based Teachers Standard or NCBTS developed by the Academic Community, and other concerned government agencies to transform teaching into 21st century standards and the teachers as a globally competent individuals.
Presentation on the Vatican II Document regarding the ministry (apostolate) of the Laity. This document empowers the Lay Christian to share in the Mission of the Church
Similar to Proposal for Re-evangelization of the Philippines by Frank Padilla (20)
Blog article on the Leonardo Polo Institute of Philosophy Conference held last Sept. 29, 2014 at IESE Madrid and info on the Journal of Polian Studies.
Leonardo polo transcendental anthropologyAliza Racelis
Brief description of Spanish Philosopher Leonardo Polo's "transcendental anthropology". Anthropological Transcendentals: 1) Personal co-existence, 2) Personal freedom, 3) Personal knowledge, 4) Personal Love. http://www.leonardopoloinstitute.org/journal-of-polian-studies.html
I am told by http://www.linkedin.com/pub/maria-blanca-costa-oliana/69/78b/a21 that I have permission from the authors/owners of the slide presentation to share this publicly.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
Proposal for Re-evangelization of the Philippines by Frank Padilla
1. A PROPOSAL FOR THE RE-EVANGELIZATION OF THE NATION CELEBRATING 500 YEARS OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE PHILIPPINES (1521 TO 2021) By: Frank Padilla http://www.frankpadilla.com/Frank_Padilla/A_Proposal.html
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4. The Philippines, even though still considered a strongly religious nation, is threatened as well by the dark forces that are engulfing the world. While the churches are packed, only 15-20% of all Catholics regularly go to Church on Sundays. While divorce and abortion are not legal, more and more Catholics are separating, aborting and contracepting. While society is still fairly conservative, premarital and extramarital sex are becoming widespread, and there is increasing homosexual activity.
5. Today the dark forces are marshaling their strength for a final push against the culture of life and against the Catholic Church. These are powerful forces, such as the European Union, the US government under President Obama, elements of the United Nations, billionaire philanthropists, liberal media, homosexualist and radical feminist forces, etc. Given the position of our nation as still a bastion of Christianity, of traditional family and of the culture of life, the Philippines is a major target.
6. We need to prepare for the onslaught of evil upon our land. This is especially critical since the enemy is already within the Church, whether these are increasingly liberal Catholic educational institutions, feminist nuns, Catholic politicians promoting reproductive rights, etc. But more importantly, we need to prepare to fulfill our destiny as God’s light to the world. This then is a proposal, to be implemented in 2011 and for ten years thereafter, culminating in 2021 on the 500th anniversary of Christianity here, for the re-evangelization of the Philippines.
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8. Re-evangelization is crucial. Nothing much else can be done unless our people are renewed in Christ and living in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is for both laity and clergy alike. To be God’s light in the world, we must grow in the very holiness of God. Family renewal is crucial. The family is the basic unit of society, and as Pope John Paul II has said, the future of humanity passes by way of the family. The enemy, knowing this, seeks to destroy the family. The family is the most basic ecclesial community and is the mission base for doing evangelistic work outside the home.
9. Defending the culture of life is crucial. This is the fight of the third millennium. The evil forces are concentrated on promoting the culture of death, and are committed to spread its errors throughout the whole world. The US government is leading the charge, with a strong commitment to having abortion as a universal human right.
10. Working against poverty and social injustice is crucial . The very mission of Jesus is to bring good news to the poor—spiritual, material, emotional, societal. Building the Church of the Poor is the only way true peace and even prosperity in the land can be achieved.
11. Re-evangelization There should be a program that is effective in bringing people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The program should be replicable throughout the parishes, to be conducted by laypeople under the guidance of the clergy. The program should provide for an ongoing support environment, so that the initial transformation in Christ will deepen.
12. It should be a program that has proven effective in bringing people to Christ in every situation and with people of different backgrounds. Such a program is the Christian Life Seminar (CLS). This consists of 9 different sessions. With simple training, mature parish leaders can handle this program. The CLS effectively leads people to accept Jesus as their Savior and Lord, and to look to living their lives in the power of the Holy Spirit. It promotes a charismatic spirituality, which is the spirituality of the early Church.
13. After the CLS, the graduates find their support group in the many different associations within the parish. These associations have many different formation programs, which can serve to deepen the faith of their members. An important aspect of formation is the Biblical apostolate, with a program such as the Liturgical Bible Study (LBS) that builds capability to proclaim/share the Good News to neighborhood groupings such as the BEC model of being Church.
14. Family renewal While the program starts with individual renewal, since each individual needs to personally experience transformation in Christ , it must move on to renewing marriage and family life . Family is crucial to the well-being of individuals and of the whole nation. Family is also the most basic educational institution for raising God-fearing men and women.
15. Crucial to the evangelization of the family is the role of the men. Traditionally many of those who are active in the Church are the women. But family renewal cannot happen unless the men assume their proper role as head of the home according to the plan of God. Here there should be marriage enrichment seminars and retreats, as well as youth and family formation courses. Further, there should be smaller cell groups to which couples and other individuals can belong to, where they relate to their peers and support each other in the Christian life.
16. The culture of life There should be intensive pro-life formation. The different pro-life groups already have all the material. What is needed is to have a deliberate and sustained pro-life teaching and training, conducted by laypeople but supported and even pushed by the parish priests. Pro-life groups should also form an effective coalition (not necessarily formal) where there is united effort whenever needed, where there is a sharing of resources, and where functions would not have to unnecessarily overlap.
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18. One such program is a holistic work of poverty alleviation that involves values formation , building homes , and providing soft programs for education , health , livelihood and environment . It builds physical communities among the poor, which communities would be perfect as Basic Ecclesial Communities [BECs] .