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Awakening From The Sleep of Inhumanity (Jon Sobrino)
Awakening From The Sleep of Inhumanity (Jon Sobrino)
of Inhumanity
Sleep of Inhumanity
…pagkatulog saan?
Daloy ng talakayan:
1) Paunang pagninilay ni Jon Sobrino
1.1. journeying with/accompanying
1.2. contextualization/inculturation
2) 5 Katotohanang hatid ng karanasan ni Sobrino
- katotohanan tungkol sa Diyos
- katotohanan tungkol sa tao
2.1. nakapakong sangnilikha
2.2. tingin o titig ng Diyos
2.3. pagpapakatao
2.4. pakikidigma ng Diyos
- ‘beautitudes’
2.5. prinsipyo ng habag
- corporal at spiritual works of mercy
- Ang Mabuting Samaritano
3) Pagpapalalim ng pagninilay ukol sa prinsipyo ng habag
- habag bilang paglalim ng pagpapakatao
- habag bilang tanda ng mas malalim na kapangyarihan ng Diyos
4) Pagsasara ng talakayan
- tula bilang tulong pagninilay
- paglalagom
Sobrino’s experience and reflection
contextualization inculturation
Sobrino’s experience and reflection
Word Made
Flesh
Sobrino’s experience and reflection
Human Beings
God
(1) “The world is one gigantic cross for
millions of innocent people who die at
the hands of executioners.”
“The world is one gigantic cross for millions of
innocent people who die at the hands of
executioners.”
Kind of Death?
- Slow: “at the hands of structures of injustice”
* the poor from physical death, and all of us from
moral death (indifference, apathy, hopelessness)
- Swift and violent: persecution when standing
up and fighting for social justice. Like who?
“The world is one gigantic cross for millions of
innocent people who die at the hands of
executioners.”
Innocent people?
- Why innocent?
Innocent people?
POVERTY, GENEROSITY,
INJUSTICE, JUSTICE,
HOPELESSNESS HOPE
(SIN) (GRACE)
- God’s self-gift
Love
“. . . We have rediscovered how God looks at
God’s crucified creation.”
That person will not allow anyone – even God – to touch his
heart or her heart for it is an insult.”
“If you set your heart and bend your whole energies
to obtain the things which the world values, you will get
them – BUT THAT IS ALL YOU WILL EVER GET.”
“. . . this true God is at war with other gods.”
The Challenge:
Will you be happy in the world’s way, or in Christ’s way?
* community - individual
“. . . this true God is at war with other gods.”
* faith - positivism
(5) “. . . We have rediscovered that the
faithful response to this world of victims is
the constant exercise of mercy.”
““. . . We have rediscovered that the faithful response
to this world of victims is the constant
exercise of mercy.”
WORKS OF MERCY
Corporal Spiritual
CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY
(kawanggawang pangkatawan)
?
WORKS OF MERCY
< MERCY PRINCIPLE
The Good Samaritan
Luke 10: 25-37
The Parable of the Good Samaritan.
35 The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to
the innkeeper with the instruction,
‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given
you, I shall repay you on my way back.’
The Parable of the Good Samaritan.
37 He answered,
“The one who treated him with mercy.”
Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”
Jerusalem to Jericho
the traveller
the Jewish priest
the Levite
the “good” Samaritan
The Greatest Commandment.
25 There was a scholar of the law who stood up to test him and
said, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
27 He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all
your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and
with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
27 He said in reply, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all
your heart, with all your being, with all your strength, and
with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
The Point:
Jesus’ answer.
36 Which of these three, in your opinion, was neighbor to the
robbers’ victim?”
37 He answered,
“The one who treated him with mercy.”
The Good Samaritan
1. Who is my neighbor?
The Point:
35 The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to
the innkeeper with the instruction,
‘Take care of him. If you spend more than what I have given
you, I shall repay you on my way back.’
The Good Samaritan
The Point:
2. Why is the Samaritan identified
as the neighbor?
Compassion –
Greek “Splagchnizomai” in Scriptures
WORKS OF MERCY
- Acting in order to
< MERCY PRINCIPLE
- Basic structure of the
fulfill a commandment response to this
world’s victims
- Making someone else’s
pain our very own and
allowing the pain to
move us to respond
The Good Samaritan
Compassion –
Greek “Splagchnizomai” in Scriptures
The Point:
Jewish priest –
Levite –
Suspecting of the
wounded man and
would not take risk to
help anyone
The Good Samaritan
Samaritan –
Was prepared to
help the man even
when he has brought
his trouble on
“A man fell victim to robbers himself.
as he went down from Jerusalem
to Jericho.”
The Good Samaritan
Samaritan –
Sees and helps not a
Jew but a fellow
human being who
desperately needs
“They stripped and beat his help
him and went off leaving him
half-dead.”
3. How should I show mercy/compassion and be a neighbor?
Samaritan –
Help was as wide as
the love of God –
even exposing
himself to danger
“He approached the victim, and vulnerability
poured oil and wine over his wounds
and bandaged them.
Then he lifted him up on his own animal... “
3. How should I show mercy/compassion and be a neighbor?
Samaritan –
Help was as wide as
the love of God
“…took him to an inn and cared for him.
(remains a present
The next day he took out two silver and active love
coins & gave them to the innkeeper throughout the
with the instruction, process)
‘Take care of him. If you spend more
than what I have given you, I shall
repay you on my way back.’”
Paano na natin naaalala o nakikilala
ang Samaritano ngayon?
37 He answered,
“The one who treated him with mercy.”
The Point:
1. “And who is my neighbor?”
Those with Mercy in action.
2. Compassion “Sphlagchnizomai”
“Hindi natin masikmura yan…”
(malalim na pagkagambala sa loob ng tao)
3. Our motives and ways of showing mercy
Like the priest, Levite or Samaritan?
“Mercy: the fundamental law
that dwells in the heart of
every person who looks
sincerely into the eyes of his
brothers and sisters on the
path of life.
-- Misericordiae Vultus
(Pope Francis)
““. . . We have rediscovered that the faithful response
to this world of victims is the constant
exercise of mercy.”
WHY?
Misericordiae Vultus. BULL OF INDICTION OF THE
EXTRAORDINARY JUBILEE OF MERCY.
Given by Pope Francis in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 11 April, the Vigil of the Second
Sunday of Easter, or the Sunday of Divine Mercy, in the year of our Lord 2015, the
third of my Pontificate.
6. “It is proper to God to exercise mercy, and he manifests his
omnipotence particularly in this way”.[5]
I was hungry …
And you formed humanities groups to discuss my
hunger.
I was imprisoned …
And you crept off quietly to your church and prayed for
my release.
I was naked …
And in your mind you debated the morality of my
appearance.
I was sick …
And you knelt and thanked God for your health.
I was homeless …
And you preached to me of the spiritual shelter of the
love of God.
I was lonely …
And you left me alone to pray for me.
Truth mercy
Gratitude
Faith Grace