Man's Call To Salvation

"Facing the Concerns of Today and the Challenges of the Future"

The Tertio Millennio Adveniente (TMA) is a program launched by Pope John Paul II to celebrate 2000 years of Christianity. Consisting of a three-year Jubilee which starts in 1997 until 1999 towards the Great Jubilee 2000, its primary objective is the strengthening of faith and of the witness of Christians. For Great Jubilee 2000, the Holy Father has worked out a program of preparation which he calls the "new Advent." He asks us, the faith ful, to spend the new Advent in intense prayer and in solidarity with our neighbor, especially the needy.

In response to the call of his Holiness, a Philippine program has been drawn up. Called A Filipino Vision for the Third Milleneum, the program joins the TMA themes of the Holy Father with some acts and decrees of the Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) to make the observance of TMA relevant to our own national needs

As Sister Teresa (later Mother Teresa) wended her way to the train station that would take her to the retreat house in Darjeeling, India, she walked past thousands of outcasts preparing to spend the night on the stairways, hallways and streets of Calcutta. These Indian outcasts were scattered throughout the city in a repulsive atmosphere generated by dampness, buzzing flies, garbage, vermin, and body waste.

Sister Teresa slept very little during the overnight journey. Pictures of the poor and the suffering kept running through her mind. She was so greatly disturbed by what she had seen that there and then, she resolved to leave the Convent and devote herself exclusively to the poor. That was in September 10, 1946.

After receiving of the Archbishop and her religious superior, Sister Teresa studied basic health care. After three months, she returned to Calcutta where she immediatly went to work with soap and water washing one hut after another and feeding and caring for the children in each household. As she moved throught the streets, countless people cried out to her, asking for food.

The example of Sister Teresa attracted other young women who were also concerned for the poor. With their assistance and the financial support of many generous citizens, Mother Teresa founded schools, orphanages, a center for lepers, medical dispensaries and many other institutions for the poor.

As a child, Sofronio Roxas was inquisitive and intelligent but he had no chance to finish schooling. Despite his lack formal education, he was so keen in his observation and his sense of justice that he always stood for what he considered right. His spiritually was so deep, he consented to be the Social Action Coordinator for Kidapawan Diocese. His work sought to renew the Church's concrete responses to the need of the people. He worked to uplift the living conditions of the people and build Basic Christian Communities. Steeped in the traditional Philippine values of respect for authority, respect for property and for the rights of others, he tried to live out his convictions in the service of others.

Suspected to be an NPA member, he was placed under surveillance and harassed. Although he knew that his life was in danger, he was firm and ready to seek justice for the people in his community. But he was convinced in loving confrontation.

Through his statement, Jesus offers valuable guidance on how we can have full participation in the Christian life. Jesus tells the young man that he should love his neighbor as he loves himself. Thus, Jesus identifies love for all people as an important aspect of Christian living.

Jesus also invites the young man to experience voluntary, material poverty by selling all his property. This is not an invitation to reject material goods but an encouragement to think of material things as having very little importance when seen in the light of eternal light of eternal life.

Jesus concludes by urging the young man to follow him, that is, to join him in offering worship to the Father, in carrying on his mission, and in receiving a share of God's life.

All Christians are asked to imitate Jesus so that they can achieve total union with God.

Bend or Bump

A British pastor mentioned seeing this warning over an unusually low doorway of a church:

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The height of this door is somewhat less than the average height of the human person; if, therefore, you are up to average or above the height, be especially careful how you approach and pass through, lest an accident ensue.
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Beneath the warning, someone had placed a summary: BEND OR BUMP!

Selfish pride hurt us and prevents us from enjoying the blessing of God. The Apostle Peter urged, "Therefore, humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet 5:6)." God rewards humility and judges pride.

As you go through life, bend and you'll avoid a bump.

A holy fear came over them all and they praised God saying," A great prophet has appeared among us; God has visited His people."

And throughout Judea and the surrounding lands, people talked about Jesus' deeds. The disciples of John gave Him all this news.

So John called two of the disciples and sent them to the Lord with this message: "Are you the one we are expecting, or should we wait for another?"

These men came to Jesus and said, "John the Baptist sent us to ask you: Are you the one we expect or should we wait for another?"

At that time, Jesus was healing many people of their sicknesses or diseases, and freeing them from evil spirits. He was also giving sight to the blind. He answered the messegers, "Go back and tell John what you saw and heard: the blind see again, the lame walk, lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life and the poor are given the Good News. Now, listen: Fortunate are those who encounter Me and find no stumbling block in Me."

This is the Sacrament that makes people of God His co-creators or nurturers of life. This sacrament, "the marriage covenant, by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of their being of the spouses and to the procreation and upbringing of children, has, between the baptized, been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament."

This sacrament also reveals God's fidelity to His covenant of love, for, in marriage, there are two essential properties, distinctively made firm and strong, namely: unity and indissolubility.

In order to shepherds the People of God and to increase its number without cease, Christ the Lord set up in His Church a variety of offices which aim at the good of the whole body. The holders of office who are invested with a sacred power, are, in fact, dedicated to promoting the interests of their brethren.

Born' of a wealthy family in northern Italy In 1538, Charles had opened his heart on the service of the Lord in his youthful years, so that at the tender age of twenty-two he was summoned to Rome by Pope Pius IV who made him a Cardinal, and soon after, Archbishop of Milan.

Among Charles' blessings were being a good teacher and writer. He established schools for the poor,seminaries for the clerics, and trained priests of the oblates community to holiness of life.

His great concern for the poor and the sick made him build hospitals where he personally ministered to them. During a great plague he faithfully attended to the sick and the dying. He was said to have tried feeding some 60,000 poor people every day.

Charles also did penance. He was often seen taking part in public processions with a rope around his neck as a gesture of penance. He deprived himself of all earthly belongings and wore an old patched cloak.

In the year 1584, Charles died at the age of 46 and was canonized a saint in 1610. St. Charles Borromeo is a model of Christian virtue and concern for others.

St. Ignatius was born in 1491 of a noble family, in the castle of Loyola in Guipuscoa, Spain. He entered the army and distinguished himself by his bravery. His personal conversion started when he lay ill in a castle after the siege of Pamplona where he got seriously wounded. While recuperating in bed, he read Flowers of the Saints and The Life of Christ. The reading of these two books created in him the desire to follow the footsteps of the saints and become a knight of Christ. When he got fully recovered, he went to confession and for almost a year, he lived in a cave on the banks of a river. His renewed life consisted of fasting, praying, and taking care of the poor and the sick.

Finally, he entered a school in Barcelona, Spain. He continued serving the Lord after being ordained a priest when he founded the Society of Jesus in Paris. Teaching in schools, preaching, conducting retreats, and doing missionary work made up the bulk of involvement he and the priests in his congregation became devoted to. Many of his men trained to be missionaries, some even teaching the Indians in America.

Ignatius directed the work of the Society for fifteen years. He died at the age of sixty-five. The priests who belong to the religious order of the Society of Jesus are called Jesuits.

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The Way of the Cross is a traditional practice of meditating devoutly on the suffering, death and Resurrection of Jesus, particularly the suffering He endured on His way to His Crucifixion. The wide-spread devotion is usually practiced on Friday, during spiritual retreats, and most especially, during Lent.

Historical Background. In the early centuries of Christianity, the faithful marked with a cross and a picture each place along the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) where Jesus experienced the most significant occurrences as He staggered along the way to Calvary. Those places called stations. The pilgrims who went to Jerusalem would stop at each station in prayerful meditation.

As Christianity grew and spread, many of the faithful found it difficult to go to Jerusalem. So, they were encouraged to make the Way of the Cross in their own communities by reflecting and praying at the stations of the Via Dolorosa represented by either a painting or a statue.

Over the centuries, the number and sequence of the stations varied from eleven to thirty-seven. In 1731, Pope Clement XII fixed the number of stations at fourteen, arranged in the order familiar to us, i.e.:

1. Jesus is condemned to death
2. Jesus accepts the cross
3. Jesus falls the first time
4. Jesus meets His mother
5. Simon takes the cross from Jesus
6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
7. Jesus falls the second time
8. Jesus meets the women
9. Jesus falls the third time
10. Jesus is stripped of His clothes
11. Jesus is nailed to the cross
12. Jesus dies on the cross
13. Jesus is taken down from the cross
14. Jesus is buried
    

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When all my hope seems to be gone, I shall not give up for I
know there is hope in Christ.When everything in my life seems dark and bleak, I shall not
give up for I shall embrace the hope of all humanity, the hope that rests in the
Light and Love of Christ my Savior. When I see others who have no hope, I shall reach out to
them and give them the same hope in love Christ has given me.