CL Module 1.1 and 1.2

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  • values distinguish one person from another
  • we discover and rediscover values in life
  • FSC contexts, we consequently embrace as our personal standards and ultimately determine our way of life.
  • 1st Issue: The Clash between Teenager’s Independence and Parents’ Overprotection (Family Context)
  • Social Analysis
    • adolescents want to distinguish themselves
  • 2nd Issue: The Clash between Social Conventions and Personal Convictions (Community Context)
  • Social Analysis
    • Kohlberg's Conventional Stage of Moral Development, a person might be strongly conditioned to act or do things by the group's standards to satisfy the need to fit in.
  • 3rd Issue: The Clash between Lasallian Standards and Other Schools’ Standards (School Context) 
  • THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION
    • Family: Cradle of Human Values
    • school: Inculcator of Human Values
    • Community: Promoter of Human Values
  • Family: Cradle of Human Values
    • family is the original cell of social life
    • the family is “the primary place of ‘humanization' for the person and society” and the “cradle of life and love.”
  • core values: Spirit of Faith, Zeal for Service, and Communion in Mission
  • Religion: Religious beliefs significantly influence a man's identity, as they dictate their life approach and provide a sense of purpose beyond material happiness.
  • Friends: As a social being, a man can't isolate himself from the world and live completely alone.
  • Media: Technology and creativity have led to numerous ways to express oneself. Every community is called to be an instrument of liberation and promotion of the poor.
  • Nation: A nation is identified by the social values it upholds. By social values, we mean the value philosophy of a nation that provides the general guidelines for the behavior of the citizens.
  • Contributed to value formation of St. John Baptist De La Salle:
    • Adrien Nyel
    • Nicholas Roland and Sister Louise
    • His Fellow Seminarians
    • His Childhood Friends
  • Adrien Nyel who invited him to establish gratuitous schools prepared our Founder to be the main frontliner of the Lasallian mission. This made him a good, service-oriented, and pro-poor leader.
  • Nicholas Roland and Sister Louise, his spiritual guides, advised him to bring to prayers his worries in life. This increased his prayerfulness.
  • His fellow seminarians collaborated with him in organizing sports for the abandoned children of the city. Once the games ended, they would bring the boys into the parish church and teach them their catechism.
  • His childhood friends, the children of the workers in their vineyard, exposed him to their poor plight which led him to appreciate simple things in life.
  • Menelaos Apostolou and Despoina Keramari (2020), a friendship evolved in small communities of 100 or fewer. Social forces were more critical for group survival in hunter-gatherer times.
  • Cooperation and collaboration is needed in friendship.
  • Loneliness is a growing problem
  • Six Factors That Block Friendship:
    1. Introversion
    2. Fear of rejection
    3. Pragmatic reasons (disability)
    4. Low trust
    5. Lack of time
    6. Too picky
  • Friendship existed even before the time of Christ
  • Aristotle, a well-known philosopher, beautifully describes a friend as a “single soul in two bodies.”
  • friendships of utility, which are based on the potential benefits
  • friendships of pleasure, where straightforward enjoyment comes from the friendship
  • friendships of virtue, in which the friends share a desire for virtue and do good deeds for one another, guiding them along the path of virtue. The final friendship comes the closest to what Christians would consider the ideal.
  • 3 TYPES OF FRIENDSHIP:
    • Friend of utility
    • Friend of Pleasure
    • Friendships of Virtue
  • Friendship is a reflection and result of God’s inexhaustible outpouring.
  • Friendship with God is the basis of harmony with the self and harmony with creation
  • Friendship with God as the protological and eschatological human state
  • Interpersonal friendship as the blossoming of charity, leading to spiritual communion.
  • Friendships of Characters in the bible
    • David and Jonathan
    • Ruth and Naomi
    • Jesus and His disciples
  • Stages of Ministry Mentor Mentee/Apprentice
    1. I do - you watch
    2. I do - you help
    3. You do - I help
    4. You do - I watch
    5. You do - others watch
  • The term “friendship” is often used as a defining characteristic of the Christian fellowship depicted in Acts 4:32-35.