SLIDES ADAPTED FROM MOST REV. BRODERICK S. PABILLO, D.D.

Auxiliary Bishop of Manila

 Pastoral Priorities for the new millennium
according to Novo Millennio Ineunte

1.HOLINESS

• There is a great desire in people to be holy.

• Holiness is attractive to people even in our
times.
• The Church is holy because its goal is to
make people holy and she has the means
to make people holy.

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 Pastoral Priorities for the new
millennium according to Novo
Millennio Ineunte

• All the activities of the Church is to help promote

holiness.
• Bring out in people the desire to be
saints, to be what they really are.

• Present the Saints to the people as role models

• People should see in us our striving to be holy
ourselves. We witness to this.

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 WRONG IDEAS ABOUT HOLINESS
1.It is only for some chosen
few. It is rare and very difficult, if
not altogether impossible, for
ordinary people.

2. One needs to be a priest

or a nun who will have
the time and the training
to be holy
 WRONG IDEAS ABOUT HOLINESS

3. It is corny. One has to be

goody-goody, with one’s feet
off the ground.

4. Holiness is of the past but not for

us in the modern world.
WRONG IDEAS ABOUT HOLINESS

5. Holiness can wait later on,

perhaps when one is already old
and has no more cares about the world.

6. Holiness is not really that important. It is

good if one has it, but really one can get by
quite well without it.
 WRONG IDEAS ABOUT HOLINESS
7. To be holy is to be without
sin. Our life is already tainted by
sin. WE have no chance for it.

.
8 One can be over holy.
Baka makalampas sa langit!
 CALL TO HOLINESS FROM THE BIBLE.

Speak to all the congregation of

the people of Israel and
say to them: You shall be holy, for
I the Lord your God am holy.
(Leviticus 19, 2)

He will also strengthen you to the

end, so that you may be blameless
(holy) on the day of our Lord Jesus
Christ. (1 Corinthians 1, 8)
CALL TO HOLINESS FROM THE BIBLE.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification:

that you will abstainfrom fornication…. 1
Thessalonians 4, 3

To this end we always pray for you, asking that our God
will make you worthy of his call (which is holiness) and
will fulfill by his power every good resolve and work of
faith. (2 Thessalonians 1, 11)
WHAT IS HOLINESS?

Holiness is the
high standard
of ordinary
Christian living.
(Novo Millennio
Ineunte # 31)
 WHAT IS HOLINESS?
-- is the perfection of charity.

-- is doing the will of God.

-- is oneness with God.

--is closely following of Jesus

 * God is holy. We cannot
approach God if we are not
holy.
*To be one with God then
is to be holy.
* To be one with God is to
love him.
* To love him is to keep
his commandment.
* His commandment is
that we love one
another.( Jn 1 4 , 1 5 . 2 1; 15,9-
1 0)
 • Jn. 14,15.21
‘If you love me, you will keep my
commandments…They who have my
commandments and keep them are
those who love me; and those who love
me will be love by my Father, and I will
love them and reveal myself to them.’
 • Jn. 15,9-10
As the Father has loved me, so
I have loved you; abide in my
love. If you keep my
commandments, you will
abide in my love, just as I have
kept my Father’s
commandments and abide in
his love.
 WE BELIEVE IN
ONE,HOLY, CATHOLIC
CHURCH
The Catholic Church is
holy because:

•Jesus, its root, is

holy. He is the
way to the
Father.
 WE BELIEVE IN ONE,HOLY,
CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Catholic Church is holy
because:
•It is capable to make people
holy by the action of the
Holy Spirit.
 WE BELIEVE IN
ONE,HOLY, CATHOLIC
CHURCH
The Catholic Church is
holy because:
•It has the means to
make people holy.
The saints are proofs
that holiness abounds
in the Church.
 MEANS TO HOLINESS
1. Encounter with Jesus in the
sacraments.

2. Praying.

3. Word of God in
the Bible.

4. Faithfulness in the daily

duties of our life.
MEANS TO HOLINESS
5. Avoiding sin
and temptation

6. Doing good to
others
Priests’ specific journey to holiness

There are greater reasons that motivate a

priest to be holy:
1. That he may be worthy of the grace marked
on him to tand in persona Christi capitis.

2. That he may be the living instrument of the

work of salvation.

ex opere operato
ex opere operantis
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 Priests’ specific journey to
holiness

Our specific path:

Holiness in and through ministry.
We not only sanctify others in our ministry.
Our ministry sanctifies us. By acting in persona
Christi we become close to him. We ourselves
become spiritually charged in our pastoral work.
Check this out in each activity that you do as
priests.
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Holiness is not something a priest can
attain by himself or apart from the
community of faith. The priest becomes
holy within the community by
ministering to it and leading it.

In acting as shepherd, the presbyter experiences

his own transformation in the image of the One
he represents. This is how he becomes holy.
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Important elements in the specific
journey of the priest to holiness.

A. A CLIMATE OF PROXIMITY TO JESUS OR

FRIENDSHIP AND PERSONAL ENCOUNTER WITH HIM

B. The Blessed Virgin Mary.

C. Liturgy of the Hours.

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 Hence according to John Paul II:

“Spending time in
intimate conversation with the
Good Shepherd in the Blessed
Sacrament is a pastoral
priority far superior to any
other.”
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 CORRECT IDEAS ON
HOLINESS

1. The objective gift of holiness

is offered to all the baptized.
Baptism is a true entrance into
the holiness of God through
incorporation into Christ and
the indwelling of his Spirit. By
holiness we avoid a life of
mediocrity, that is, reducing
Christianity to minimalistic
ethics and shallow religiosity.
CORRECT IDEAS ON HOLINESS

2. Holiness is a call and a task for

every Christian, not just for a chosen
few.
3. Holiness is achieved in the
ordinary Christian living. “Do your
ordinary duties extraordinarily well.”
 CORRECT IDEAS ON
HOLINESS
4. The ways of holiness are many,
according to the vocation and
tempearament of each
individual.
5. There is a need for a genuine
training in holiness.
6. To be holy is THE most
important thing in life. There is
only one sadness in life, that is,
not to be holy!
Ultimately, what is holiness?
Holiness is…..
Drawing close to God
Perfection of love
Doing the will of God
Following Jesus Christ.