1st session- who am i? & what is the meaning & purpose in life?
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Presented by Martin Jalleh -24th July 2011TRANSCRIPT
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The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)
is the process through which interested adults and
older children are gradually introduced to the
Roman Catholic faith and way of life.
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It is a process through which an individual
inquires and explores Christianity as a way of life
in the Catholic Church.
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Product…ProcessMastery…MysteryInstants…ConstantsRitual…RelationshipReaching…Becoming
Convenience…Commitment
Product…ProcessMastery…MysteryInstants…ConstantsRitual…RelationshipReaching…Becoming
Convenience…Commitment
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"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious
Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and
revelation, so that you may
know Him better."Ephesians 1:17
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Jesus says – “You shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your mind and with all your strength,
this is the first commandment.”Mt. 22: 37-38
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•Adam: Where Adam: Where are you? are you?
• LOST (a) LOST (a) Sheep (b) Coin Sheep (b) Coin (c) Son(c) Son
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•Matthew/Peter/Matthew/Peter/Samaritan WomanSamaritan WomanZachaeusZachaeus
* “You did * “You did not choose not choose
me, me, I chose I chose
you.” you.” (Jn15:16)(Jn15:16)
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Not because of who I am,But because of what
you've done.Not because of what
I've done,But because of
who you are.
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How we define ourselves
•What I do•What I have•What people
think of me
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• The only way we can really see ourselves
is when we see ourselves reflected back to us from the eyes of someone
who truly loves us.
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•But the only one who can reflect back to us the
fullness of our beauty is God,
for we are made in the very image of God.
•This is what we experience when we come to experience God.
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How we are defined by God
• Child
• Beloved
• Made in God’s image and likeness
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How we are defined by God• Child
• Beloved• Made in God’s image and likeness
• St Augustine of Hippo“The glory of God is the person fully alive.”
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There is no deep knowing of God
Apart from knowing of selfAnd no deep knowing
of self,Apart from knowing of God.
John Calvin
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All my existence, my peace, my happiness
depends on this – to discover myself in
discovering God.If I find him I find myselfAnd if I find my true self
I find him.Thomas Merton.
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"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased!“ Matt 3:17
"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased!“ Matt 3:17
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“The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved
from all eternity and held safe in an everlasting embrace...
We must dare to opt consciously for our chosenness and not allow
our emotions, feelings, or passions to seduce us into self-
rejection.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
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“But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually
learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the
beloved and on you my favour rests...
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“I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice
because it is an intimate voice.
It comes from a very deep place.
It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually
hear that voice.
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“We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves
that that voice speaks the truth, our truth.
It tells us who we are. That is where the spiritual life
starts - by claiming the voice that calls us the beloved.” - Henri N.
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Cash
Car
Credit
Card
Career Certificate Condom Cyber Savy Chat Room
Club
Coffee BeanCarat ring
Condo
Cool Clothes
Cell-phone
Chic
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We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers;wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
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We spend more,
but have less;
we buy more, but enjoy
less…
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We have bigger houses,
and smaller families;more conveniences,
but less time.
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We have more degrees, but less sense;more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems;more medicine, but less wellness.
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We have multiplied
our possessions,but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom
and hate too often.
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We have learned how to make a
living, but not how to
live;we have added
years to life,not life to years.
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We have been all the way
to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbour.
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We have conquered outer space,
but not inner space;we have cleaned up
the air,but polluted the soul;
we have split the atom,
but not our prejudice.
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We have higher incomes,
but lower morals;we have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
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These are the times of tall men
and short character;steep profits and
shallow relationships.
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These are the times of more leisure,but less fun;more kinds of food but less nutrition.
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These are the days of two incomes,
but more divorce;of fancier houses but broken homes.
-- Dr Bob Moorehead
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"You who have been freed
from the nightmare of
Communist dictatorship,
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do not let yourselves be deceived by the false
and dangerous dreams
of consumerism. They also destroy the
future." -- Address in Romania,
May 9, 1999
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“…societies where secularism and materialism
have weakened many people's ability to respond to
the Spirit and to discern God's loving call.”
Address to Leaders of CCR, 14 March, 1992
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Pope Benedict, World Youth Day,Australia, 2008
“In so many of our societies, side by side withmaterial prosperity,a spiritual desert is spreading –
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Pope Benedict, World Youth Day,Australia, 2008
an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair."
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"Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.“
"Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.“
Ecclesiastes 1:2
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“God, you have made us for yourself,
and our hearts are restless till they find
their rest in you.”St Augustine
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"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased!“ Matt 3:17
"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased!“ Matt 3:17
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“For in him we live
and move and have
our being.”Acts 17:28
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ST PAUL’S JOURNEYMEANING & PURPOSE“...may (you) be able to
comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the
love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled
up to all the fullness of God.”Eph. 2:18-19
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Almighty God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you: pour your love into our hearts and draw us to yourself,and so bring us at last to your heavenly city where we shall see you face to face; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,who is alive and reigns with you,in the unity of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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