L13-Mission through religious life Flashcards
Who are the religous ?
- Each Christian is called o respond to God thorugh the rich and full life in Christ .
- Religious are those who respond to such a call in a speial way .
what is Egypt
the cralde of Christian religious life.
Who started Ashrams in Italy , France nad I reland
Sint Benedict , STmartin of tOURS, AND ST PATRICK
When did Christianity come into India
when Reb fr thomas palckal , thoham porukara and Kuriakose Elias nd Chavra togetehr instituted the religious congreation as
CARMELITES OF MARY IMMACULATE. aka the first native religous congreation in India for women .FOUNDED BY ST KURIAkose ElIas CHAVra
wat is the essence of religious life ?
part of the life , holiness and mission of the church .
- It is a life-style where the religious dedicae themselves pemannelty for God nd their fellow eings .
- On the basis of evangelical counsels the religous lie three vows OF OBEDIENCE , CHASTITY AND POVERTY . -they becoem totaly dedicated ot God and therefore dedicated to servic nd glory .
- This dedication points rto the undivded relationJesus has with the churhc .
What is a vow ?
- A vow is the covenant of love which a person offers to God and hich God receives thorugh the church . Through the vows the three yhhose , he relgious dedicate thesmleevs to love of God and mn .
- A vow itself is only a means not an end .
What is te fundamental rule of religous life ?
- To imitate the Jesus of th Gospel .
- Then they become one with God thoeuh the evangelcal counsels .
- AIM ODF RELIGOUS LIFE IS UNIION WITH GOD so relgious should try constnatly for holiness and union with God . l
missoanry task of relgious life
- misisoanry activity is a life of love , giving one’s on self .
- Church needs people who can dedicate themselves totally fothe love of od . These people need to spend their lives giving others hope .
What are the main apostolic fields of the religious ?
- Apostolate of prayer .
- Parish apostolate
- Apostolate of Catechism
- Family apostolate
- Social service
- Missioanry activity
Wat is apostoalte of prayer ?
- All religious should be united with God in praer .
- They must enhoy Gods company in a very deep way , this willc ause them to be strengthened ,
- a religous who DOES NOT have a deep God-experience in prayer an dmediittion will have VERY LITTLE spiritual influence and usccess in missioanry activites .
Who are the relgious obliged to pray for ?
- The religous are obliged to pray for the whole world .
- Praying for the converison of sinner s, healing sick world peace …
What is parsih apostolate ?
- Religous houses are on the boundary of parish .
- THe paris priest enages in various development acivities using thier creaive power .
- The religious re also active along with the Parish priest to build up and strengthen the family units - using their gifts and talnets to build a firm faith .
- Re;ogpis ;ead those who are indarkness onto right path ?
What is Apostolate of Catehcims ?
- We use Caechism calsses as means to give fundamnetal principles of Christian faith and the teachings of the crhuch o children so they recive clarty and life to faith .
- aims to teach to worhsip in spirriti and turth and fully participarte in holy ms .
- this prepares youngsters to dedicate themselves to the growth of the church by raching them t o show love and loyalty to church .
what are family apostoalte
- individuals and families are the bais of society .
- Inf amilies lfie is welcomed .
- rehabilate borken families thorugh dmil apostolate .
-relgious pay attnetion to deepen the faith of the young and elderly , visiting their hosue when they are on the erge of danger , by doing this the religous share the compassiono f Jesus shaingtheir pain and sufferin .
Wat is social service
-The relgious phelp the usffering and exploited .
-They plan various ocial welfare programmes an dtry to improve stheir soica economoci and spiritual stnadard nd try to lead them to self-suffiecny .
-Hhelping those hwo are addiced ot substances and also proviidng those ith basic neds food shelter
and education .
