UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS

Tuguegarao City

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS and SCIENCES

First Semester
A.Y. 2021-2022

CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE

CFED 1051- CICM in Action A (Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation and Interreligious Dialogues)

Prepared by:

MICHAEL ANGELO AGUDO

MAE IRENE BAUTISTA
SARAH MARIE IBAY
NICHOLE MAE LOZADA
MICA TALAY
CHARISSA ZALUN

Reviewed by:

WILSON J. TEMPORAL, LPT, MST

CFED Department Head

Recommended by:

VENUS I. GUYOS, Ph.D.

Academic Dean

Approved by:

EMMANUEL JAMES PATTAGUAN, Ph.D.

Vice President for Academic

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 UNIVERSITY PRAYER

O God, wellspring of goodness and blessings, we give you thanks and praise as one Louisian community. The
graces You incessantly grant upon us and Your divine providence have sustained our beloved University throughout
the years of mission and excellence.

Having been founded by the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we pray that You keep us committed
and dedicated to our mission and identity to serve the Church and the society as we become living witnesses to the
Gospel values proclaimed by Jesus. For if we are steadfast in our good and beautiful mission, our works will bring
success not only to ourselves but also to those whom we are bound to love and serve.

Inspired by St. Louis our Patron Saint, who was filled with a noble spirit that stirred him to love You above all things ,
may we also live believing that we are born for a greater purpose and mission as we dwell in Your presence all the
days of our life.

Grant all these supplications through the intercession of

Mother Mary and through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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 School of Education, Arts, and Sciences
Christian Faith Education Department
Curriculum 2021-2022

CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE

CFED 1051- CICM in Action A (Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation and Interreligious Dialogues)

GENERAL INTRODUCTION:

WELCOME TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR 2021-2022! You are enrolled in the Correspondence Learning
Modality. I am (name of the teacher), your instructor in CICM in Action A. Before we go further, let me ask
you a question.

Are you ready to have an expedition with me and deepen your Catholic Christian faith?

If so, I am looking forward for a meaningful continuous learning despite having this pandemic that had
brought this “new normal”. May the Good Lord be with us in our midst! Stay safe, Louisian missionaries!

Stay Connected!

For queries, please feel free to contact me through the following:

 Facebook account/ name:
 E-mail :
 Phone:

Get Involved! USL expects you to do the following:

(For Email)
 The teacher will send the module in your E-mail.
 Send back your accomplished lessons/learning tasks in the PDF format with the file name as CFED 5:
Week #.
 Deadline will be every Saturday.
 Contact me through messenger for any query that you want to make about your lessons or procedures
in school.
 Comply with all requirements (written outputs, projects/performance tasks examinations and the like.)

(For LMS)
 Learning materials like handouts, PowerPoint, scanned books, photos or videos and worksheets will be
uploaded in the Neo-LMS. You are expected to read the lessons before working on the activities or
quizzes.
 You are expected to interact by asking questions or sharing insights through the Discussion Forum.
That is also my way of following up on your progress and of helping you with your difficulties.
 In each lesson, you will be given a worksheet or activity to complete. It is important therefore, that you
read well the materials given before working on any activity.
 Synchronous quiz will be given every week. Low MB usage will be utilized to ensure easy access.
Failure to submit on time requires you to provide written explanation. Allowing you to take another exam
is within the discretion of your instructor. You will be notified of the schedule for quizzes

Be Alert!
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  Lessons will be uploaded every Monday, and submission will be every end of the week.
 For submission purposes, please upload ALL outputs in the LMS or send them to my e-mail.
 Turn in learning tasks on time to avoid backlogs.
 Remember to log in your LMS regularly as that will be the basis of your attendance.
 Be guided by the grading system.

Remember:

Expect to do varied assessments or activities that will be given. At the outset, I am strictly warning you against
plagiarism especially for essay type activities. Plagscan is used to verify authenticity of your work. Any
plagiarized material will be automatically given zero. (This includes copy paste from internet and from your
classmates)

Academic Intellectual Property Rights: Materials posted over NEO-LMS are the properties of USL and the
Facilitators. Students are not allowed to share it to any third-party individuals not part of the class without any
permission from the owners.

I hope you find this flexible approach helpful. Under God’s grace, let’s continue to learn amidst this pandemic.
This is just a challenge, but not a hindrance for us to hone ourselves at its best. Again, stay safe!

Included in this 1st week module are the following:

1. Course Outline ( Read from your books, internet sources in advance)

2. Grading System
3. Program Outcomes and Course Learning Outcomes
4. Weekly Study and Assessment Guide
5. Worksheets to be submitted to your teacher

This Week’s Time Table: (August 17-21, 2021)

For this week, the following shall be your guide for the different lessons and tasks that you need to accomplish.
Oops! Be patient, read them carefully before proceeding to the tasks expected of you.

HAVE A FRUITFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE 😊

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 CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE
CFED 1051- CICM in Action A (Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation and Interreligious Dialogues)
AY 2020-2021

Topic: Background of the CICM Congregation

Learning Outcomes: At the end of this module, you are expected to:

1. Trace the very source of the CICM Mission.

2. Illustrate the continuity of the mission from the Church to the missionaries.
3. Identify the different congregations of priests according to spirituality/mission area.
4. Explain the CICM as one of the many missionary groups.

LEARNING CONTENT

Introduction:

This introductory lesson focuses on tracing the beginning of the mission God has entrusted to people.
Before delving deeper into the context of doing the mission inspired by CICM, the preliminaries will require you
to recall the roots and origin of mission whereby CICM vision and mission are aligned. You might have studied
this already in previous Catholic Faith Education subjects. However, we would like you to see the fundamental
interrelations of these descriptive courses.

Course Outline

Prelim
Introduction
A. The New Areopagi of Mission
B. The New Trajectories of the CICM Mission

JPIC
The Church’s social teaching on Justice, Peace and Creation
1. JUSTICE
a. Justice in the World Today
b. Jesus’ Call to Justice
c. Our Response to Jesus’ Call to Justice

2. PEACE
a. Peace in the World Today
b. Jesus’ Call to Peace
c. Our Response to Jesus’ Call to Peace

3.INTEGRITY OF CREATION
a. Indigenous Peoples
b. Ecological Issues

Midterms
Indigenous Peoples (ad gentes, ad extra, fundamental option for the poor)
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 I. The Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines
A. Identifying the Indigenous Peoples (IPs)
B. Present Situation of IPs
1. Cultural
2. Economic
3. Socio-Political
C. Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA)

IP Apostolate of the Church

A. The Episcopal Commission for Indigenous Peoples (ECIP)
B. Diocesan Indigenous Peoples’ Apostolates (IPA)
C. Mandate of the ECIP-IPA

II. Guidelines on the Work for Evangelization

A. God is present among the IPs even before contact with us
B. Our contact with IPs is preceded by historical circumstances which we must be sensitive to.
C. Proclaiming Jesus is the heart of our evangelization
D. Evangelization is expressed and accomplished through dialogue.
1. Dialogue of life, witness and presence, of action and collaboration for integral human development.
2. Inculturation as an expression of our dialogue with IP faith communities.
E. Incorporation of IPs into the Ecclesial Community of the Church
1. Incorporation is a desired goal.
2. It is absolutely forbidden to use force or proselytism.
3. Some practical guidelines in welcoming IPs into the Ecclesial Community.

Finals
INTERFAITH/RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE (Oneness in spirit and Heart/religious-others as
co-missionaries)

INTRODUCTION
A. Reality of Religious Pluralism
B. Learning the Lessons: Going beyond Borders
C. Method/s of facilitating IF/R dialogue
D. Reflection of the texts of Redemptoris Missio cited above:

UNDERSTANDING DIALOGUE
1. Dialogue does not mean giving up one’s religion or changing it.
2. Dialogue aims at making our religion and culture intelligible to others.
3. Understanding and Information
4. Understanding and Pre-understanding
5. Culture and Cosmovision
6. God’s Absolute Revelation and Man’s Relative Reception
7. Religion and Culture
8. The Dialogue of Religions and Cultures

GRADING SYSTEM

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 Criteria in Grading
Class Standing 70%
Class Activities: Learning Task
Religious Involvement: Mass Attendance/
Reflections
Participation/Recitation
Major Exam 30%
TOTAL 100

INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE

The mark of a true CICM is the zeal for missionary work. This means that the charism of the CICM as a
missionary institute is to go out to those who are in most need (ad extra) - to go into frontier situations, to
nations (ad gentes) wherever the Good News was not heard especially by the poor. “Going out” as a
missionary gesture is the availability of oneself to be sent wherever a CICM presence is needed. Inspired by
the CICM charism of mission ad extra and dedicated to the Incarnate Word and inspired by Mary, Theophile
Verbist animates every CICM missionary to be competent and creative persons in Jesus’ name, and a faithful
disciple at the service of the community for the respect and preservation of the integrity of the whole creation.

Lesson Proper:

God Created all things, (world and the human persons). They were in “paradise” which means, there
was harmony, justice, peace, and joy. Despite the very good conditions of life that they were in, the first human
beings (“Adam” and “Eve”) still committed sin.

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 Brief Historical Background of the Church

Sacrament: means channel, representative, visible sign of an invisible reality.

God Jesus Church

The Sacrament of God is Jesus and the Sacrament of Jesus is the Church (John 20:21,
Acts 1:8)
The Church started as a religious renewal “movement”/group in Jerusalem, Israel by no other
than Jesus Christ. Jesus grounded the Church on the foundation of the Apostles and it spread
from Jerusalem to the Roman Empire world until throughout all the earth.

The first “name” of the Church was The Way (Acts 9:2), The members of the Church were
called Christians in Antioch (Acts 11: 26). The Church was persecuted by the Roman Empire
(which was still pagan) until the Conversion of the Emperor Constantine in 313 AD which paved
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the way for Christians to infiltrate Rome until Christianity was declared as the official religion of the
Roman Empire in 380 AD by Emperor Theodosius.

Way back in 45 AD, the first apostle who went to Rome and started the Church there was
no other than Peter. Later, reflecting on the mission of Jesus which He passed on to the Church,
the Church’s official “name” or title evolved into: One (John 17:21), Holy (Ephesians 1:4, 5:27, I
Peter 2:9), Catholic (Matthew 28: 18-20, Acts 1:8, Gen 12: 3, John 3: 16-17) and Apostolic
(Ephesians 2:20 )

From the Church developed the Hierarchy (Bishops, priests, and deacons – with the Pope
as the overall head for the sake of division of work and maintaining the unity of the Church while it
spreads the Kingdom of God on earth.

From the Church comes the different “kinds” of priests according to spirituality or mission
area.
a. Diocesan is a term use for priests serving their local places;
b. Monks: started in the 3rd century AD in Egypt and in Syria with a life of simplicity or asceticism.

Monks who are composed of sisters (not priests) only came out later. Example of few monks
in Cagayan who are sisters are those at the St. Claire monastery in Iguig.

c. Missionaries are group/community of priests who really want to go to serve remote places not
yet evangelize.
Examples of missionaries are the following:
c.1. The Dominicans who was founded by St. Dominic in Prouille, France in 1216. (Dominic was a
Spanish
priest).
c.2. The Augustinians which started in 1244 in Italy (group or no specific founder).
c.3. The Jesuits or called Society of Jesus who was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola,
formerly a Spanish soldier who became priest.
c.4. The CICM and other missionary groups only came out later.
The CICM was founded by a diocesan priest Theophile Verbist in 1862 in Scheut, Anderlecht,
Brussels, Belgium.

So what is a CICM? It is just one of the missionary groups which is an arm of the
Church for evangelization.

One of the many strategies for missionaries to evangelize people especially the youth
to prepare them to become also evangelizers in their own ways in the future is to establish
schools. With this, obviously, in the missionary schools and even schools established by the local
Church, the core of the curriculum is the Christian Faith Education of the young (children to
college); in a wider sense, the Christian formation of the Community who are running the school.
The CICM established schools for such purpose. Here at the University of Saint Louis, our motto
for us to always remember this is “Mission and Excellence” and among the core values of our
University’s Vision – Mission, the first is Christian Living.

*** END of LESSON 1***

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EVALUATION

Instruction: Fill in the bank with the correct answer that corresponds to the given statement.

Name: Score:
Course/Year: Date:

Instruction: Fill in the bank with the correct answer that corresponds to the given statement/
1. This started as a religious renewal “movement” or group in Jerusalem.
2. What is the first name of the Church?
3. Who started the mission?
4. What is the mission all about?
5. Which of the following missionaries does not have a specific founder?
6. To whom did the ultimate source passed down the mission?
7. Who is now doing and continuing the mission?
8. Who is guiding those people who are doing the mission?
9. What is the characteristic of God that is evident in the illustration?
10. Where did the Church originate?
11. In the 3rd Century how do Monks lived their life?
12. They are communities of priest that serve in remote places that are not yet
evangelize.
13. What is the main purpose why CICM established schools?
14. They are priests that serve their local places?
15. Who declared that Christianity as an official religion in Rome?

REFERENCE:

BOOK:

CICM-membership. (1999). Rome: Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM).

CICM: Christ is calling me: 150 years of service in God's mission (2007 ). Rome: Congregation of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM).

AD GENTES: Decree on the Missionary Acitivity of the Church (7 December, 1965), in “The Documents of
Vatican II”, ed. Walter M. Abbot, S.J., The America Press, New York, 1966, pp. 584-630. Original text in “Acta
Apostolicae Sedis” (AAS), vol. LVIII (1966), pp. 947-990.

LUMEN GENTIUM: Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (21 November, 1964), in “The Documents of Vatican
II”, ed. Walter M. Abbot, S.J., The America Press, New York, 1966, pp. 14-96. Original text in “AAS”, vol. LVII
(1965), pp. 5-67.

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