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: (Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation, and Interreligious Dialogue)

Prepared by:

MICHAEL ANGELO U. AGUDO

MAE IRENE B. BAUTISTA
THELMA BARICAUA
SARAH MARIE IBAY
NICHOLE MAE M. LOZADA
MICA B. TALAY
CHARISSA M. 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 Academics

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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
Department of Philosophy and Religious Instruction
Curriculum 2021-2022

CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE

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

This Weeks’ Time Table: (August 31 – September 04, 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

Date Topics Activities or Tasks

August 30 - The Call for a New Evangelization: The New Read the lesson
September 03 Areopagi of Mission
September 04 Submission of learning tasks Accomplish the worksheet on the latter
part of this module

CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE

CFED 1051 - CICM in Action (Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation, and Interreligious Dialogue)
A.Y. 2021-2022

Lesson 3: The Call for a New Evangelization

Topic: A. The New Areopagi of Mission

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

1. Familiarize yourselves with different terms used by CICM as a reference of doing a particular action;
2. Trace significant events that has led to the call for a new evangelization; and
3. Share your experiences in doing and contributing to any ad intra missions.

LEARNING CONTENT

Introduction:

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’

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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:

A. THE CALL FOR A NEW EVANGELIZATION

Pope Benedict XVI in his address to the

International Congress of Catechists and Religion
Teachers in Rome (12 December 2000) provided
the reason why human beings are in need of a new
evangelization today. He pronounces that the
“deepest poverty is not physical poverty but spiritual
poverty; it is the inability for joy, the tediousness of a
life considered absurd and contradictory. This
poverty is widespread today in varied forms in both
the materially rich as well as the poor countries. The
inability of joy presupposes and results to lack of love; produces jealousy, avarice – all defects which
devastate the life of individuals and of the world.” At this time, people wish to choose the path toward
peaceful life and happiness. New evangelization ushers them to this path – which is the path of Jesus
who has come to evangelize the poor (cf. Lk 4:18).

On October 11, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI issued a letter to the Catholic faithful entitled Porta Fidei.
The document is a call to celebrate a Year of Faith with the theme, “The New Evangelization for the
Transmission of Faith”. The theme was significant since Benedict XVI sees a crisis of faith in the
world, a problem which he considers as the greatest challenge to the Church today. This crisis of faith
is characterized by what the Pontiff describes as an “eclipsed of God, a kind of amnesia which, albeit
not an outright rejection of Christianity, is nonetheless, a denial of the treasure of our faith, a denial
that could lead to the loss of our deepest identity.”

Pope John Paul II had also displayed his great ardor for “new evangelization” during his pontificate.
He envisioned that new evangelization must be applied in a diverse, complex and various societies
where methods and ways of proclaiming the Gospel should always be updated, in order to meet the
needs and special demands of special periods. As he spoke to the Episcopal Conference of a Latin
American meeting in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 9 March 1983, Pope John Paul II emphasizes: “The
commemoration of half-a Millennium of evangelization will have its full significance if there is a
commitment on your part as Bishops, together with your Presbyters and with your Lay Faithful, a
commitment not to re-evangelization, but to a new evangelization. It will be new in its ardor, new in
its methods and new in its expressions.”

A. The New Areopagi of Mission

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The New Evangelization is the announcement of the Good News of Jesus Christ in the midst of the
post-Christian and post-secularist situation of our time. The “New Areopagi” is a metaphor John
Paul II used in a missionary context, defining them as spaces opened to mission. There are two kinds
of New Areopagi: one that is Christian-ecclesial which requires an ad intra evangelization, and
another that is mundane or neopagan, addressed by the ad extra evangelization. The New
Evangelization demands both a new personal experience of faith, considered as a free encounter
with Jesus Christ, and also the discovering of the communal aspect of that faith. From this strong
position we might hope for the recovery of the public dimension of Christianity.
The challenge for mission, hence, is how re-engage western secularized humanity in the search for
meaning – or, rather, to give it fresh focus. One of the advantages for mission in a post-Christian
society is that the phenomenon of “Christianity” has lost the weight of its baggage of history to a large
extent, and along with many of the negative connotations of “Church” and “Christendom”.
“The time is ripe for a new evangelization, speaking with the technology of the digital age that
addresses the search for meaning that surpasses all ages, that respects human freedom and
autonomy that is comfortable with and can dialogue with diversity. And that witnesses to the Kingdom
present amongst us through quiet but persuasive example.”
Therefore, the Church at present is challenged to be involved in the new sectors of evangelization –
the new Areopaguses (Areopagi) of mission.

“Mission today is described as crossing boundaries. It is going to the public square. It is described
as going to the new Areopagi of contemporary times (RM 31-37)”. The new sectors of evangelization
as: cultural sector, social sector, economic sector, civic life sector, scientific research and technology
sector, communications sector, and religious sector. These new sectors of evangelization involve
new techniques and circumstances whereby the laity are called to participate. Javier went further
saying, “the modern equivalents of the Areopagus, therefore, define the parameters of the identity
and mission of the laity in the contemporary word.”

Cultural sector
Today, we are called to give witness to the personal transcendent God. That is, God being alive and
part of human affairs.

Social sector
Recognizing that the world today is the world of mega-migration, the laity hence are invited to enter
into collegiality (interconnected and interdependent) with other peoples and cultures.

Economic sector
In this age of commodification (everything has tag price/for sale), the laity are called to live the
evangelical idea of poverty (you have nothing hence, you have everything).

Civic sector
In this age of strife, the laity are called to participate in the pursuit for peace, liberation of people,
promotion of the indigenous peoples’ rights and the integrity of creation.

Science, Technology and Communication sectors

There is no doubt that at the present, science, technology and communications have been making
great innovations. They seem to become everything for the human person. However, the laity are
challenged to live their lives in aid of virtual reality and not to defy virtual reality.

Religious sector

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Finally, the laity are called to return to religion that promote peace and inter-existence and not on
fundamentalism and violence.

EVALUATION

Instructions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and write FALSE if otherwise. Use CAPITAL
LETTERS ONLY. (15 points)

1. The “New Areopagi” is a metaphor Pope Benedict XVI used in a missionary context, defining them
as spaces opened to mission.
2. Pope Benedict XVI pronounces that the “deepest poverty is not spiritual poverty but physical
poverty; it is the inability for joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory.
3. The document Lumen Gentium is a call to celebrate a Year of Faith with the theme, “The New
Evangelization for the Transmission of Faith”.
4. The New Evangelization demands both a new personal experience of faith, considered as a free
encounter with Jesus Christ, and also the discovering of the communal aspect of that faith.
5. The religious sector are called to return to religion that promote peace and inter-existence and not
on fundamentalism and violence.
6. The purpose of CICM in ‘going out’ is to bring wherever the Good News was not heard especially
by the poor and marginalized sector.
7. The New Evangelization is the announcement of the Good News of Jesus Christ in the midst of the
pre-Christian and pre-secularist situation of our time.
8. The New Evangelization demands both a new professional experience of faith, considered as a
free encounter with Jesus Christ, and also the discovering of the communal aspect of that faith.
9. There are two kinds of New Areopagi: one that is Christian-ecclesial which requires an ad extra
evangelization, and another that is mundane or Neopaganism, addressed by the ad intra
evangelization.
10. Pope John Paul II intended that new evangelization must be applied in a wide-ranging, composite
and different societies.
11. The Year of Faith has the theme, “The New Evangelization for the Transmission of Faith”.
12. Pope John Paul II emphasizes: “The commemoration of half-a Millennium of evangelization will
have its full importance if there is an obligation on your part as Bishops, and Lay Faithful an
obligation to re-evangelization, but not to a new evangelization.
13. The social sector today is the world of mega-migration, the laity hence are invited to enter into
collegiality with other people and cultures.
14. One of the recompenses for mission in a post-Christian society is that the phenomenon of
“Christianity” has lost the burden of its baggage of history to a large extent.
15. The new sectors of evangelization involve new topics and courses whereby the laity are called to
participate.

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REFERENCES:

Books:

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 Activity 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.

Online:

NOVA ET VETERA RP PROVINCE NEWSLETTER. May 2016 Vol. 52 No. 5. (n.d.). Retrieved September 03,
2020, from https://docplayer.net/55474385-Nova-et-vetera-rp-province-newsletter-may-2016-vol-52-no-5.html

Null. (2009, November 16). On New Territories for Evangelizing - ZENIT - English. Retrieved September 03,
2020, from https://zenit.org/articles/on-new-territories-for-evangelizing/

Photo credits:

http://sites.nd.edu/thecc/2013/11/20/how-does-this-sociologist-think-about-the-ne-new-evangelization/
https://www.cssr.news/2021/04/bring-the-gospel-to-the-new-areopagi/

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