Basic content of the church's catechesis

Chapter 5 Basic content of

Church’s Catechesis

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Objective

faith

Early

Christian

Believer’s

acts of

faith

Believer’s 1977

synod

John 14:6 LG 31, 34-

35

Doctrine

Creed

Kerygma

Didache

(teaching)

Believing(i

ndicative

Head

Conviction

Knowledge

of Word of

God

Truth Prophet

Morals

Command

ment

Virtues

Diakonia

(service)

Doing

(imperativ

e)

Hands

Commitme

nt values,

Virtue

Witness

Profession

of Faith

Way King

Worship

Sacrament

s

Prayer

Koinonia/

Communit

y

Leiturgia/

Liturgy

Trusting

(Vocative)

Heart

Prayer of

faith

Memory

Celebratio

n

Life Priest

*Norms in

Presenting

the Gospel

Message

1.Christocentric

2.Trinitarian Christo-

centricity

3.A message proclaiming

salvation

4.A message of Liberation

5.Ecclesial Nature of the

Gospel Message

6. The Historical Character

of the Mystery of Salvation

7. Enculturation of the

Gospel Message

8. A message Meaningful

for the Human Person

9.Integrity of the Gospel

10.Comprehensive and

hierarchical Message

*Centered on the person of Jesus Christ

1. The task of catechesis is to promote a

personal relationship with Jesus

2. Christ is the center of Salvation History and

ultimate meaning of all human history

3. the Gospel message is the living Word of God

4. Central catechesis are the four Gospels.

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






Only by professing faith in God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, can Jesus be center of catechesis.

*

1. The internal structure of catechetical

presentation must always be through Christ

to the father in the Holy Spirit.

2. Following Jesus own pedagogy in revealing

the Father as acting as Son, and the Holy

Spirit by his salvific works

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






3. A message

proclaiming salvation

The “Good News of Salvation” is a saving

message.

1. Father is revealed who is among us

2. God offers His gift of Integral Salvation

*3. Proclaiming the justice of God, call to

conversion, formation of authentic Christian Values.

*4. Kingdom is inaugurated in the person of Jesus

Christ.

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






1.Integral Human Development

2.Moral Education/preferential option

for the Poor

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






*Church Ministry of the Word

*Christian Community Received it, celebrates it,

lives it, and communicates it in many ways.

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






*Based on Biblical Narrative

*Presenting the “Deeds and Words”

*Explaining the Creed

*Connection of the Sacraments within the History of Salvation

*“Deeds and Words” connection to signs of the times

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






*Christ’s incarnation is the original “inculturation”

*Our Model of inculturation.

*Same thing with the inculturation of Jesus, Gospel

Message also penetrates even in different Culture of

people.

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






Catechesis, then. Working from this identity of

human experience between Jesus and his

disciples aims at leading Christians to follow

Christ.

*Doctrinal themes illumine the basic experience and

values of all human persons.

*Moral catechesis presents the authentic “Good Life”

*Liturgical catechesis.

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






*Integral

presentation

characterized

by an organic

hierarchically

ordered

presentation

1.Christocentric


centricity


salvation



Gospel Message




Gospel Message






The whole message is organized around the

mystery of the Holy Trinity from Christocentric

Perspective, to which all other truths are

connected in varying degrees.

*Basic three fold

pattern of Christian

Faith

*

Situationer

Doctrine in Catechesis

Integration of Doctrine in the CFC

Basic aspects of Doctrine

*Situationer

*Ignorance of the doctrine of the Faith

*Doctrine(creed): impersonal, abstract,

irrelevant and dead formula.

*Difficulties to present the creed as living,

saving, liberating truth.

*Lacking catechesis: result to --- religious

ignorance, vulnerable to the influences of

aggressive fundamentalists and evangelical

groups

*Situationer

*Certain confusion in moving from the simple, definite

memorized catechism answers of the past. To the more

descriptive, less clearly defined, life-experience

centered, post Vatican II catechesis.

*“minimum learning competencies”

*Folk Catholicism

Situationer




*Doctrine in

Catechesis

*Christian Faith and Catechesis ---

doing good and memorizing dogmas

*Doctrine in

Catechesis

Communicate

Christ’s Message

Unifying

Filipino

Catholics

Relating to non-

Catholics and even to

non Christian filipino

Understanding

/interrelating

the mysteries

of faith

*Doctrine serves more

immediate personal

needs

Our self-identity

Guiding our

own

religiosity/

avoiding

fanaticism

Follow St. peter’s

admonition

Interpret our

own daily life

experiences

Situationer




Summary

*Integration of

Doctrine in the CFC

Christ is our very

life, of our self-

identity as his

disciples.

Inner organic unity coherence among truths

of the Faith

Making “alive”

• Direct their affective religiosity

• use of imagination creatively

• “come alive” when related with

Filipino values

• Inculturating the Filipino values

to the doctrine of faith

“who we are

Situationer




*

Doctrine’s inner unity and coherence

Doctrinal development

Doctrinal Hierarchy

Doctrinal relevance to Filipino Catholics

fundamental experiences

*

*263. To understand any particular

doctrine means to see its

connections with others truths of the

Faith, to get sense of their inner

unity and how they form the

foundation for the ordinary teaching

of the Church’s Magisterium

*

*Seeing the connections, the

implications and consequences of

Christ’s becoming man in relation to

our creation.

*

Goal: maturity of faith in a systematic and

holistic way, by inter-relating the fundamental

mysteries of our faith.

*

*Doctrine: not all the same

*“there exist an order or hierarchy of truths

*Basic aspects of

Doctrine: Certain

Hierarchy

*Development of doctrine is “timeless”

*They are truths whose expression has been

hammered out over centuries

*

266. Priorities of Church

Renewal:1. Empowerment of laity for social

transformation

2. Family evangelization

3. Ecumenism

4. Inter-religious dialogue

5. Formation for mission

*

*Inculturation

*

Catholic

*Situationer

*Morality in Christian Life

*Morality in CFC

*Emphasis in Contemporary Catholic Morality

*Intimacy of Trinitarian Love

*Situationer

The Gap that exist between faith as

communicated, and everyday life

Consumerism/

materialismPractical atheism

*

*281. Philippine

context: Problem

Separating morality and faith282. One sided catechesis

Moral catechesis that ignores sin and

temptation almost completely while uniquely

on God’s love and human values

*Situationer


*Morality in CFC



*

*288. Integrating approach to Catholic

Morality is developed by combining the

“Traditional moral catechesis” with the

more recent “experiential, personalist

approach.”

*This achieve balance between the two.

*

*Integrating approach to

Catholic Morality

1. The ground level of

fundamental transcendent

human values

2. The level of precepts

and commandments which

protect foster these

values.

3. The level of conscience

applying universal moral norms

to individual acts.

*Morality in CFC

*290. The basic realities of moral life

are best understood by grasping their

essential inter-relations.

Ch. 13 Moral Agent Ch.14 Context Ch. 15 Moral norms

Person Faith and Morality Moral vision

Freedom Kingdom; Church Norms: Scripture/Tradition

Conscience Sin Moral Decision

Moral Attitudes Christian Spiritual Senses Images of God

Trust Radical dependence As Creator

Reasoning and will

strengthened

Gratitude As Provident

Self-criticism and

amendment

Repentance As judge

Accountability Obligation/duty As orderer and sustainer

Ordering acts to moral

ends

Direction and Purpose As final end

*Situationer


*Morality in CFC



*

Helps us to integrate rules with

values, prescription with vision,

individual free choices, with

out fundamental commitments

Exercise major role in learning,

deepening, and exercising our

conscience in applying moral norms

to our concrete acts

Personal moral

vision that

provides the

orientation to all

our moral acts.

Forming images and

symbols that inspire

and motivate our

moral judgments and

evaluation

Learn from practical imagining,

to discern what is the

appropriate Christian course of

action in a given situation

*1.Why should

we do

good?

2. What should

we do good?

3. How?

*Situationer


*Morality in CFC



*

*“Love one another, as I have loved you” Jn 15:12

*The meaning of love for St. John is, “Not our love for God, but

God’s love for us when He sent His Son to be the sacrifice that

takes our sins away.

*We are created in his image and likeness.

*

Situationer

Worship in Catholic faith

Integrations in Worship

Christ our Life: Worship in Spirit

Descriptive Definition

of Ritual Sacraments

Worship and Values

*

*Filipinos are characterized by their religiosity

*Worship: parishes and dioceses, the Eucharist is

celebrated in the vernacular.

*School prayers, Bible Study Groups

*Devotions, Processions

*Problem: Severe Gap with their Worship and

Practical Life

*Good

Liturgical/sacram

ental Catechism

can Help Filipino

Catholics to:

Understand

what they are

doing and what

is really taking

place in the

Liturgy

Assume the proper

attitudes that should

underlie their actions

and gestures in the

Liturgy

Strive to live

according to

what they

believe and

celebrate

Situationer






Worship and Values

*Worship in Catholic

faith

*307. “The Liturgy is the summit…”

*308. Catechesis needs to introduced and

develop authentic Catholic Worship.

*This is necessary to help the Filipino Catholics

to participate more fully, more personally.

*Worship in Catholic

faith

*309. Filipino Catholics feel the need for a more

active, more affective worship.

*Too Formal and Priest-centered.

*“Empty routine rituals”

*Abuses: unbalanced emotionalism (Sects like

pentecostals)

Situationer






Worship and Values

*Integrations in

Worship

*310. Common Ground for Catechesis on

worship: Schools, Parishes.

*7 Sacraments, Sacramentals, and liturgical

seasons.

311. Challenges: Catholic Worship must always

be linked with moral responsibilities.

* Christ our Life: Worship in Spirit

The

Spirit

Gives

life by:

Corporating us to the Church

Vivifying our

Sacramental

life

Prepare us

now (grace)

For life

everlasting

(glory)

Situationer






Worship and Values

*

*312. This grace in Christ has its sources in his

Paschal Mystery.

*Pierced His side: water and blood flows, water-

Spirit and Baptism, Blood-Eucharist

Situationer






Worship and Values

*Descriptive Definition

of Ritual

Sacraments

*315. Rituals: Encounter

with the Risen Christ

*To avoid

misunders

tanding

with the

new

definition

:

First, the insistence on the need of faith in no

way detracts from the objective power of

sacraments

Second, defining sacraments as symbolic acts

means they are more real

“continued in, by and for the Church

Fourth, the role of Christ is his Paschal Mystery and

the empowerment by the Holy Spirit add essential

elements of an adequate understanding of sacrament

Situationer






Worship and Values

*Worship and Values

*319. Regular Sacramental life------Holistic

Change