SR. NORINE’S PERSONAL REFLECTIONS

Sr. Norine, SMF

The following are the personal reflections of Sister Norine, SMF from Myanmar.   Sr. Norine is in the habit of writing a personal synthesis after every module; she does it mainly in order to eventually share them with her community upon returning to her country.

THE CHALLENGE OF INCULTURATION

By Sr. Norine, SMF

The young church in Myanmar is in need of inculturation. This means that as a missionary I am challenged to really understand the meaning of the Gospel and the culture where I am being sent to minister to the people.

            It is also the requirement for a missionary to be sensitive to different cultural patterns of the people he serves and the local expression of their faith in God. It is good to be always aware of the risks involved in the process of inculturation especially in interpreting the Word of God and language and symbols of the local culture.

            As I return to my local context with new eyes I am urged to study in a deeper manner the culture of my people and the story of Jesus. Together with them we will strive to develop a process that will make sense to the Christian community in Myanmar.

MY UNDERSTANDING OF BASIC ECCLESIAL COMMUNITIES AND

By Sr. Sabina Gonzaga, OP

Basic Ecclesial Communities as I understand them are who gather together in a particular community and who are basically poor and in need of help.  This is the general problem, and so I move in to meet with them in order to discuss and find out what they really need to help themselves. Their needs are varied, but in general those needs are understood as spiritual, developmental and liberational.

MISSION SPIRITUALITY

 

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father

Fr. Vito del Prete the resource person.

and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you”. (Matthew 28:19-20).

 

 

Every year on the third Sunday of October the Catholic Church celebrates World Mission Sunday.

“Dialogue starts from God and brings people back to God”

  By Ms. Elizabeth Solis of Emmaus, Zamboanga City – Philippines

  This reaffirms the centrality of God and God’s dialogical presence in    humanity that can transform people and society. God takes the initiative to dialogue with us and in turn we response to His call through our specific vocation and mission. Listening to the talk of Fr. D”Ambra, the founder of

Fr. D'Ambra, PIME with the two Ustadz of Zamboanga City spoke on Dialogue

Silsilah Dialogue Movement, gives me a new insight that dialogue is not strategy; it is a style of life and at a deeper level it is spirituality and an experience of life. There can be no true dialogue if there is no authenticity of heart as dialoguer. With this we can be an agent of peace to ourselves, family, and society.  “Padayon” ‘Move On”.

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE MISSION OF LEADERSHIP IN PARTICIPATORY CHURCH

Sr. Ester

Leadership is about behavior.  It is an attempt to influence others to formulate their common goals and to seek means to accomplish it. There are styles of leadership, and each type is dependent on the readiness of the people involved.

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON THE RETREAT

Fr. Agus Sugiarto’s reflection

Opening of the Retreat

I would like to share my own reflection during 5 days of my retreat.  Jesus is  the Lord, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, and took upon himself the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of man.

MISSION ON PEACEMAKING

Mar Alicaway

MARINO ‘Mar’ REYES ALICAWAY is the IRD Project Director of OND-HESED Foundation, Inc. in General Santos City. He attended as an Auditor the module on Mission of Peacemaking offered at the Euntes Mission Center by Ms Ida Guiguiento of the Mindanao Peace Institute the week of September 21 to 25. What follow is Marino’s personal reflection.

Sept. 25 – Feast of Blessed John Muzzucconi, missionary priest & martyr.

Blessed John Mazzucconi was born on March 1, 1826 at Rancio di Lecco in the diocese of Milan, Italy.

MISSION AND THE SACRAMENTS

By:  Joseph, Arthur, Lloyd & Lucy

The decree Ad Gentes on the mission activity of the church stresses the following:

“Divinely sent to the nations of the world to be unto them “a universal sacrament of salvation,” the Church, driven by the inner necessity of her own catholicity, and obeying the mandate of her Founder (cf. Mark 16:16), strives ever to proclaim the Gospel to all men