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Sibu Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Sibu Sarawak
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Session 7. Defending the Faith in a Pluralistic Society
Session 7. Defending the Faith in a Pluralistic Society
1. Give away Catholic books, DVDS, CDs to people
2. Thru technology – Website, Blog e.g. EWTN, open line, blogger.com, Utube e.g. St Francis de Sales – use of printing press, composed Apologetic tracks, 60,000 Calvinists were converted to Catholic through Printing Press
1. Give away Catholic books, DVDS, CDs to people
2. Thru technology – Website, Blog e.g. EWTN, open line, blogger.com, Utube e.g. St Francis de Sales – use of printing press, composed Apologetic tracks, 60,000 Calvinists were converted to Catholic through Printing Press
Session 6 : Why be Catholic? Why am I a Catholic?
Session 6 : Why be Catholic? Why am I a Catholic?
1P2:15 – ready to defend
1P2:16 – reason to do it with gentleness & respect.
1. Convince that Catholic Church is the church established by Jesus Christ.
a. Historical Argument – John Henry Newman
b. Visibilities – you can see it Matt Chapter 5
c. Matt 16:15 – on this rock, I will built my church
d. Matt 28:18 – all authority has been given to me... go therefore, make disciples of all nations
e. Luke 10:16 – Authority of Christ
f. Teaching Church – teach them all that I have commanded you.
g. Perpetual Church – existence until the end of time.
h. Before 1809 – no Mormon, 7th Adventist, Jehovah Witness
i. Before 1509 - No protestant, no church of England, Baptist, Uniting Church, Methodist
j. Church started by Human Beings, not by Jesus Christ
2. Everything that Catholic teaches is true, not everything is easy
3. Papacy – built upon the Rock
4. Communion with Mary & Saints
5. Holy Eucharist
6. Moral Teaching
7. The Devil knows that the Bread & Wine is Jesus Christ.
Mission: My Goal is Heaven, My cause is for the Christ.
1P2:15 – ready to defend
1P2:16 – reason to do it with gentleness & respect.
1. Convince that Catholic Church is the church established by Jesus Christ.
a. Historical Argument – John Henry Newman
b. Visibilities – you can see it Matt Chapter 5
c. Matt 16:15 – on this rock, I will built my church
d. Matt 28:18 – all authority has been given to me... go therefore, make disciples of all nations
e. Luke 10:16 – Authority of Christ
f. Teaching Church – teach them all that I have commanded you.
g. Perpetual Church – existence until the end of time.
h. Before 1809 – no Mormon, 7th Adventist, Jehovah Witness
i. Before 1509 - No protestant, no church of England, Baptist, Uniting Church, Methodist
j. Church started by Human Beings, not by Jesus Christ
2. Everything that Catholic teaches is true, not everything is easy
3. Papacy – built upon the Rock
4. Communion with Mary & Saints
5. Holy Eucharist
6. Moral Teaching
7. The Devil knows that the Bread & Wine is Jesus Christ.
Mission: My Goal is Heaven, My cause is for the Christ.
Session 5: Living marriage to the fullest & Raising Holy Family for Christ
Session 5: Living marriage to the fullest & Raising Holy Family for Christ
1. Learn to unlearn things of the youth – Self-centredness
2. Learn to give & take
3. Learn to do without for the good of the family – self sacrifice, putting oneself last
4. Be visibly Catholic – Don’t be afraid, do the little things ...
5. Listen to the Church
“To have Holy Marriage, listen to the Church, frequent the Sacrament, don’t be selfish”
“Because of your Holy Marriage, you are going to be saved!”
1. Learn to unlearn things of the youth – Self-centredness
2. Learn to give & take
3. Learn to do without for the good of the family – self sacrifice, putting oneself last
4. Be visibly Catholic – Don’t be afraid, do the little things ...
5. Listen to the Church
“To have Holy Marriage, listen to the Church, frequent the Sacrament, don’t be selfish”
“Because of your Holy Marriage, you are going to be saved!”
Session 4: Becoming Men after God’s own Heart
Session 4: Becoming Men after God’s own Heart
Act13:20 & 1Samuel 13
Seeking after God’s will
How do we become men after God’s own Heart
a) Faith, Hope Charity – foundation
b) Rely upon God – not your own strength
c) Faithful to his teaching Luke 10:16 & Matt 28
d) Man of Prayers
e) Man of Good Example – acting in conformity of what we believe.
f) Man of Hard Work
g) Realistic & practical
h) Rely on Divine Providence to supply the need of our family
i) To be Servant Leader – Best Model is Jesus Christ – servant, leader & God
a. Not by commanding, but showing
b. Show by example, humility, obedience, submissive
c. Servant subordinate to higher authority
d. Servant serves others
e. Service based on Love
f. Servant hood based on Sacrifice..... CROSS
g. Death to Self
h. Love, Charity, Compassion, Integrity & Honesty
Leadership is mirror of servant-hood.
1) Leader is not necessarily smarter, better, holier than people he serves.
2) Leader is given responsibility to lead. Sacred Duty – Do the best thing for the people they serve.
3) Leader knows where they are going – Heaven, Church, Sacrament, Family
4) Leader knows how to get there – involves knowledge & methodology to get there
5) Leader helps others how to get there
6) Leaders have humility
7) Leader is not mandatecious (deceptive)
8) Leader has dedication – 24/7 “Conqueror”
9) Leaders motivate others to raise higher than their capabilities
10) Leader sacrifice – Martyrdom that only God know.
11) Leader knows that the mission is more important than the Leader
12) Leader leads by example – by serving the people that they lead.
Act13:20 & 1Samuel 13
Seeking after God’s will
How do we become men after God’s own Heart
a) Faith, Hope Charity – foundation
b) Rely upon God – not your own strength
c) Faithful to his teaching Luke 10:16 & Matt 28
d) Man of Prayers
e) Man of Good Example – acting in conformity of what we believe.
f) Man of Hard Work
g) Realistic & practical
h) Rely on Divine Providence to supply the need of our family
i) To be Servant Leader – Best Model is Jesus Christ – servant, leader & God
a. Not by commanding, but showing
b. Show by example, humility, obedience, submissive
c. Servant subordinate to higher authority
d. Servant serves others
e. Service based on Love
f. Servant hood based on Sacrifice..... CROSS
g. Death to Self
h. Love, Charity, Compassion, Integrity & Honesty
Leadership is mirror of servant-hood.
1) Leader is not necessarily smarter, better, holier than people he serves.
2) Leader is given responsibility to lead. Sacred Duty – Do the best thing for the people they serve.
3) Leader knows where they are going – Heaven, Church, Sacrament, Family
4) Leader knows how to get there – involves knowledge & methodology to get there
5) Leader helps others how to get there
6) Leaders have humility
7) Leader is not mandatecious (deceptive)
8) Leader has dedication – 24/7 “Conqueror”
9) Leaders motivate others to raise higher than their capabilities
10) Leader sacrifice – Martyrdom that only God know.
11) Leader knows that the mission is more important than the Leader
12) Leader leads by example – by serving the people that they lead.
Session 3: To be Christian is to be Holy
Session 3: To be Christian is to be Holy
“To grow in Holiness is to die well”
“To die in state of sanctifying Grace i.e. in friendship with God”
a) Strive to live well
b) Learn to die to the world
c) Perseverance to Charity, Hope & Faith
d) Ready to meet Christ
e) Remain detach from worldly possession.
f) Be sober, just & pious
g) Pray fervently
h) Practise Fasting
i) Give generously the gift that God has given you.
j) Be faithful to your baptismal promises.
k) Use the gift you have received in confirmation.
l) Receive the Holy Eucharist worthily
m) Confess you sin with true contrition
n) Revere Sacred Things
o) Love & Honour your spouse & Children
p) Guard your senses against sin – chastity of your eyes
q) Resolve to die well
Steps to Holiness
1. Answer Christ’s invitation through a closer union with HIM.
2. Recognise the love that God created you.
3. Recognise that you need to be yourself
4. Love Christ crucified
5. Seek union with each person of the Blessed Trinity
“To grow in Holiness is to die well”
“To die in state of sanctifying Grace i.e. in friendship with God”
a) Strive to live well
b) Learn to die to the world
c) Perseverance to Charity, Hope & Faith
d) Ready to meet Christ
e) Remain detach from worldly possession.
f) Be sober, just & pious
g) Pray fervently
h) Practise Fasting
i) Give generously the gift that God has given you.
j) Be faithful to your baptismal promises.
k) Use the gift you have received in confirmation.
l) Receive the Holy Eucharist worthily
m) Confess you sin with true contrition
n) Revere Sacred Things
o) Love & Honour your spouse & Children
p) Guard your senses against sin – chastity of your eyes
q) Resolve to die well
Steps to Holiness
1. Answer Christ’s invitation through a closer union with HIM.
2. Recognise the love that God created you.
3. Recognise that you need to be yourself
4. Love Christ crucified
5. Seek union with each person of the Blessed Trinity
Session 2: Man’s influence, effect and power
Session 2: Man’s influence, effect and power
“If you want to be a good leader, you have to be a good man”....”Be a good man”
Ingredients to be a good man e.g. Saints
“Virtue” – Latin word for Man, True man – good man with virtue
a) Charity – love, will to the proper influence of God. I am choosing to do the right thing even it is difficult.
b) Faith – conviction that what God tells us is true, what Christ has done for us on the Cross is true.
c) Hope – it is what Judas didn’t have at the end, lapse in despair
d) Humility – meek & humble of heart.
e) Magnanimity – stretch forth the mind to great thing i.e. call to do out of glory of God.
f) Prudence – Knowledge of what to seek & what to avoid
g) Courage – fortitude i.e. willingness to suffer danger for the sack of doing good.
h) Self Control – Roman 13:14
i) Justice – Righteousness / Right standing /merciful, not tyrant, love those for the sack of God.
“If you want to be a good leader, you have to be a good man”....”Be a good man”
Ingredients to be a good man e.g. Saints
“Virtue” – Latin word for Man, True man – good man with virtue
a) Charity – love, will to the proper influence of God. I am choosing to do the right thing even it is difficult.
b) Faith – conviction that what God tells us is true, what Christ has done for us on the Cross is true.
c) Hope – it is what Judas didn’t have at the end, lapse in despair
d) Humility – meek & humble of heart.
e) Magnanimity – stretch forth the mind to great thing i.e. call to do out of glory of God.
f) Prudence – Knowledge of what to seek & what to avoid
g) Courage – fortitude i.e. willingness to suffer danger for the sack of doing good.
h) Self Control – Roman 13:14
i) Justice – Righteousness / Right standing /merciful, not tyrant, love those for the sack of God.
Session 1: Men called to lead
Growing in Holiness by Patrick Madrid
Session 1: Men called to lead
Wisdom on Leadership from Biblical Giant
“You can’t lead unless you learn to follow”....
Following the Lord is the path to Leadership
“Martyrdom”- Greek word meaning “witness” i.e. lifetime of standing up to the truth. It involves suffering & sacrifice
a) Leadership by Example. Model after Jesus Christ
b) Leadership thru Exaltation. Speak the truth. Know the truth, the truth will set you free
c) Leadership by Compassion
d) Leadership by FAITH. Rely upon the Lord.
Session 1: Men called to lead
Wisdom on Leadership from Biblical Giant
“You can’t lead unless you learn to follow”....
Following the Lord is the path to Leadership
“Martyrdom”- Greek word meaning “witness” i.e. lifetime of standing up to the truth. It involves suffering & sacrifice
a) Leadership by Example. Model after Jesus Christ
b) Leadership thru Exaltation. Speak the truth. Know the truth, the truth will set you free
c) Leadership by Compassion
d) Leadership by FAITH. Rely upon the Lord.
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