2nd year MIDTERM Flashcards
It is that attitude, activity, and process by which we, empowered by God’s grace
faith
list the 2 importances of religious faith
- Positive effects on family and relationships.
- Religious faith help you to personal growth and development
Strengths of Filipino Character
list them
-Family- orientation
-Pakikipagkapwa
-Joy and Humor
-Flexibility, Adaptability and
Creativity
-Hard work and Industry
-Faith and Religiosity
-Ability to Survive
Weaknesses of Filipino Character
list them
-Extreme Personalism
-Extreme Familism
-Passivity and Lack of Initiative
-Colonial Mentality
-Kanya-kanya Syndrome
-Lack of Self-Reflection and Analysis
This is manifested in the tendency to give personal interpretations to actions such as pakiusap, lagay, and areglo, palakasan, nepotism and favoritism
Extreme Personalism
Excessive concern for the family manifests itself in the use of one’s office and power as a means of promoting the interest of the family, in factionalism, patronage, and political dynasties, and in protection of concern for the common good and acts as a block to national consciousness
Extreme Family Centeredness
Filipinos have a strong need for authority figure and feel safer and more secure in the presence of such an authority.
There is a high tolerance to inefficiency, poor service and even violations of one’s basic rights.
Passivity and Lack of Initiative
This mentality is made up of two dimensions: a lack of patriotism and actual preference for things foreign.
This results to cultural vagueness or weakness that makes Filipinos extraordinarily susceptible to western culture
Colonial Mentality
This is demonstrated in “crab mentality,” “tsismis,” “intriga”
This is also evident in the lack of sense of service in the government bureaucracy
Kanya-Kanya Syndrome
There is a tendency of Filipinos to be superficial and even in somewhat flighty.
There is emphasis on form (porma).
This is reinforced by an educational system that is more form than substance and a legal system that ends to substitute law of reality
Lack of Self –Analysis and Self Reflection
Ama, ina, and anak are culturally and emotionally significant to us Filipinos who cherish our filial attachment not only to our immediate family, but also to our extended family
FAMILY-ORIENTED
Serving our guests with the best we have is an inborn value to Filipinos, rich and poor alike. We love to celebrate any and all events with a special meal. Even with unexpected guests, we Filipinos try our best to offer something
MEAL-ORIENTED
Filipinos are naturally attracted to heroes sacrificing everything for love. We are patient and forgiving to a fault
KUNDIMAN-ORIENTED
We Filipinos are natural hero-followers. For all our patience and tolerance, we will not accept ultimate failure and defeat
BAYANI-ORIENTED
We are often said to be naturally psychic. We have a deep-seated belief in the supernatural and in all kinds of spirits dwelling in individual persons, places and things
SPIRIT-ORIENTED
a people in love with Mary. Even before the coming of the Spanish missionaries, there was a small dark image of the Blessed Virgin, known only as coming “from the sea,” venerated on the shores of Manila Bay
PUEBLO AMANTE de MAria
list the orients of a Filipino
-Family –Oriented
-Meal-Oriented
-Kundiman-Oriented
-Bayani-Oriented
-Spirit-Oriented
-The “Pueblo Amante de Maria”
Filipinos who can easily talk to God the Father through His only begotten Son-made-man, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Our devotion to the Sto. Niño and the Mahal na Birhen reveals fundamental depths of our own self-identity.
FAMILY-Centered
Around the table of the Lord (the Eucharist),” we Filipino Catholics are drawn by prayer to share our time, energy and very lives, for the service of our needy brethren and for the building-up of truly Christian communities of justice, love and healing
Communion centered
as Filipino Catholics, because we have met Christ the Suffering Servant in his Passion, we can pray about sin and forgiveness, about justice and reconciliation, about the suffering and Passion of our own Filipino people today
Sacrificing/sanctifying
we Catholic Filipinos, resilient as the bamboo (kawayan) and sturdy as the narra, commit ourselves to Christ, our hero-king, in deep gratitude for the gift of faith and for being Filipino
Faithfully committed
__________ tells us that the world did not always exist but must have had a beginning. It could not have made itself. An almighty Creator must have called it into being by some means
reason
It is God’s personal loving communication to us of who He is and His plan to save us all in His love
Revelation
those which express and mediate God’s self-communication
Revelatory symbols
finite realities and point to a transcendent reality, something imperceptible/invisible.
make Transcendent Reality present and participate in Transcendent Reality
SYMBOLS
-creating us, everything we see, hear, touch.
-God’s first manifestation is in creation
Natural Signs
Dimensions of Authentic/Mature Faith
Believing/Knowing
Doing
Entrusting
Faith involves knowing Jesus and the truth He teaches.
It involves “assenting to, meditating on, and living out the truths which Christ has exemplified and taught.” (NCDP 147)
It requires us to deepen our knowledge of Him and His teachings
Believing
Faith entails the acceptance of our mission to spread the GNS and render loving service to our neighbor. (cf. James 2:14)
Doing
Faith is allowing God to take charge of our lives, trusting that He will not abandon us
Entrusting
CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH
Total and Absolute
Trinitarian
Loving, Maturing and Missionary
Informed and Communitarian
Inculturated
Paradoxical Characteristics of Faith
- Certain yet obscure
- Free yet morally binding
- Reasonable yet beyond natural reason
- An act yet a process
- A gift yet our doing
- Personal yet ecclesial
Living life like God does not exist
Practical Atheism
a doctrine that the only or the highest values or objectives lie in material well-being and in the furtherance of material progress
Materialism
a reasonable and logical way of doing things or of thinking about problems that is based on dealing with specific situations instead of on ideas and theories
Pragmatism
the belief that religion should not play a role in government, education, or other public parts of society
Secularism
the belief that pleasure or happiness is the most important goal in life
Hedonism
