Catholic Mission People and Ministries in the Catholic
Church
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Introduction One thing we all like is to belong in some way or
another to a family. Families may take different forms, but it is
love that makes a family. That is why Jesus asks us to love one
another the way that he has loved us (John 13:34). Our family
should have no limit. God dreams for us to all be one family with
one loving Father, even a world family. Creating a world family is
the task Jesus left for us. It is our mission. In other words,
mission means building happy families so everyone can understand
Gods love for them. Mission means loving and caring for each other,
caring for creation and caring for our world, and making one world
family. It is easy for us to get information about how our sisters
and brothers around the world live. We also understand how our life
and our choices affect them. Therefore it is important that we make
the right choices to act to help everyone of our global family so
that everyone can live life in all its fullness as Jesus wanted. In
this worksheet are true stories of young people who have had a
tough life and who are working towards making life better for
everyone.
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Where a roof over your head means the difference between living
and dying. Being homeless is all the same, whether youre in
Australia or Thailand. Liam 12, Sydney.
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Our Mission To achieve Life for all in the work of Global
Mission The Son of God came that we may have life and have it
abundantly. Catholic Mission sharing in the mission of the church
in the world enthusiastically commits itself to carrying on the
unfinished mission of Jesus as its own mission. As did Jesus,
Catholic Mission is sent to: * bring good news to the poor, *
proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, *
let the oppressed go free, * proclaim the year of the Lords favour
(Lk 4: 18). Catholic Mission understands this mission of
Evangelisation to be: 1. the inauguration of the Reign of God in
the person of Jesus Christ 2. and the proclamation of the Good
News.
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The Good News is proclaimed most powerfully in selfless acts of
love. By these acts, Christians are both signs and revelations of
Christ. This witness is the first and irreplaceable form of
mission. The Reign of God is fully realised when the necessary
conditions are created which ensure equality and respect for the
dignity of all persons, and a guarantee of human rights as the
values reigning supreme in the world. This ideal only becomes
reality when we place the intrinsic value of the human person at
the centre of our lives and our societies, and encourage the living
out of the Gospel values in service of the person. This mission of
bringing good news in all its forms (proclamation of the Word,
witness, dialogue, justice making, denouncing injustice,
repentance, the putting on and revealing Christ) is inclusive of
all peoples. It excludes no one. Catholic Mission is not afraid of
acting contrary to popular opinion where the dignity of the person
is at risk, to protect the innocent, the powerless and exploited,
that is the anawim of our planet, and will stand in solidarity with
the weak and the suffering. Catholic Mission also works with the
exploited and marginalised to empower, enable and ennoble them to
reclaim their rightful participation and inclusion in the human
family.
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Select one of the following countries to base your research on:
Philippines Thailand Tanzania Bangladesh Fiji
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Using the country you have selected, write a 150 word paragraph
describing a person who has experienced living in poor conditions.
You may wish to include: Descriptions of their living environment
Descriptions of their day-to-day requirements to survive
Quotes
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Using the country you have selected, write a 150 word paragraph
describing a person who has experienced living in poor
conditions.
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Reflect upon the life of the people from your selected country
Describe in 150 words how you would survive on the street (in your
selected country ) for one day. Think about: Where exactly do you
live? How do you get money? What do you use the money for? How do
people treat you (consider your appearance and that you may have a
disease)? Where do you put your things? Where do you wash? Do you
go to school? How do you feel?
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Reflect upon the life of the people from your selected
country
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Create a collage of film or images which identify the variety
of functions Catholic ministries play to assist those in your
selected country.
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Images and Film Attachments
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Attach quotes explaining the benefits of those who have
received assistance from Catholic ministries
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Hope for a new life Investigate a story about how missionaries
have allowed others to have a new life and describe why they choose
to assist others. 200 words
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Hope for a new life
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Outline how missionaries help to support communities You are
required to include specific examples of the duties Catholic
missionaries have performed to support communities. This question
may be answered in dot point form over at least two [2] slides, 20
-24 size font.
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Personal reflection Someone once said, Often the difference
between life and death is simply the luck of where you were born.
You are required to respond to this statement in 150 words. Use the
following questions to guide your reflection: Do you agree with
this statement? How does it apply to the lives of those you have
researched? Do you agree with Liams statement on slide 3? Being
homeless is all the same, whether youre in Australia or Thailand.
Liam 12, Sydney. Why or why not?
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Outline how missionaries help to support communities
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Gospel Reflection Our mission is to build family and include
everyone as Jesus did. Read this story from the Gospel of St Mark
2:13-17 on the following slide. But first we need to understand the
work of tax collectors. The tax collectors worked for the Romans
who were foreigners. The tax collectors collected money from the
Jewish people and passed it to the occupying foreign army of the
Romans. For this reason the tax collectors were despised and
rejected and called sinners.
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Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd gathered
around him and he taught them. As he was walking along, he saw
Levi, son of Alphaeus, sitting at the tax collectors booth and he
said to him, Follow me. And he got up and followed him. As Jesus
sat at dinner in Levis house, many tax collectors and sinners were
also sitting with Jesus and his disciples for there were many who
followed him. When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that he was
eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples,
Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners? When Jesus heard
this, he said to them, Those who are well have no need of a
physician, but those who are sick; I have come to call not the
righteous but sinners. Gospel Reflection: Mark 2:13-17
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Reflection on what Jesus teaches us 1. Explain why the village
didnt like tax collectors or the other sick and poor people? 2. How
would you define in your own words the term outcast? 3. Explain why
were the Scribes and the Pharisees so angry that Jesus was eating
dinner with the tax collectors and other people who had been
outcast from the village? 4. Explain why Jesus chose Levi and asked
him to follow him? 5. Explain why Jesus shared a meal with Levi,
the other tax collectors and people who had been outcast from the
village? 6. List examples of the people we reject and treat as
outcasts in our society? 7. Describe how can we include others more
in our own lives?
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Reflection on what Jesus teaches us
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Website resources Child Rights Information Network:
www.crin.orgwww.crin.org Jubilee Debt Campaign:
www.jubileeaustralia.orgwww.jubileeaustralia.org Global Call to
Action Against Poverty: www.whiteband.orgwww.whiteband.org Make
Poverty History Campaign:
www.makepovertyhistory.orgwww.makepovertyhistory.org
www.newinternationalist.org Millennium Development Goals for the
United Nations: www.unicef.org/sowc06/ www.unicef.org/sowc06/
Catholic Mission: www.catholicmission.org.au 1800 257 296
