Valuing God:

Module II Evolution of Religions

Lesson 1 in the Philippines
(6th week)

Lesson Objectives
At the end of the lesson you will be able to:
1.recall how you value God in your life.
2.demonstrate how Christianity came to the Philippines.
3.explain the importance of Valuing God’s Words .
4. critique the different ways to show valuing God.

Prepare
Task 2.1
Make an essay on how you value God in your life.
Not less than 50 words.

Looking at how God designed us human beings, we can clearly see His wisdom in creating us
to be creatures of value. It is in this that we see what He values and how much He values us: He
came down as man to become the ransom for all mankind.

It was Albert Einstein who once said, "Try not to become a man of success, but rather
try to become a man of value." Values are a set of beliefs, priorities or views that we find most
important in our lives, thus affecting the way we act and make decisions.

A person who values relationships over anything will act differently compared to a
person who values money and material things more than relationships. We are wired to act and
react based on our values.

The primary reason why God made us to act and react based on values is because God
is most involved with the matters of the heart. Although our actions are reflective of what the
contents of our hearts truly are, it's easy to mask the heart's desires with pretentious actions.
 But God looks into our hearts and He knows what our desires are.
In His goodness and justice, He also exposes them both to ourselves and to
others around us. That's why God said in 1 Samuel 16:7, "People look at the
outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

Present
The Philippines proudly boasts to be the only Christian nation in Asia.

1. 86 percent of the population is Roman Catholic,

2. 6 percent belong to various nationalized Christian cults,
3. 2 percent belong to well over 100 Protestant denominations.
In addition to the Christian majority,
4. 4 percent Muslim minority, concentrated on the southern
islands of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan.
5. 2 percent follow non-Western, indigenous beliefs and
practices scattered in isolated mountainous regions .
1. The Chinese minority, although statistically insignificant, has been
culturally influential in coloring Filipino Catholicism with many of the
beliefs and practices of Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

The pre-Hispanic belief system of Filipinos consisted of :

2. a pantheon of gods,
3. spirits,
4. creatures,
5. men that guarded the streams, fields, trees, mountains, forests, and
houses.
6. Bathala, who created earth and man, was superior to these other gods
and spirits.
7. Regular sacrifices and prayers were offered to placate these deities and
spirits--some of which were benevolent, some malevolent.
8. Wood and metal images represented ancestral spirits, and no distinction
was made between the spirits and their physical symbol.
9. Reward or punishment after death was dependent upon behavior in this
life.

Anyone who had reputed power over the supernatural and natural was
automatically elevated to a position of prominence. Every village had its share
of shamans and priests who competitively plied their talents and carried on
ritual curing. Many gained renown for their ability to develop anting-anting, a
charm guaranteed to make a person invincible in the face of human enemies.
Other sorcerers concocted love potions or produced amulets that made their
owners invisible.

Upon this indigenous religious base two foreign religions were introduced
-- Islam and Christianity

Christianity - introduced by Spain to the Philippines in 1565 with the arrival

of Miguel Lopez de Legaspi.

Islam - had been spreading northward from Indonesia into the Philippine

archipelago since 1350.

-Before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century, Islam was firmly
established on Mindanao and Sulu and had outposts on Cebu and Luzon.

-When the Spanish arrived, the Muslim areas had the highest and
most politically integrated culture on the islands. Carrying on their
historical tradition of expelling the Jews and Moros [Moors] from Spain (a
commitment to eliminating any non-Christians), Legaspi quickly
dispersed the Muslims from Luzon and the Visayan islands and began
the process of Christianization.

* Islam was contained in the southern islands,

- Spain conquered and converted the remainder of the islands to Hispanic

Christianity.

6. The Spanish seldom had to resort to military force to win

over converts, instead the impressive display of pomp and
circumstance, clerical garb, images, prayers, and liturgy
attracted the rural populace.
7. To protect the population from Muslim slave raiders, the
people were resettled from isolated dispersed hamlets and
brought "debajo de las companas" (under the bells), into
Spanish organized pueblos. This set a pattern that is evident
in modern Philippine Christian towns.

Pueblos had both civil and ecclesiastical authority; the dominant power Parish
Priests , during the Spanish period, had the dominant power in their hands .

Church, situated on a central plaza, became the locus of town life.

 8. Masses, confessions, baptisms, funerals, marriages
punctuated the tedium of everyday routines.
9. The church calendar set the pace and rhythm of daily life
according to fiesta and liturgical seasons.

Filipino folk Christianity, combining a surface veneer of Christian

monotheism and dogma with indigenous animism.

10. It may manifest itself in farmers seeking religious blessings

on the irrice seed before planting or in the placement of a
bamboo cross at the comer of a rice field to prevent damage
by insects.
11. It may also take the form of a folk healer using Roman
Catholic symbols and liturgy mixed with pre-Hispanic
rituals.

When the United States took over the Philippines in the first half of the
century, the justifications for colonizing were to Christianize and democratize.

12. goals could be achieved only through mass education (up

until then education was reserved for a small elite).
13. Most of the teachers who went to the Philippines were
Protestants, many were even Protestant ministers, this
exerted a strong influence.
*** The balance has shifted to reflect much stronger
influence by the Catholic majority.

During the period of armed rebellion against Spain,

Aglipayan

14. a nationalized church was organized under Gregorio Aglipay,

who was made "Spiritualhead of the Nation Under Arms."
15. In the early part of the 20th century the numbers of
Aglipayans peaked at 25 to 33 percent of the population.
16. Today they have declined to about 5 percent and are
associated with the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States.

Iglesia ni Kristo

17. Another dynamic nationalized Christian sect is the lglesia ni

Kristo, begun around 1914 and founded by Felix Manolo
Ysagun.
Rizalist sects

18. There have been a proliferation of Rizalist sects, claiming the

martyred hero of Philippine nationalism, Jose B. Rizal as the
second son of God and are incarnation of Christ.
19. Leaders of these sects themselves often claim to be
reincarnations of Rizal, Mary, or leaders of the revolution;
claim that the apocalypse is at hand for non-believers; and
claim that one can find salvation and heaven by joining the
group. These groups range from the Colorums of the 1920s
and 1930s to the sophisticated P.B.M.A. (Philippine
Benevolent Missionary Association, headed by Ruben Ecleo).
Most of those who follow these cults are the poor,
dispossessed, and dislocated and feel alienated from the
Catholic church.

Note:

10. The current challenge to the supremacy of the Catholic church comes
from a variety of small sects -- from the fundamentalist Christian groups,
such as Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists, to the lglesia
ni Kristo and Rizalists.
11. The Roman Catholics suffer from a lack of personnel (the priest to people
ratio is exceedingly low), putting them at a disadvantage in gaining and
maintaining popular support.
12. The Catholic church is seeking to meet this challenge by establishing an
increasingly native clergy and by engaging in programs geared to social
action and human rights among the rural and urban poor.
13. In many cases this activity has led to friction between the church and
the Marcos government, resulting in arrests of priests, nuns, and lay
people on charges of subversion. In the "war for souls" this may be a
necessary sacrifice. At present the largest growing religious sector falls
within the province of these smaller, grass roots sects; but only time will
tell where the percentages will finally rest.

Faith has several ways of expressing itself. It depends on:

20. the local history of the church,

21. the national tradition,
22. a whole set of cultural elements which make the expression
of faith unique in some place.

Four main ways of living the faith :

1. the simple faith,
2.the faith of intelligence,
 3.the faith of the heart and
4. the faith of the modern Christians.

1.The Simple Faith

This is the strong faith of ordinary people, workers, farmers,

employees, all men and women of good faith who do not have the words
or the will to define their faith. They just practice it. They live with it all
along their life without asking questions. 
Less and less people are living their faith that way, because of the
difficulty of being independent from external influences from culture,
media, communication, trips, and so on. No one is isolated in one’s
practice
anymore.

2. Blaise Pascal or the Faith of Intelligence

23. This type of faith is strong and articulate when one remains
in the spirit of God, as he said in his Thoughts, avoiding the
“distractions”: “All the evil of the world is summed up by the
fact that one cannot remain quiet and still in his room”.
24. The problem is that the world to-day is made of distractions,
from the society of consumption to the last electronic
instruments, the desire for leisure, of seeing the world, of
being connected with everyone. It becomes difficult to
concentrate one’s life on an objective.
25. The second problem is linked to the disappearance of
transcendence in the modern developed world. The modern
citizen is preoccupied by his or her day to day life, insurance
for the future, health and well-being.
26. The intellectual faith of Pascal is in danger in the modern
world.
3.Mother Teresa or the Faith of the Heart

- Mother Teresa had been left in the darkest night of faith most
of her life. She did not see God, she could not say anything
about him, she did not experience his presence.
27. But she had the faith of the heart of Jesus, a heart given to
the poor ad infinitum, a heart who would love the very many
poor of this world.
28. This made her choose the most difficult attention to the
dying in the worst place of the world, in Calcutta, decades
ago. Those who did not exist for anybody, who ended their
life on the sidewalk, became her privileged friends in the
Lord.
 29. Her faith in God was linked to her love for all because of the
love of Christ for us.
30. This faith of love is more easily understood by modern
people, because it does not need the faith in transcendence.
31. It can be exercised from inside the world on the level of
human feeling, of attention to one’s neighbor, of applying the
golden rule: “Do to others what you would like them to do
for you”. -
32. Humanitarian feelings are not religious, even if they are
generous. But they are grounded in strong values of human
right and human dignity which can maintain a strong level
of commitment from more and more non-religious people. –
33. The faith of the heart can be shared even if there is no faith.

4. The Faith of the Modern Christian Hero

- Another model is now present in secularized countries of Europe, the

Christian believer who has resisted all elements of secularization, power
of science, leisure preoccupations, modern pleasure, insurances by the
state, etc. Beyond all the changes and the worldliness of daily life, he
discovers and lives the reality of faith.
34. Vocations to the priesthood or religious life are coming in
much smaller number, like in the developed world. The globalization of
unbelief is on the way at different paces. It demands now a strong
personal decision to live one’s faith in this context. You have to be a real
hero to maintain this life.

Filipino Practice of Faith

In the Philippines, another way of practicing one’s own belief is experienced

through many great events;
35. The novena of Simbang Gabi (Dawn Masses) before
Christmas in the whole country,
36. Various processions
1. of the Virgin of Peñafrancia in Naga,
2. of the Black Nazarene in Quiapo
3. the Santo Niño in Cebu with millions of devotees involved.
14. These events come from a long tradition which began during the period
of evangelization by the Spaniards, and are practiced even outside the
Philippines. But it has been taken up in the archipelago, practiced for
centuries, codified locally sometimes. 
15. What is the common characteristic of these events?
37. They involve a physical commitment of devotees who
participate in great numbers together as a community of
faith.
16. This does not mean that the heart or intelligence is absent, but they are
not the basis of that faith: here the devotee is totally physically involved
with others in the practice.
-He/she is even exhausted by such act of faith.
- He/she shares the concentration of people by standing for hours
together in a very dense togetherness.
- He/she builds faith by physical commitment.
- He/she builds the community by being there together/ living
together
as Filipinos as a sign of one’s identity.
17. This physical and communal commitment is the condition for the answer
to the grace or petition that the devotee has been asking. It guarantees a
response from God.

18. The past practices of pilgrimage where faith was expressed through the
reality of walking for thousands of miles, like St. Ignatius of Loyola going
to Jerusalem, or like today when thousands of people walk to Santiago
de Compostela. This is an expression of faith.

19. Processions are important but not at that level.

20. What is unique in the Philippines is also the repetition of the phenomena
in different places: 

1. Simbang Gabi, which has disappeared everywhere else, is

celebrated all over the country in overflowing churches.

2. The whole Black Narazene procession is managed by lay people

who decide where they want to go, how and when.

Is this faith?
38. Clearly yes, because it is an expression of belief in God, in
the Cross, in the Child Jesus to which the crowd gives its
confidence and directs its questions and prayers: God will
answer them, console them, welcome them. 

Can it be transmitted?
39. It is already transmitted by the presence of many young
people. There is nothing intellectual here. It is not the fruit of
 a decision after a moment of freedom and of distance: the
young devotee follows his or her brothers and sisters in the
community. The transmission is working.

This expression of faith is nevertheless threatened by

many factors, like the different forms of faith, but differently.
The more individualistic expression of faith puts a question
to that physical and community practice. Each believer is
looking for each one’s own comfort, each one’s best way of
practicing the faith: that physical and community practice
does not respond to an easy project. But so far, this
expression is resisting the threat of individualism.

21. There is an attempt from the bishops to transform the strength of these
manifestations into social action.
40. In 2013, the Archbishop of Nueva Caceres has put all over
the city the banners of the Peñafrancia with the inscription,
“Growing in Catholic faith in Jesus Christ with Mary at the
Service of Social Transformation”. Such a proposal is new,
but it is less than evident, because the roots of the event are
not related to society and it is not a reflexive faith, but an
existentialfaith.

22. This Filipino practice of faith is well alive despite its limitations. It is not
in danger of disappearance. The only shadow could be the possible
commercialization and folklorization of these events.

Five Principles for Raising a Godly Family

by Jim and Jessica Hall
Christian Living
41. Godly families are the bedrock of any spiritual community,
and having godly children is a blessing that many parents
long for.
42. Strategies that work with certain children and certain
families don’t work exactly the same way with others

Principle One: Godly Families Begin with Godly Marriages

“It is critical to begin with a right understanding about the subject of families, and that is this:
God is FOR family, and God is for you. The Godhead is a family, and it is clear throughout
scripture that it’s God’s desire to extend this family.
23. Family begins with the marriage of a man to a woman.
24. Marriage is a God covenant, a God idea—it was not just a good idea
thought up by someone down the centuries.
25. The permanency of such a covenant, in an age where marriage is
anything but permanent, is the primary foundation to create a good
bedrock for a godly family.

Principle Two: Raising Godly Children Is a Parent’s Mandate and Responsibility

26. “God said to the first married couple, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the
earth.’ As man was made in the image of God, His desire was that His
offspring would also be reproduced in His image.
27. This injunction from God has not changed.
28. Christian couples must always be mindful that God desires them to send
out kingdom offspring, in His image, and as lights into a dark world. This
is a big responsibility that God has given to married couples.”

Note:

29. “It can never be emphasized too strongly that bringing up children in the
nurture and love of God is a divine call and command.”
43. There is always a danger that couples, perhaps
unconsciously, consider their children to be appendages and
burdens which bring restrictions upon their own personal
plans and lives.
44. The reality is that in the span of eternity (and let’s be honest,
even the span of an adult life), the time taken to raise a child
from birth to adulthood is very brief.
45. In these years, the influence that parents will have on their
children, for good or bad, is incalculable. The Word says,
‘Train up a child in the way he should go, and . . . he will not
depart from it.’

46. Remember—YOU you act as a parent to train your child.

Principle Three: Discipline in a Godly Family

30. “Discipleship is about living in obedience to God’s will and purpose;
many people find it difficult to live in obedience to God when they have
never learnt to be obedient to their parents in the first place.”
31. As a family, they also follow the 10 Commandments given by God
through Moses. According to Moses, if value God’s words we have to
follow his words.
32. “People often equate discipline and punishment as being the same thing;
it is not. A couple must be united, one together, with the disciplines they
place around their family for safety and protection. Punishment only
occurs when children flagrantly disobey what they have been clearly told
by their parents to do, or not to do. We always found when our children
understood this, there was rarely any need for punishment.”

Principle Four: Maintaining a Right Attitude

33. “One important family value, which we have built in as a discipline, has
been that we do not argue or carry bad attitudes with each other—the
child is taught from an early age to resolve conflict with a right attitude.
These issues were often what we talked and prayed about at the ‘family
altar’, and this was how issues were generally settled.”

Principle Five: Praying as a Family

34. “the family that prays together, stays together.”
35. Parents must pray together as a couple, and with their children.
36. Couples should already be praying together before the children arrive, as
part of a healthy marriage, so that when children are born, they are
brought into the correct environment.
37. A family’s life in God together should never be underestimated—it is the
foundation of a strong family in an ungodly world.”

Remember: Families who pray, pull, and play together stay together, and shine out as a bright
light in a dark and confused world.

https://www.ihopkc.org/resources/blog/5-principles-raising-godly-family/

Practice
Task 2.2
Using a photo essay, illustrate
how Christians or your own
religion value God.

Critique the different ways to

show that we value God.
 Task 2.3
Read this link:
https://www.angelfire.com/ok/mmreg/c
hurch/index.html
Explain how the writer value God’ Words.

Explain the importance of

Valuing God’s Words .

Summ
arySince the pre-colonial of the Philippines, our ancestors have their beliefs
and cultural mores anchored in the idea that the world is inhabited by spirits
and supernatural entities, both good and bad and that respect must be
accorded to them by worship.
Filipinos stand out for their devotional fervor to show that they value God
in their lives. Filipino Catholic practice is unusually material and physical,
even among Catholic cultures, built especially on
1. devotions to Mary,
2. the suffering Christ,
3. the Santo Niño(Holy Child),
4. powerful celebratory and penitential rituals
47. practiced and experienced in a wide variety of Filipino
vernacular forms. 
5. Feasts like the Black Nazarene, which draws millions to the streets of
Manila in January,
6. the Simbang Gabi novena that precedes Christmas, and
7. the month-long Flores de Mayo offering to Mary illustrate distinctively
Filipino forms of devotion.
 Culmi
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Activit 1.
Task 2.4
Base on your religion, make a collage

y
on the different ways to show how you
value God.
2. Be able to critique if it is valuing or
not. (on a separate sheet of paper.

Refere
nces
https://www.christiantoday.com/article/why-god-operates-on-the-principle-of-
values/84361.htm

https://asiasociety.org/education/religion-philippines

https://www.lst.edu/community/article-archives/712-a-filipino-practice-of-faith-p-de-
charentenay-sj

https://www.ihopkc.org/resources/blog/5-principles-raising-godly-family/

https://www.angelfire.com/ok/mmreg/church/index.html
Module II
Lesson 2 Valuing God:
(7th week)
God’s Presence

Lesson Objectives
At the end of the lesson you will be able to:
1.acknowledge and explain the presence of God in your life.
2. make a short prayer to thank God’s presence in your life.

Prepare
Footprints in the Sand
Footprints in the Sand, a beautiful poem!
One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.

After the last scene of my life flashed before me,

I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.

"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."

He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."

Task 2.2.1

Watch and listen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKnb21pwESI

Follow up questions:
When are the times when you felt that you were alone or down?
How did you see God in those moments?
 Present
In our day-to-day life, we seldom thank the Lord for what we have. We
took God’s miracles in our lives for granted. When we are down, alone and with
challenges, we blame
God instead of searching for His help and guidance.
At this point, let us try our best to search God in our lives.
Let us read the following verses:
Psalm 16:11 
48. You make known to me the path of life; in your presence
there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures
forevermore.

Jeremiah 29:13

49. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all
your heart.

James 4:8
50. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse
your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you
double-minded.

Practice
Task 2.2.2

This game is the same with scavenger hunt, but you are hunting God in
this activity. You are to gather evidences on God’s presence in your life. You
have to search deeper.
Answer the following questions as evidences that God is present in your
life.
Paste pictures of evidences of your answers the page after all the questions.
1.What are the things that you enjoy right now?
____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________
2.What are the things that you look forward to each day?

__________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

3. Enumerate the skills and talents that you have.

____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

4. What can you do?

____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

5. What are the challenges that you have overcome?

____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

6. How have you earned your strength as a person?

____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

7. How do you feel being able to transcend challenges?

____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

8. Are there people who show their love and concern for you?
____________________________________________________________________________
 ___________________________________________________________________________

Paste your pictures here: (if you need another sheet of bond paper, you are free
to do it)
 Summ
ary We have to acknowledge God’s presence in our day-to-day life.
We see God through the people we meet, the things that we do, the things that
we have or do not have, the things that we enjoy or do not enjoy, in our
challenges in life.

Hebrews 13:5 
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for
he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

1 Corinthians 3:16 
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in
you?

Culmi
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Activit Task 2.2.3
Make a short prayer thanking God for His

y
presence in your daily life.
Make a daily journal, write the evidences of
God’s presence in your life. You label your journal
with, “My Blessings from God”. (to be passed at
the end of May)
 Refere
nces
https://www.openbible.info/topics/gods_presence

https://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKnb21pwESI

Briones, Ed Herpert D, MA(2014).BECOMING, Values Education 10 p.86-89 Trintas Publishing

Inc. Quezon City.
 Valuing God:
Module II Love for God…. Love for
Lesson 3 Neighbors
(8th week)

Lesson Objectives
At the end of the lesson you will be able to:
1. cite specific/real ways of showing love for God and other people.
2. make a poem /song on Love for God and neighbors.

Prepare
Do you love God? How do you show that you love God?

1 John 4:12 
51. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides
in us and his love is perfected in us.

Matthew 22:36-40 
52. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And
he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
This is the great and first commandment. And a second is
like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these
two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

We don’t personally see God, but he is always in our midst. He is

in the people that we meet and deal each day.
 We can say that we love God based on how we think, talk and
act. And also when we share our talents to others and whatever we do to least
of our brothers/sisters .

Showing our love to our neighbors or fellowmen should be done

regularly, constantly and consistently so our act of love will be a commitment
and sincere.

Present
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or
rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it
does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all
things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never
ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will
cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 

When someone tells us that he/she loves us, we want that

person to show us that love in action. We also say, “actions speak louder than
words.”

Task 2.3.1
Complete the table. Write the names of the people who loves you on the
left column. Write the ways that convince you that they love you on the right
column.

People Who Love Me Actions That Show They Love Me

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.
 At this point, it is your turn to write the names of the people you love and
how you showed them that you love them.

People I Love My Actions that Show My Love for Them

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Questions:

1.Why do you need to put into action when you say, “I LOVE YOU?”

2.Which of these actions is the easiest to do? Why?

______________________________________________________________________________

3.Which of these actions is the hardest to do? Why?

4.How do you show your love to God?

______________________________________________________________________________
 Practice
Task 2.3.2
In what ways can you show your love for
God?
1. Create a photo journal showing your
faith and love for God.
2. In your journal, make an essay on how
you showed your love for God.

Summ
ary Actions are concrete ways of showing our love. Words lose their
meaning when they are accompanied by actions. Our actions show care
and concern for others. And as the Bible says: “You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your
strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” (Luke
10:27)

Let us spend time getting to know God. Let us worship Him

wholeheartedly.
53. Attend mass or worship service at church.
54. Pray to God as if He is standing right next to you and trust
that He always listens.
55. Pray anytime of the day. There is no limit to communicating
with our Creator.
“ Rejoice, always pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this
is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
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nating
Activit Task 2.3.3
“If you love me, you will keep my

y 1.
commandments.” John 14:15 
In your journal, write the 10
Commandments and give at least 3
ways on how you abide in each
Commandment.

Refere
nces
https://www.openbible.info/topics/loving_your_neighbor

https://www.openbible.info/topics/ten_commandments

Briones, Ed Herpert D, MA(2014).BECOMING, Values Education 10 p.86-89 Trintas Publishing

Inc. Quezon City.