CFED-Name

• Name


  A crucial way of understanding not just the world around us, but each other
• Surname

  Roots us in history and family tradition
• First name


  Establishes more particular identity and personality
• The Bible is full of names, and those names are full of meaning
• Proverbs 22:1: '"A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold."'
• The Birth of John the Baptist

  1. Elizabeth gave birth to a son

  2. They would have named him Zechariah after his father

  3. But his mother said "Not so; he shall be called John"

  4. They made signs to his father, who wrote "His name is John"

  5. Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied that John will be called the prophet of the Most High
• Names in the Bible can signify origin
• Sacred Scriptures present examples of the inherent connection between name and mission
• The Birth of Jesus Foretold

  1. The angel Gabriel was sent to Mary

  2. The angel said "You will conceive and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus"

  3. Jesus will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High
• Names in the Old Testament

  • Nothing existed until it had a name, expressing its character
  • Many names contain "El" or "Yah" - Hebrew words for God
  • Names were meant to honor God and ensure God was part of the child's life
• Name change


  Can signify a new identity, as seen in the Bible with Abram/Abraham, Sarai/Sarah, Jacob/Israel, Simon/Peter
• Names have great symbolic import in Scripture
• As name trends shift, so do our common ideas of what aspects of a person each name represents
• Abram


  High father
• Abraham


  Father of multitudes
• God promised Abraham many descendants


  God changed Abram's name to Abraham
• Jacob stole the inherited rights from his older brother Esau


  Jacob's name changed to Israel (he strives with God or "power in God")
• Israel


  He strives with God or "power in God"
• Jacob became a changed man

  His name was changed to Israel
• Peter


  Based on the Greek word for rock
• Jesus gave Simon the name Peter


  To emphasize that he would be a steadfast upholder of his teachings
• As name trends change, so do our common ideas of what aspects of a person each name represents
• Your name is a crucial factor in developing your sense of self, and thus helps propel you forward on various paths of life and career
• All Congregations are marked by their own charisma, which may be as similar and yet as individualized as two fingerprints
• The Vatican reminded religious institutes to hold on to the charisma of their founder, lest something of the beauty and variety of the religious life in the Church be lost
• There is something of the fingerprint of the Founder that continues to give CICM its own face, and its own contribution to the Church
• Congregatio Immaculati Cordis Mariae

  Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
• Kongregasyon (Kapatiran)ng Kalinislinisang Puso ni Maria

  Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (in Tagalog)
• Father Theophile Verbist was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1823
• Father Theophile Verbist had ambitions to become a priest ever since he was a boy
• While his twin brother looked towards becoming a lawyer, Father Theophile Verbist headed into a priestly vocation
• After his ordination, Father Theophile Verbist was a prefect in the minor seminary in Malines, a chaplain at the Belgian Military Academy, and a diocesan priest in the archdiocese of Malines-Brussels
• Father Theophile Verbist's first serious thoughts of being a missionary came when he was already 37 years old
• Inspired by the work of the Holy Childhood Association, Father Theophile Verbist felt that he, too, should do something more for the poor and needy in China
• Cardinal Engelbert Sterckx, Archbishop of Malines and Cardinal Alessandro Barnabo, Prefect of the Propagation of the Faith directed Father Theophile Verbist to establish a kind of a congregation, along the lines of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith
• After strenuous efforts, Father Theophile Verbist's Belgian mission in China was finally approved and he obtained the approval of Cardinal Sterckx and the Belgian bishops to establish a new Belgian missionary congregation
• The canonical establishment of the congregation by Cardinal Sterckx is dated 28 November 1862
• The new foundation's first formation house was located at an old site of pilgrimage called Scheut, in the municipality of Anderlecht, near Brussels, Belgium
• After the proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1854, there was the rapid spread of the devotion to the "Immaculate Heart of Mary"
• Father Theophile Verbist and his first companions/co-founders Frs. Alois van Segvelt, Frans Vranckx, and Remi Verlinden unanimously agreed to consecrate the Mission to "the Holy Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ and to the Immaculate Heart of the Very Blessed Virgin Mary, to whom they committed themselves to recommend daily the interests of the Congregation"