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• The Perpetualite


  A Lover/Minister of Life
• FCL600


  Course code
• BY: AIRA A. CAYABYAB, LPT


  Author
• TOPICS


  • Meaning and Nature of Stewardship
  • Biblical Basis of Stewardship
  • Principles of Biblical Stewardship
  • The Role of Christian Spirituality
  • Jesus' Spiritual
  • The Fifth Commandment
  • Health and Wellness
  • Theology about the Body
  • Issues and Problems on Human Life
  • The Role of Spirituality in Human Life
  • Laudato Si'
  • The Role of Man in Ecology
  • Special Issues in Ecology
• ISSUES AND PROBLEMS ON HUMAN LIFE

  Human life being sacred should not be dispensed, for every lost life means a loss to his loved ones, an interruption of his earthly existence and all of God's plans that go with it
• Moral issues on human life

  • Murder
  • Death Sentence
  • Abortion
  • Euthanasia
  • Suicide
  • Cloning
  • Artificial Fertilization
• Murder


  Killing is wrong and prohibited. The murderer and those who cooperate voluntarily in murder commit a sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance
• Death Sentence (By Law)

  In the United States, death penalty is usually applied for crimes that is considered horrible, such as murder, but also used in cases of treason and large-scale of drug trafficking
• Death Sentence (By the Catechism of the Catholic Church)


  The Church teaches, considering the Gospel, that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and the dignity of the person
• Abortion


  It is the termination of pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. And is therefore, a form of killing. Even a fetus has the rights of being a person
• Euthanasia


  The practice of ending the life of a person to limit his/her suffering. Thus, mercy killing is not a good death
• Suicide


  It is death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die. It contradicts the natural inclination of the human being to preserve and perpetuate his/her own life
• Cloning


  This refers to the reproduction of a being with the use of DNA taken from another of its kind. It is asexual, a complete departure from the natural origin of life
• Artificial Fertilization


  Babies born from in-vitro (Test tube) fertilization are the results of acts that substitute the God-ordained conjugal act. It should be excluded from the Christian moral order
• THE ROLE OF SPIRITUALITY IN HUMAN LIFE

  Spirituality is originated within Christianity. These was derived from the Greek noun "pneuma" - spirit. A spiritual person is simply someone who lived under the influence of God's spirit
• Evelyn Underhill: 'Human beings are vision-creating beings rather than tool-making animals, driven by goals that are more than the desire for material success, physical or intellectual'
• Christian Spirituality


  It is interpersonal. It is the life of man with God. And Christian life is discipleship or "following Christ"
• Discipleship


  A person who learns
• Two Elements of Christian Discipleship

  • Call to Conversion
  • Actively Follow the Way of Jesus
• Call to Conversion


  Turning away from flawed ways of behaving in response to the call of God
• Mark 1:15: 'The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God has come near; repent and believe in the good news'
• Actively Follow the Way of Jesus


  Involves both a new ways- of life joining in building the Kingdom of God, it is continuing Jesus' mission
• Matthew 4:19: 'Follow me and I will make you fish of people'
• Types of Christian Spirituality

  • Ascetical Type
  • Active Type
  • Prophetic Type
• Ascetical Type


  Prescribes special places for the process of spiritual transformation, such as the wilderness or the monastery. A person who practices this type of Christian Spirituality is in great self-denial and austerities and abstains from worldly comforts and pleasures, especially for religious reasons, for spiritual growth and moral perfection
• Active Type


  Promotes everyday life as the principle context for spiritual path. It emphasizes finding God in the midst of everyday existence and seeks growth through ordinary experiences, activities, commitments including service for others
• Ignatius of Loyola


  A 16th-century Basque noble, soldier, and Catholic reformer and founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), he encourages people to respond to the call of Christ through daily life
• Prophetic Type


  Goes beyond the simple service of other people in the direction of an explicit commitment to social transformational as a spiritual task