CL - LESSON 2

Jesus’ Life

Jesus’ Life

Memory of _ of love and service inspires us today as we continue to struggle in staying to our commitment of making His love present in the world.

Sacrifices

True love entails _

True Love

Decision driven by commitment, patient and merciful

True Love

Stays in good and bad times

Compati

(Compatible) - To suffer with

True Love

Are u willing to suffer with someone until death do you part?

You have found your cross

Croation Tradition - Priest says

Cross

Croation Tradition: To love, carry with you, not to throw away but to treasure

Cross

Herzegovina - Greatest Love

Crucifix

Herzegovina - Treasure of the house

Peter’s Threefold Confession

Restored his threefold denial of Jesus

His People

To love Jesus is to love _

Love of Jesus

Enables and sustains our love for others

Liar

If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a _ (1 John 4:20)

A brother, God

For whoever does not love _ whom he has seen cannot love _ who he has not seen (1 John 4:20)

Love

God is _, and whoever remains in _remains in God and God in him

He first loved us

We love because _

Deus Caritas Est

1st Encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI

God is Love

Deus Caritas Est

Jesus

DCE: God’s love as made flesh in Jesus

Nativity

God’s Love made flesh: Jesus’ _ is inseparable from His passion and death

Incarnare

Latin, to make flesh

Eros, Agape (Receiving, Giving)

God’s Love made flesh: Two forms of love

Jesus, Self-giving love, Cross

God’s Love made flesh: Being God’s beloved, _ complete trust and love of God the Father flowed through his _ on the _

Being Christian

God’s Love made flesh: Not result of ethical choice/lofty idea

Being Christian

God’s Love made flesh: Encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and decisive decision

Christ-centered

A _ community is a community centered on love

Trinitarian Love

Christ-Centered Community: manifested in the loving relationship within the community

Love

Christ-Centered Community: Core of Christian Faith

Charity, Trinity

Christ-Centered Community: If you see _, you see the _ - St. Augustine

Church

Christ-Centered Community: God’s love in the world.

Church, Necessities

`Christ-Centered Community: No one ought to go without _ of life

Charity

Christ-Centered Community: Integral part of what it means to be a Church

Charity

Christ-Centered Community: Responsibility of indiv Christians and of the whole Christian community

God, Neighbor

There is an unbreakable bond between love of and love of

Human Love

Unbreakable Bond: God’s way of loving becomes the measure of _

Loving others

Unbreakable Bond: _ opens our eyes to the many diff ways that God loves us

Charity, Justice, Love

_ and _ go hand in hand to respond to the call of love

Charity

Call of Love: Warns against acts that make a show out of almsgiving to excuse one from their duty to build a just society toward eradicating poverty and oppression to preserve status in society

Justice

Call of love: Both aim and intrinsic criterion of all politics and is the origin and goal, which by its very nature has to do with ethics

Catholic Social Doctrine

Aim is to help purify reason and to contribute, here and now, to the acknowledgement and attainment of what is just

Church

Catholic Social Doctrine: Cannot, must not take upon herself political battle to bring about the most just society possible

Church

Catholic Social Doctrine: Cannot, must not replace state

Church

Catholic Social Doctrine: Cannot, must not remain on sidelines in fight for justice

Church

Catholic Social Doctrine: Alive with the love enkindled by Christ

Church

Catholic Social Doctrine: Offers more than material help

Church

Catholic Social Doctrine: Seeks to give refreshment to the troubled spirit through love

Love, Caritas

Will always prove necessary even in most just society

Love, man

Whoever wants to eliminate _ is preparing to eliminate _ as such.

Concrete love

There will always be a situation of material need where help in the form of _ of neighbor is indispensable.

Distinct Marks of Charity

• Simple response to immediate needs & specific situations

• Not used as tool to advance a particular ideology that does not consider the common good

  • Not bargaining chip that is given as a reward to those who will return from their evil ways

Simple response to immediate needs, specific situations

Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy, Attending to neighbors in need

Not used as tool to advance particular ideology that does not consider the common good

Transparent, no hidden agenda

Not bargaining chip given as reward to those who will return from evil ways

Freely given, non-imposing

God, love

A Christian knows when it is time to speak of _ and when it is better to say nothing and to let _ alone speak.

Love

He knows that God is _ and that God’s presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love.