[THY4] SA2 (Spirituality of Mercy + Pastoral Care for Sick and Facing Death)

Throwaway Culture

• The idea that EVERYTHING is disposable

• first was ascribe to things

• Pope Francis said applied na to sa tao

• Dilapidated Dreams / Abandoned Beliefs

• Hakot/Tambak System

• Quickly reduces things to reduce

• Wasting resources by consumerism

• Insatiable wants

• Practice of Contraception and Abortion

• Abandonment of Elderly, Sick, and Handicapped

• Exclusion of Poor

• Discarding of Genuine Relationships, Marriage

What are indicators of Throwaway Culture?

Hedonism and Consumerism

What is the basis of Throwaway Culture?

Hedonism

• “hedone” - pleasure

• doctrine that exalts that the ultimate goal of life is highest good and happiness is PLEASURE

• devotion to pleasure as way of life

• avoid suffering, only pleasurable life

Benedict XVI

Who said about Hedonism “Considers the natural environment only as raw material to be manipulated for our pleasure”

St. John Paul II

Who said about Hedonism “Will result in the loss of interest in others and the world”

• Sexual Pleasure

• Substances

• Luxury

What are the extremes of Hedonism?

Egoism

What is the root of Hedonism?

Egoism

• belief that we ‘do’ and ‘should do’ things for our OWN SELF INTEREST

• sole objective is for self-promotion

• we shouldn’t be anyone’s keepers cuz no one really understands others

• EVERY MAN FOR THEMSELVES

• denies concern for others

Consumerism

• equation of personal happiness by material possession and consumption

Spending on unnecessary stuff makes rich richer and poor poorer

What’s the negative effect of CONSUMERISM on SOCIETY?

OBESITY, buying what I can than what need

What’s the negative effect of CONSUMERISM on INDIVIDUALS?

• Pollution

• Resource Depletion

• wastes from natural resources far more than we can handle

What’s the negative effect of CONSUMERISM on the ENVIRONMENT?

The Spirituality of Mercy

What’s the antidote to Throwaway Culture?

Responsible Consumption

we have to protect God’s gifts so future generations enjoy them

Culture of Solidarity

everyone is a brother and sister and responsible

Culture of Encounter

active concern for the poor, weak, and vulnerable

Jesus

Who is the face of Mercy?

Matthew 5:7

What verse is “Blessed are the Merciful for they shall obtain Mercy”?

God’s Mercy

God’s Justice is?

Chesed (Old)

What is the Hebrew word meaning Loving Kindness, Steadfast Loyalty, and Unfailing Love despite Unfaithfulness of Beloved?

Rachamim (Old)

What is the Hebrew word meaning pity, compassion, to forgive, when one has all the right to be angry?

Eleeos (New)

What is the Greek word that combines Chesed and Rachamim?

Splanka (New)

What is the Greek word that denotes feelings of inmost core of person, warm feeling or discomfort of guts (PAGBALIKTAD NG SIKMURA)?

Misericordia

What is the Latin word that means having compassion (coom - with, passio - to suffer) with all heart?

Having a miserable heart for another person’s misery

Miserere

What is the Latin word that means to pity?

Cor

What is the Latin word that means heart?

Pride

What is the Obstacle of being Merciful that THINKS WE ARE PRIVILEGED CUZ WE HOLIER?

Self-Centeredness (Vanity)

What is the Obstacle of being Merciful that we are BEING ABSORBED IN OUR OWN ISSUES?

Self-Pity

What is the Obstacle of being Merciful that is about the PREOCCUPATION WITH OUR OWN PERCEIVED SUFFERING

Selfishness

What is the Obstacle of being Merciful that WANTS TO KEEP ALL WE HAVE FOR OURSELVES

• Suffering that goes against natural appetite

• Suffering that strikes us suddenly

• Suffering that strikes a person even when they’re good

• Suffering from Misuse of Freedom

What are the FOUR kinds of Human Misery?

Mercy (According to St. Thomas Aquinas)

• It is grounded in the “defect'“ of our nature, our human vulnerability to suffering

• It is the greatest RELATIVE characteristic of God

• It is the greatest DIVINE ATTRIBUTE

• _____ of God is ABSOLUTE

Moral Virtue

What is the characteristic of Mercy that unites man to God through charity?

Supreme Virtue

What is the characteristic of Mercy when directed to those in need?

Affective Mercy

What is the aspect of Mercy that’s an emotion, the pity we feel for the plight of another person?

Effective Mercy

What is the aspect of Mercy that’s something we do, a positive action for the good for others?

• Objectification

• Consumption

• Maximization

• Disposal

What are kinds of SAWA: Throwaway Culture?

• Contemplation

• Compassion

• Care

• Communion

What are kinds of AWA: Culture of Mercy?

Contemplation

What also entails loving awareness that WE ARE NOT DISCONNECTED FROM OTHER CREATURES, BUT JOINED IN UNIVERSAL COMMUNION (Laudato Si, 220)?

Laudato Si, 240

What states “Divine Persons are subsistent relations, and the world is a web of relationships. Creatures tend towards God”?

John 3:16

What chapter states “For God so loved that He gave us His only Son”?

Laudato Si, 89

What states “As part of the universe, called into being by one Father, all of us are linked by unseen bonds”?

Culture of Care

• Pakialam and Malasakit

• God will judge us according to “Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me in, I was naked and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me. Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.” – Matthew 25:41-43, 45