2nd year MIDTERM

Question 1

It is that attitude, activity, and process by which we, empowered by God’s grace

Answer 1

faith

Question 2

list the 2 importances of religious faith

Answer 2

1. Positive effects on family and relationships.
2. Religious faith help you to personal growth and development

Question 3

Strengths of Filipino Character

list them

Answer 3

-Family- orientation
-Pakikipagkapwa
-Joy and Humor
-Flexibility, Adaptability and
Creativity
-Hard work and Industry
-Faith and Religiosity
-Ability to Survive

Question 4

Weaknesses of Filipino Character

list them

Answer 4

-Extreme Personalism
-Extreme Familism
-Passivity and Lack of Initiative
-Colonial Mentality
-Kanya-kanya Syndrome
-Lack of Self-Reflection and Analysis

Question 5

This is manifested in the tendency to give personal interpretations to actions such as pakiusap, lagay, and areglo, palakasan, nepotism and favoritism

Answer 5

Extreme Personalism

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Extreme Family Centeredness

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Passivity and Lack of Initiative

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Colonial Mentality

Question 9

This is demonstrated in “crab mentality,” “tsismis,” “intriga”
This is also evident in the lack of sense of service in the government bureaucracy

Answer 9

Kanya-Kanya Syndrome

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Lack of Self –Analysis and Self Reflection

Question 11

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

Answer 11

FAMILY-ORIENTED

Question 12

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

Answer 12

MEAL-ORIENTED

Question 13

Filipinos are naturally attracted to heroes sacrificing everything for love. We are patient and forgiving to a fault

Answer 13

KUNDIMAN-ORIENTED

Question 14

We Filipinos are natural hero-followers. For all our patience and tolerance, we will not accept ultimate failure and defeat

Answer 14

BAYANI-ORIENTED

Question 15

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

Answer 15

SPIRIT-ORIENTED

Question 16

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

Answer 16

PUEBLO AMANTE de MAria

Question 17

list the orients of a Filipino

Answer 17

-Family –Oriented
-Meal-Oriented
-Kundiman-Oriented
-Bayani-Oriented
-Spirit-Oriented
-The “Pueblo Amante de Maria”

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

FAMILY-Centered

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Communion centered

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Sacrificing/sanctifying

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Faithfully committed

Question 22

__________ 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

Answer 22

reason

Question 23

It is God’s personal loving communication to us of who He is and His plan to save us all in His love

Answer 23

Revelation

Question 24

those which express and mediate God’s self-communication

Answer 24

Revelatory symbols

Question 25

finite realities and point to a transcendent reality, something imperceptible/invisible.
make Transcendent Reality present and participate in Transcendent Reality

Answer 25

SYMBOLS

Question 26

-creating us, everything we see, hear, touch.
-God’s first manifestation is in creation

Answer 26

Natural Signs

Question 27

Dimensions of Authentic/Mature Faith

Answer 27

Believing/Knowing
Doing
Entrusting

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Believing

Question 29

Faith entails the acceptance of our mission to spread the GNS and render loving service to our neighbor. (cf. James 2:14)

Answer 29

Doing

Question 30

Faith is allowing God to take charge of our lives, trusting that He will not abandon us

Answer 30

Entrusting

Question 31

CHARACTERISTICS OF CHRISTIAN FAITH

Answer 31

Total and Absolute
Trinitarian
Loving, Maturing and Missionary
Informed and Communitarian
Inculturated

Question 32

Paradoxical Characteristics of Faith

Answer 32

1. Certain yet obscure
2. Free yet morally binding
3. Reasonable yet beyond natural reason
4. An act yet a process
5. A gift yet our doing
6. Personal yet ecclesial

Question 33

Living life like God does not exist

Answer 33

Practical Atheism

Question 34

a doctrine that the only or the highest values or objectives lie in material well-being and in the furtherance of material progress

Answer 34

Materialism

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Pragmatism

Question 36

the belief that religion should not play a role in government, education, or other public parts of society

Answer 36

Secularism

Question 37

the belief that pleasure or happiness is the most important goal in life

Answer 37

Hedonism