Topic 4 and 5 Flashcards
Reflects and emulates the life and teachings of Christ.
Christian leadership
– First Filipino Martyr. He was a family man living a faithful life in the Philippines. Through an extraordinary set of circumstances, he was called to give his life for Christ.
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
He was born in BINONDO, Manila on November 28, 1594. He was the son of a Chinese father and a Filipino mother who were both devout Catholics.
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz
Who taught Lorenzo to speak Tagalog and his father taught him Chinese. Lorenzo was raised to be a good Catholic who loved God and his faith very much.
Mother
He served happily in his parish church in Binondo as an BLANK and was educated by the Dominican friars for several years.
altar boy
He earned the title BLANK (scrivener or calligrapher) for his beautiful penmanship.
Escribano
READ: As a young man, Lorenzo joined the Dominican Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary and eventually married a woman named Rosario. The couple had three children, two sons and one daughter, and by all accounts, the family was an ordinary, happy family living a faithful but unremarkable life.
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It is defined as a “person who has received Christian baptism or is a believer in Christianity.” A person having “qualities associated those of decency, kindness, and fairness” (Oxford, 2003). Any people who believe in Christ and followed his teachings are called BLANK.
Christian
It is about status competition.
Consumption
no matter how much you may have achieved already, and no matter how old you are. There’s still more God has for you to be and do!
Every person has potential
Word servant is from Latin word SERVIRE means BLANK
Submission of oneself
It is defined as” a person who perform duties for others ,especially person employed in a house domestic duties or as personal attendant’’.
Servant
He first coined the phrase “servant leadership” in his 1970 essay, “The Servant as a Leader.” However, it’s an approach that people have used for centuries.
Robert K. Greenleaf
Are projected in the contemporary leadership like having missions , charitable works through feeding programs, and serving the community like teaching catechisms in public schools without any remuneration purely service for the glory of god.
Servant leaders
This characteristic relates to your ability to “dream great dreams,” so that you look beyond day-to-day realities to the bigger picture.
Conceptualization
The servant-leaders sense that much has been lost as a result of the shift from local communities to large organizations as the primary shapers of human lives . this awareness causes servant-leaders to identify some means for building among those who work with them.
Building Community
READ: Certain to be held accountable for a crime he did not commit Lorenzo sought asylum on a ship with three Dominican friars who were sailing to Okinawa with a Japanese priest. They left on June 10, 1636, and they were hoping to help the growing but persecuted Christian community in Japan as missionaries.
True
At the time of their arrival, Japan was being ruled by the BLANK, a military dictatorship that ruled from 1603 – 1867. He was concerned with political stability and was fearful of foreign ideas.
Tokugawa Shogunate
They were almost immediately arrested and put into prison where they remained for two years. After BLANK years the prisoners were taken to Nagaski to face trial by torture.
Two Years
READ: The four priests, steadfastly refused to recant their faith despite gruesome and painful torture. Missionaries who escaped later reported Lorenzo’s last words,
“Ego Catholicus sum et animo prompto paratoque pro Deo mortem obibo;
Si mille vitas haberem, cunctas ei offerrem.”
(I am a Catholic and wholeheartedly do accept death for God; Had I a thousand lives, all these to Him shall I offer
True
