The document discusses several topics related to religion including discernment, discipleship, vocation, prayer, and Christian hope. It defines discernment as finding God's will through reflection and spiritual experiences. Discipleship involves remaining with Jesus, being sent out, and humbly placing one's trust in God. Vocation refers to divine calls to marriage, single life, religious life, and clergy. The document provides guidance on nurturing one's vocation through prayer, which can take many forms from traditional prayers to nature. Christian hope is grounded in Christ and the resurrection of the body to eternal life through God's transforming grace.
The document discusses several topics related to religion including discernment, discipleship, vocation, prayer, and Christian hope. It defines discernment as finding God's will through reflection and spiritual experiences. Discipleship involves remaining with Jesus, being sent out, and humbly placing one's trust in God. Vocation refers to divine calls to marriage, single life, religious life, and clergy. The document provides guidance on nurturing one's vocation through prayer, which can take many forms from traditional prayers to nature. Christian hope is grounded in Christ and the resurrection of the body to eternal life through God's transforming grace.
The document discusses several topics related to religion including discernment, discipleship, vocation, prayer, and Christian hope. It defines discernment as finding God's will through reflection and spiritual experiences. Discipleship involves remaining with Jesus, being sent out, and humbly placing one's trust in God. Vocation refers to divine calls to marriage, single life, religious life, and clergy. The document provides guidance on nurturing one's vocation through prayer, which can take many forms from traditional prayers to nature. Christian hope is grounded in Christ and the resurrection of the body to eternal life through God's transforming grace.
The document discusses several topics related to religion including discernment, discipleship, vocation, prayer, and Christian hope. It defines discernment as finding God's will through reflection and spiritual experiences. Discipleship involves remaining with Jesus, being sent out, and humbly placing one's trust in God. Vocation refers to divine calls to marriage, single life, religious life, and clergy. The document provides guidance on nurturing one's vocation through prayer, which can take many forms from traditional prayers to nature. Christian hope is grounded in Christ and the resurrection of the body to eternal life through God's transforming grace.
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RELIGION REVIEWER
DISCERNMENT
Careerism
- An exaggerated self concern and materialistic notion of success.
Heart
- Universal symbol for love.
The heart seen as the:
- Deep center of a person.
- Core of one’s being. - Place of prayerful reflection with God and others.
Christian Discernment
- Is a process of finding answers to our questions and making decisions in the light of our faith.
Discernment
- Is concerned with finding the will of God in the events of our daily lives and with regard to our major choices.
SKILLS IN DISCERNMENT
- An experience of God. - Listening to the living word of God. - Prayer - Seeking God in peace. - Seeing a spiritual director.
An experience of God
- Scripture teaches us that God constantly uses human persons and material realities to make his presence felt.
Listening to the living word of God
- One way of recognizing God’s presence in our lives is to be aware of the presence of the Holy Spirit and his gifts.
Prayer
- We can develop a discerning heart only by becoming persons of prayer.
Seeking God in peace
- When we enter into prayerful silence and let go of our fears, insecurities, and hung ups in life, we let the Lord speak to our hearts.
Seeing a spiritual director
- A spiritual director is someone who is mature in faith and has the ability to guide in terms of his/her life in faith.
DISCIPLESHIP
3 SIGNIFICANT ELEMENTS THAT PERTAIN TO DISCPLESHIP
“I CHOOSE YOU”
- Our discipleship is a gift, something that is freely offered
“TO BE WITH ME”
- Our first calling is to “remain with” Jesus and go through life’s journey with him by our side.
“TO BE SENT OUT”
- When we have been touched by a concrete experience of being loved by God.
“WALK HUMBLY WITH GOD” IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE OF FAITH. IT MEANS PLACING OUR DEEPEST TRUST IN HIM ALONE.
1.) Keeping the Lord’s day
- we give thanks to God primarily the eucharistic celebration 2.) celebrating the major feast - a.) the immaculate conception – December 8 - b.) Christmas December 25 - c.) Mary, mother of God – January 1 3.) observing the days of fasting and abstinence to abstain is to refrain from eating meat - all who are age of fourteen are n=bound by the laws of abstinence, which apply on Ash Wednesday and Good Frida. 4.) Celebrating the Sacrament of reconciliation (confession) The church lists confession as a part of our ordinary “easter duty” 5.) Receiving the sacrament of anointing of the sick. We are encouraged to receive the sacrament of healing. VOCATION
- a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career. a divine call to God's service or to the Christian life.
Lay State
a. Married Life - Catholic Church teaches that marriage is a Christian vocation it is saying that the couple's relationship is more than simply their choice, a response from a man and a woman who promise to build love and life.
b. Single-Blessedness - is a call at the service of God and His people. Some single people put time and energy into a ministry to which they feel they are being asked to focus their efforts and often that involves their professional lives and just being present in a way others who have family and vocational commitments cannot be.
Religious State - commits his or her life to sharing in the life and mission of their religious community. Religious priests, brothers and sisters embrace the call to poverty, chastity and obedience, and nurture their call through a life of celibacy, faith, prayer and service.
Clerical State
- a vocation to the Priesthood and Diaconate to those whom He has called. Within this Catholic jurisdiction, any woman or man can become a candidate for Orders, regardless of marital status, ethnicity, orientation, race, or socio- economic standing.
NURTURING OUR VOCATION
Prayer - is a loving, conscious, personal, relationship with God.
Types of prayer A - ADORATION C - CONTRITON T – THANKSGIVING S – SUPPLICATION 0 – OFFERING AUTHENTIC PRAYER
1. grounded in Sacred Scripture and the great
prayers of the Church’s liturgy; 2. actively related to others in our concrete human context; 3. consciously seeking to discern and follow the Spirit’s movements within us; & 4. formative and transformative in regard to personal growth (CFC 1495)
TYPES OF PRAYER
1.) RECITING TRADITIONAL PRAYERS
- They are prayers that have permanent validity because they express the fundamental relation between ourselves as human persons and God.
2.) LISTENING TO RELIGIOUS SONGS
- Fr. Horacio de la Costa, S.J.: “Music is our common language. We have 47 dialects; we understand each other best when we sing. We are one people when we pray.
3.) SILENT PRAYER, OR THE PRAYER OF QUIET
- Is a kind of praying without the use of words or text. Allow the silence filled with the presence of God to embrace you and sleep into your being.
4.) PRAYING WITH NATURE
- Nature bears the imprint of God’s beauty and wisdom.
5. PRAYING AS THE SAINTS DID
- Learn about how the saints prayed. Find out what could help you pray better.
6. THE CONSCIOUSNESS EXAMEN OF ST. IGNATIUS
- Is a form of prayer where we gain a sense of the total picture and a deeper appreciation of what is happening in our daily lives.
7. GO ONLINE - Search in the Internet for websites on prayer. Reason why we pray: 1. To be transformed by God 2. To respond to God’s call for us to “be still” 3. To draw strength from Christ
DIFFERENT WAYS OF PRAYING
A.PERSONAL PRAYER - Jesus: our personal prayer must be sincere, done in God’s presence, and for God alone to hear. B.PUBLIC, COMMUNAL, LITURGICAL PRAYER - The Lord’s prayer is the prayer taught us by Jesus is a communitarian prayer. Liturgy is the public, official prayer of the Church.
CHRISTIAN HOPE
- Christ has revealed To us the one already know - the resurrection of our body and life everlasting. Hope is the virtue, grounded on Christ our Lord and experienced in the “love of God poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit” (Romans 5:5)
- Add a little bit SOURCES OF OUR CHRISTIAN HOPE The encouragement of Scripture The Gospel the awareness of God’s call. All of these are grounded on Christ, our hope of glory.
- LIFE EVERLASTING means a life transformed by God’s Spirit into the perfect fulfillment of every dimension of our present human lives (CFC 2060). The THREE LEVELS of TRANSFORMATION: PERSONAL LEVEL COMMUNITY LEVEL COSMIC LEVEL
- We experience grace, the eternal life that has begun already in the here and now: Through our love for one another. Eternity is an ongoing process. Sharing in Christ’s eternal life is a gift and at the same time a social task. Caring for the environment.
