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The document outlines a lesson plan for a Pastoral Formation course at Saint Joseph College of Sindangan, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of church members. It emphasizes the importance of community, unity in diversity, and equality in dignity within the Church. The course aims to prepare students for service in the Christian community by understanding their duties as evangelizers and servant leaders.

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RS 6 Hand Outs

The document outlines a lesson plan for a Pastoral Formation course at Saint Joseph College of Sindangan, focusing on the roles and responsibilities of church members. It emphasizes the importance of community, unity in diversity, and equality in dignity within the Church. The course aims to prepare students for service in the Christian community by understanding their duties as evangelizers and servant leaders.

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SAINT JOSEPH COLLEGE OF SINDANGAN INCORPORATED

Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines

RS 6 (PASTORAL FORMATION) HAND – OUTS


FOR PRELIM EXAM

Module 1
Lesson Title: PASTORAL FORMATION

I. Learning Target/s: At the end of the lesson, the students CAN:


a. Discuss the important concepts about Pastoral Formation.
b. Realize that they have duties and responsibilities as members of the church.

References:
 Catechism of the Catholic Church. (1994). Manila, Philippines. ECCCE & Word & Life
Publications
 Catechism for Filipino Catholics. (2005). Philippines. ECCCE, Word & Life Publications,
Pastoral Bible Foundation, Claretian Publications, & St. Paul.

Values: Love of God

II. TOPIC/ DISCUSSION

TOPIC: Introduction
- What is this subject all about?
- The word pastoral comes from the Latin word pastoralis which has the Latin word pastor as
its root.
- The Latin word pastor means shepherd.
- That gives us an idea what role do we play in the Church.
- This subject presents the concept that training and formation of Church workers and leaders
are necessary so that there will be more skilled and committed evangelizers and servant
leaders in the Christian communities.
- This aims at preparing the students to render services to the Christian community through
their apostolic work.
- What do you notice in our society today?
- How must we live as Catholic Christians in today’s situation?
- The answer to this question leads us back to the model of the early Christian communities
which, fired by the love of Jesus and inspired by his word and Spirit, gathered toworship, to
pray, to share and to serve.
- That is our model for the task of envisioning a Church that is renewed.

A. THE CHURCH IS A COMMUNION


- We are called as individuals, and each one must give a personal response.
- But Christ calls us to form a Christian community.
- He wants the Church to be a communion of life, love and truth.
- The first disciples expressed this in their own lives.
- They formed a community in which they devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles
and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.
- They even shared the things they owned so that no one among them was in want.

1. Unity in Diversity
- When St. Paul wanted to express the unity of Christians, he compared the group of
believers to a human body and called it the body of Christ.
- In this one body there are different parts.
- Each part is needed by every other part; each needs the others as well.
- Each believer has a role to play in the one body.
- In St. Paul’s description of the Church as the body of Christ we can see this characteristic
of the Church.
- There is unity of the believers, but this unity is a unity in diversity.
- In the Church, there are different giftedness and ministries but there is only one body.
- This diversity does not destroy the unity.
- But it brings out the complementarity and necessary contribution of the different
giftedness and ministries.
- Each of us are called upon to share our own goods according to the gift that each has
received (“With great power comes great responsibility.”; “More is asked to those who
are given more.”)

2. Equality in Dignity (from Latin word “dignus” which means worth)


- Despite being diverse, there is equality in Christian dignity of all the members in the
unity of the Church.
- But this equality in Christian dignity is not against the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
- There is a hierarchy which exercises leadership in the Christian community.
- But this hierarchy is a hierarchy of service, and not of Christian excellence.
- A person is not a better Christian simply because he is a bishop, priest or deacon.
- The Christian dignity of the ordained is measured by the sincerity and genuineness of
their service rather than by the office they hold.
- They are great if they truly serve the Lord and his community.

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