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Unit1 - Lesson A PDF
Unit1 - Lesson A PDF
PCP II
We look up to Christ as the ultimate revelation of the Father, who calls us to
communion, and as the good teacher who leads us to the Father
a. God as
our Personal
Absolute
Explain Dtv. “The Life of Saint Augustine Explained.” January 26, 2014. From
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMaSjAlWZ00
“ God is a personal absolute
in whom is found the reason
for our existence, and
therefore, He is a being who
gives absolute meaning to our
lives.”
Schillebeeckx, Edward. Christ the
Sacrament of the Encounter with God.
London: Sheed and Ward, 1963.
“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in Himself, in a plan
of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share
in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and
in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to
seek Him, to know Him, to love Him with all his strength.”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
“To be a
human being
means to
come from
God and to go
to God.”
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God, as our personal
absolute, gave Himself
to us through the
incarnation of Christ,
His only Son our Lord.
b. Christ is God in a Human Way
Matthew 5: 3-12
Mark 2:13-17
Luke 18:15-17
c. Christ is Human in
a Divine Way
Who am I?
We rise from the temporary setbacks of our lives and we redirect ourselves back to Christ, “once we
give up our own wealth and very self.”
Mary Magdalene, from whom
Jesus cast out seven demons In Saint Paul who became
In the responses of the Disciples (Luke 8:2) and who later became
whom Jesus invited to follow Him as the apostle to the Gentiles.
the apostle to the apostles.
fishers of men (Matthew 4:19);
Following Christ entails radical conversion: forgetting oneself and committing everything to Christ.
• Stripping the old self of that sinful life to take on the new white garment of Christ.
• It is dying to oneself but rising again as a new person configured to Christ, no longer living one’s life
for one’s own but for Christ.
• Being immersed in the waters of baptism all over again and time and time again
As we praise God for the gift of discipleship, we
recall in thanksgiving those inspired moments
when we triumphed over sin. Let us proclaim in
loving praise that we belong to Christ by
composing a short essay or a poem, with the
theme: “Surviving Mount Temptation: That One
Time when I said Yes to Christ and No to Sin.”