The Power of The One

Child
It takes

One Child to divide time.

One Child to scatter the

proud, and lift up the lowly.

One Child to change the

world forever.

One Child to forgive every

wrong thing we have ever
done.
One Child to make others do as
He did.

It takes One Child to make us a

world of One Family.

One Child to make us Believe,

to inspire us to Love,
to make us live with Hope.

One Child to inspire every soul on

earth,
to live a life of commitment.
It takes One Child,
to embolden us to live and die for
our Faith.

It takes One Child,

to hold this World together.
That is the Power of this One
Child.

And His One Life Story is repeated

and mirrored in various ways
in the lives of different

Children of different races

in different circumstances.

Such is the amazing power

of this One Child!
THE POWER OF ONE: THANKING AND
FORGIVING

The Power of this Holy Child empowers us

to Thank God and Forgive our Enemies.

Namrata Nayak is a 10-year-old Dalit from the

village of Sahi Panchayat, near Raikia (district of
Kandhamal, Orissa).
At the outbreak of violence against the Christians,
the little girl's face was disfigured by a bomb
thrown by Hindu extremists. After 45 days in the
hospital, she has healed, and is happy. Namrata
says she's thanking Jesus for giving her life. Just a
fourth-grader, Namrata, told UCA News
she forgives her attackers and wants to be a
preacher to preach Jesus to her enemies, not just
her friends. “It was our enemies who made me
courageous and committed,” she explained.
THE POWER OF ONE: THANKING AND
FORGIVING

Can you be thankful and forgiving, too, like

Namrata, amidst your problems and difficulties in
your young life? Yes, you can! But Only In The
Power Of One.
THE POWER OF ONE: WITNESSING &
SUFFERING
The Power of this Holy Child empowers us to
be Witnesses of Jesus and Suffer and Die for
Him
Islamic soldiers forced James Jeda, a 10 year
old boy and a Christian, to gather wood for a
fire.
The soldiers pressure him to convert to Islam.
When he refuses, he is thrown to the burning
wood he collected and left to die. He narrates,
“They told me I would be released if I became
a Muslim. I told them that was not possible. I
am a Christian. So they threw me on the fire.”
He escapes but the scars remain. A reminder
of his sacrifice.
Rikka, a teenager, goes to Bible Camp. On
the second day, the students are attacked.
One of the attackers secures her hands
behind her back while another holds a piece of
broken glass to her stomach. She's told to
deny Christ. She narrates, “I did not answer
him, so he pressed the glass harder against
me. Do you believe your God can help you? I
said, Yes!” Gripped with fear, she cries
out, “Help me, Lord, I do not want to deny
you!”
 Every day, thousands of Christians are
persecuted, for their faith. In over 40 nations
around the globe our family is assaulted for
their testimony of Jesus Christ. In most
instances, the persecution could have been
averted if they simply denied Christ. But they
didn't. And they won't.

In Sudan, an Islamic army is set on

Jihad, or Holy War. It has systematically
targeted Christians. Most of them, children
and young people, scarred for life, for Jesus.
Bilaal Rajan (born September 7, 1996, in
Toronto, Canada) is a fundraiser, motivational
speaker, author, United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF) Canada’s child ambassador,
and founder of the Making Change
Now organization.

Rajan began fundraising when he was four

years old, selling clementines (oranges) door-
to-door in his neighborhood to raise C$350 in
funds for the victims of the earthquakes in the
Gujarat province of India in 2001.
He later sold handmade plastic plates to raise
$1,200 for HIV/Aids orphans, sold cookie
boxes to raise over $6,000 for the affected
people and children of Hurricane-devastated
Haiti, raised $50,000 for the victims of the
tsunami in south-east Asia, and more than
$50,000 for the World Partnership Walk.

In 2004, Rajan launched the Canada Kids

Earthquake Challenge for the Canadian
National Committee, raising the total funds for
tsunami relief to around $1.8 million. To date,
he has raised over $5 million for various
causes.
Just look at these brave Pakistani Christian
children. This photo was taken right after an
earthquake in Pakistan.

They were in prayer vigil for the victims

despite escalating persecutions vs. Pakistani
Christians. These children were so brave and
joyful, they were not afraid to be killed for their
faith!

Are you ready to face persecution, like James

Jeda of Sudan, and Rikka of Indonesia? Can
you be joyful amidst trials like these children?
Can you still hold out your Light amidst the
darkness of the world? Yes, you can. But Only
In The Power Of One.
Kung kaya nila, kaya mo rin! Kaya natin! Anak
yata tayo ng Diyos!

What is your story so far? Is your story under

the Power of the One Holy Child?
The Social Teachings
of the Church
 Human Experience
• the human cross of an unhappy distinction of
being the most unsafe country in Asia

• unsavory international distinction of having the

most corrupt civil service and the most
inefficient bureaucracy

• economic deprivation

• power is concentrated to a few

 Human Experience
• the cross of cultural underdevelopment

• wrong sense of gratitude

 Simbahan at Kahirapan
•Poverty – the worst problem
•unemployment, unjust justice system

•caused by sinfulness, collective selfishness,

•Church’s concern must be the anxieties and

hardships of the people
•Church accused as the cause of the prevalent
poverty; teaching the people to endure suffering
for heaven awaits them/ opium
•Just like Christ, the Church is called to have
preferential option for the poor.
 Simbahan at Kahirapan
•the faceless poor – mere numbers
•poverty is something that is not chosen but
imposed
•Church must live for the poor and with the poor;
a messenger of HOPE
•separation of the Church and the state

•loving the poor primarily because they too are

human persons.
 PROPOSAL OF CBCP
 a COMMITMENT to the common good
 a COMMITMENT to honesty and integrity in
public service
 a COMMITMENT to the right to property
 CONVERSION from consumerist mentality
 Have a PROFOUND UNDERSTANDING of the
value of human work
 The Role of UST
Hallmarks of UST
COMMITTED to the cause of TRUTH
COMPASSIONATE to the people of God
COMPETENT to proclaim the truth and love of God to
His people

UST Motto
Veritas cum Caritate
Truth with Charity
CHRISTO-CENTRIC APPRAOCH

FAITH
must be translated
into
ACTION
IS THIS A REAL
CHRISTIAN
COMMUNITY?
 THE CHURCH DREAMS
OF INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF
THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE:

ALIVE AND LIFE-GIVING

FREE AND FREEING
RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE
LOVING AND LOVABLE
CARING AND COMMUNITY MINDED
Summary of PCP II

MAKA TAO
MAKA BAYAN
MAKA KALIKASAN
MAKA DIYOS
 The Goal of the Church

“To make all people, Christians or non-

Christians, live in the spirit of charity,
peace, justice and equality and with
respect of the whole creation.”
THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPT
OF SALVATION

Salvation of : the soul

From : sin

Through : God’s grace

For : Eternal life

THE CHRISTIAN CONCEPT
OF SALVATION
Salvation of : the total person
From : slavery, hunger, drought, lack
of land, discrimination,
oppressions, death, etc.
Through : their collective struggle
For : [economic] abundance, grapes,
rain, promised land;
[political] freedom, liberty;
[socio-cultural] children, peace,
security, good relations
The meaning of salvation to
the Israelites
Salvation is concrete and may be
experienced “here and now.”
 of Salvation
“And this is love, not that we love
God but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the expiation for our
sins.”
1 Jn 4:10-
 of Salvation
“The Spirit of he Lord is upon me...He has
anointed me to proclaim good news to
the poor, release to captives, sight to the
blind, liberty to the oppressed and
announce the Lord’s year of mercy.”
-Luke 4:18-19-
THE POOR IN SPIRIT (mapagpakumbabang-loob) –
Those who stand before God in humble gratitude,
making no claims, knowing they owe everything to
God’s goodness.

THOSE WHO MOURN (nangahahapis) - Those who

are moved with compassion for the grief and
suffering of others.
THE MEEK (maaamo)- Those who devote their lives
to the service of the Kingdom without seeking their
own ends. They courageously fight for the rights of
others, but are never self-assertive at slights to
themselves.
THOSE WHO HUNGER AND THIRST FOR
RIGHTEOUSNESS (nangagugutom at nangauuhaw
sa katuwiran)– Those who long and work for the
triumph of goodness.

THE MERCIFUL (mahabagin)- Those who strive to

be righteous, yet not censorious or critical of
those who fail, realizing their own weaknesses.
THE PURE OF HEART (may malinis na puso) – Those
who are single minded and uncompromising in
their loyalty to God and to the things of God.

THE PEACEMAKERS (mapagpayapa) – Those who

take the spirit of reconciliation with them wherever
they go.
Matthew 5:1-12 - BEATITUDES

THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED FO RIGHTEOUSNESS

SAKE (mga pinaguusig dahil sa katuwiran) – Those
whose presence become a rebuke to the evil ways of
others or a threat to their selfish interests.
 Salvation
“…Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the
Gospel of God, and saying, ‘the time is
fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at
hand; repent, and believe in the Gospel.”
-Mark 14-14-
 Christ: The blind receive their sight,
The lame walk,
Lepers are cleansed
The deaf hear,
The poor have the good news preached to
them.

Salvation was the total giving of himself, of his

whole being, to the liberation of people from
all oppressions.
 EVANGELII NUNTIANDI
Salvation is “liberation from everything that
oppresses human beings; but specially
liberation from sin and the evil one; in the
joy of knowing God and being known by
Him. …This liberation in the framework of
the Church’s specific mission, cannot be
contained in the simple and restricted
dimension of economics, politics, social or
cultural life; it must envisage the whole man,
in all his aspects, right up to and including
the openness to the absolute, even the
divine absolute.”
 Social Sin
Sins in the form of sinful structures or
institutions of the society or situation that
promote sinful attitudes or behavior and
the complicity of persons in the evils of
society by activity or passively
participating in these evils.
 Social Sin
Sins in the form of sinful structures or
institutions of the society or situation that
promote sinful attitudes or behavior and
the complicity of persons in the evils of
society by activity or passively
participating in these evils.
Sinful structures

“ There are sinful social structures when

there is habitual pattern of human
interactions, infected by sin, selfishness,
injustice, pride, greed. They perpetuate
disvalues. They are inducements to sin and
are formidable obstacle to Christian living.”
-PCP II #82-

Sinful situations

They lead people to become greedy and

selfish.
Sinful attitudes

Attitudes of people who allow or directly

participate in the evil that is being done
against others.

It also involves the sin of omission, i.e., the

inaction of some people to prevent evil from
taking place.
 “What is the cause of
poverty?”

The root problem is the “gross unequal

distribution of wealth.” Some people
have more than they need while the
rest do not even the basic necessities of
life.
 You are not making a gift of your
possessions to the poor person. You are
handing over to him what is his. For
what has been given in common for the
use of all, you have arrogated to
yourself. The world is given to all, and
not only to the rich.
PP# 23
 One of the greatest injustice of the
contemporary world consists precisely
in this: that the ones who possess much
are relatively few and those who
possess almost nothing are many. It is
the injustice of the poor distribution of
the goods and services originally
intended for all.
SRS # 23
What is the mission of the Church?

To continue the liberating mission

of Christ
What is the mission of the Church today?

Mission of Jesus Christ

Mission of the Church

(Kingly) (Priestly) (Prophetic)

Service for: Prayer/worship for: Proclamation of:
Development Deeper Peace
Integral human Relationship - founded on truth
development with God - built according to justice
- practiced in freedom
What is the mission of the Church
today?

Indeed, the social

mission of the Church is
founded on the ministry
and mission of Christ.
What is the mission of the Church
today?
This mission gives the Church the
duty and authority to teach and
interpret the message of the Gospel
to the present context and thereby
guide and assist all people in the
pursuit of their total salvation.
 AS CHRISTIANS, WE SHOULD ALWAYS
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF CHRIST AND
STAND FOR WHAT IS TRUE AND JUST.
WE CANNOT MAKE A CHOICE. WE CAN
NOT BE NEUTRAL. THE EXPRESSION OF
OUR FAITH SHOULD ALWAYS BE
PREFERENTIAL, NEVER NEUTRAL.

And this faith can only be expressed and

must be expressed through our social,
economic, political and cultural
involvement here and now.
 Four-step cycle of Christian praxis

1. Experience

4. Planning / PRAYER 2. Social analysis

action

3. Theological reflection
E
L
E Luke 5:1-11
M
E
N
T
A new and deeper
S understanding

O
F Realization
of
C one’s sinfulness
O
N
V
E
R
S A radical response
I
O
N
 PCP II #275

This conversion and social

transformation is not just one
moment of definitive change. It
is a lifelong task, striving from
the less perfect to the ever
more perfect, from death to life,
from life to ever fuller life.
 Sources of Hope

the unwavering faith of the

Filipino people
 Sources of Hope

the increasing social awareness

and concern for social change
and development
 Sources of Hope

the commonalities that exist

among different cultures
 STEP II: Social Analysis
(A Tool for Social Transformation)

Social analysis is the effort to

fully understand a particular
social situation. It serves as a tool
that permits us to grasp the
reality with which we are dealing.
 Octagesima Adveniens
(Call to Action)
It is up to Christian communities to
analyze with objectivity the situation
which is proper to their own country, to
shed in it the light of the Gospel ’ s
unalterable words and to draw principles
or reflection, norms of judgment, and
directives of action from the social
teaching of the Church. (O.A. #4)
 PCP II (Art. 22 #1)

A thorough social analysis, structural

and cultural, is to be promoted more
intensely in the process of building up
discerning communities of faith,
precisely to the end that their efforts at
social transformation take into account
hard social realities and carried through
from a genuine perspective of faith.
 Social Analysis

Objective Dimension Subjective Dimension

consciousness,
various organizations
values, ideologies,
and
attitudes of the
institutions
members of society
 Social Analysis

Historical Analysis Structural Analysis

It is a study of the It is a study of what is

changes of a social happening to a
system through time. particular structure.
 Limitations of Social Analysis
It is not designed to provide an immediate
1 answer to the question, “What do we do?”
It is not a guideline that gives us a step by
step solution to the problem.

2 It is simply like a diagnosis to a sickness

than the treatment. It does not provide a
cure.
STEP III: Fruits of Theological Reflection

What does my faith tell me to do

As a member of the Church, what am I

supposed to do

What is my mission

What does the Church magisterium

say about the issue
1. The Nature and Development of the
Church’s Social Teaching
STC is the entire teaching of the
ecclesiastical magisterium that applies
revealed truth and Christian moral
principles to the social order. It applies
the Gospel message to social reality.
The purpose of the Church’s social
teaching is to present to all human
beings God’s plan for secular reality.