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God Created all things, (world and the human persons).

They were in “paradise” which means, there was


harmony, justice, peace, and joy. Despite the very good conditions of life that they were in, the first human
beings (“Adam” and “Eve”) still committed sin.

Activating
Comprehension Skills

Instruction: Carefully look


at the illustration above and try to interpret it by answering the following questions below.

Please answer this activity on the assessment area (Prelim Learning Assessment).

Who is the ultimate source of the Mission? ________________________

What was the Mission all about?


__________________________________________________________________________

What human action causes the Ultimate Source to go for such a mission? __________________

Who were the people whom the Ultimate source called to work for the mission? (Three titles)
__________________, ____________________, _______________________

To whom was the Mission being passed to by the Ultimate source? ____________________

Who is now spreading the Mission? / Who is now working for the Mission? ______________________

Who is guiding/accompanying the one working for the mission? ______________________

What trait/characteristic of God is being portrayed in the illustration? ______________________

Where did the/our Church originate? _____________________

“Where” is the Church heading to? ______________________

Brief Historical Background of the Church


Sacrament: means channel, representative, visible sign of an invisible reality.

God ------------------> Jesus ------------------> Church

The Sacrament of God is Jesus and the Sacrament of Jesus is the Church (John 20:21, Acts 1:8)

The Church started as a religious renewal “movement”/group in Jerusalem, Israel by no other than Jesus
Christ. Jesus grounded the Church on the foundation of the Apostles and it spread from Jerusalem to the
Roman Empire world until throughout all the earth.

The first “name” of the Church was The Way (Acts 9:2), The members of the Church were called Christians
in Antioch (Acts 11: 26). The Church was persecuted by the Roman Empire (which was still pagan) until the
Conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 313 AD which paved the way for Christians to infiltrate Rome until
Christianity was declared as the official religion of the Roman Empire in 380 AD by Emperor Theodosius.

Way back in 45 AD, the first apostle who went to Rome and started the Church there was no other than
Peter. Later, reflecting on the mission of Jesus which He passed on to the Church, the Church’s official
“name” or title evolved into: One (John 17:21), Holy (Ephesians 1:4, 5:27, I Peter 2:9), Catholic (Matthew 28:
18-20, Acts 1:8, Gen 12: 3, John 3: 16-17) and Apostolic (Ephesians 2:20 )

From the Church developed the Hierarchy (Bishops, priests, and deacons – with the Pope as the
overall head for the sake of division of work and maintaining the unity of the Church while it spreads the
Kingdom of God on earth.

From the Church comes the different “kinds” of priests according to spirituality or mission area.

a. Diocesan is a term use for priests serving their local places;

b. Monks: started in the 3rd century AD in Egypt and in Syria with a life of simplicity or asceticism.

Monks who are composed of sisters (not priests) only came out later. Example of few monks in Cagayan
who are sisters are those at the St. Claire monastery in Iguig.

c. Missionaries are group/community of priests who really want to go to serve remote places not
yet evangelize.

Examples of missionaries are the following:

c.1. The Dominicans who was founded by St. Dominic in Prouille, France in 1216. (Dominic was a
Spanish priest).

c.2. The Augustinians which started in 1244 in Italy (group or no specific founder).

c.3. The Jesuits or called Society of Jesus who was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola,
formerly a Spanish soldier who became priest.

c.4. The CICM and other missionary groups only came out later.

The CICM was founded by the diocesan priest Theophile Verbist in 1862 in Scheut,
Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium.

Background of the CICM Congregation


So what is a CICM? It is just one of the missionary groups which is an arm of the Church for
evangelization.

One of the many strategies for missionaries to evangelize people especially the youth to prepare
them to become also evangelizers in their own ways in the future is to establish schools. With this,
obviously, in the missionary schools and even schools established by the local Church, the core of the
curriculum is the Christian Faith Education of the young (children to college). In a wider sense, the Christian
formation of the Community who are running the school. The CICM established schools for such purpose.
Here at the University of Saint Louis, our motto for us to always remember this is “Mission and Excellence”
and among the core values of our University’s Vision – Mission, the first is Christian Living.

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