Who Is The Filipino Christian

RE 113 • It manifest a deep, positive spiritual value of
Filipinos’ kalooban.
Who is the Filipino Christian?
Jesus the Suffering Servant can thus reach out to us
 There are deep affinities between Christ’s message Filipinos as healing and forgiving who understands our
and the Filipinos inmost ways of thinking and weaknesses, our failures, our feelings of depression fear and
acting. loneliness
 Much of the Gospel has become part of us –
 compassion, forgiveness, caring, piety – and makes Jesus Christ calls: “Come to me , all you who are weary and
of us a basically decent people. find life burdensome, and I will refresh you.” ( Mt 11:28 )
 To identify what it means to be a Filipino Christian, LIFE – COMMITMENT

we ask? We Filipinos are Bayani – Oriented
From whom do we naturally draw our self identity? Where do • Patient and tolerance, we will not accept ultimate
we find the deepest meaning in our lives? How do we react failure and defeat.
to suffering? How do we commit ourselves to our ideals in
life? What is our view of the world in all its depth and hidden • We tend instinctively to always personalize any
reality? good cause in terms of a leader, especially when its
object is to defend the weak and the oppressed.
SELF IDENTITY
Jesus came as one sent by the Father, to do the Fathers
We Filipinos are Family Oriented will.
 This Family – Centeredness supplies a basic He was to bring glad tidings to the poor, to proclaim liberty to
sense of belonging, stability, and security. It is from captives, recovery of sight to the blind, and release to
our families that we Filipinos naturally draw our prisoners.
sense of self – identity.
Jesus assures us that everything will be alright in the end of
Jesus as both the son of God and the son of man endears time.
himself naturally to us family – oriented Filipinos.
WORLD VIEW
Welcomes us into his own household, offers himself as our
brother. We Filipinos are Spirit - Oriented
Through Baptism draws into a new identity, and into family • We are often said to be naturally psychic
life with the heavenly Father.
• We have a deep-seated belief in the super natural
MEANING IN LIFE and in all kinds of spirit dwelling in the individual
persons, places and things.
We Filipinos are Meal Oriented
Jesus the “miracle – worker” who promised to send his Spirit
• We are known for being gracious hosts and grateful to his disciples to give them new life
guests.
The Holy Spirit, sent by the Father and the Risen Christ,
• Jesus as Eucharist is the host of the new Paschal draws us Filipinos into a community wherein superstition and
Meal, and even the guest in every gathering. enslaving magic are overcome by authentic worship of the
Communion – eating together in table fellowship with the Father in spirit and truth.
presence of the risen Christ. Who then are the Filipino Christians?
We Filipinos feels naturally at home in breaking bread with • We are Filipino who have experienced in one way
Jesus. or another our Filipino Identity, meaning, suffering,
Eucharist symbolizes transformation, salvation, liberation commitment, and world view are all tied to Jesus
through communion with Jesus. Christ. Like a diamond with a thousand faces,
Christ is able to reveal to every person and nation,
SUFFERINGS IN LIFE their very own unity, truth and value.
We Filipinos are Kundiman – Oriented (Kundiman is a sad
Filipino song about wounded love.)
• We are forgiving and patient to a fault.
Christians are men and women who are baptized in the faith
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who became man to be
Savior of all. United in the Church as Christ’s people of God,
they live out this faith in personal conviction, committed
witness and Spirit -inspired worship of God their Father.
HOW DOES THE CHURCH RELATE BEING CHRISTIAN
WITH OUR FILIPINO CULTURE?
• The Church teaches that we Filipino Christians
must know our own culture, and by our Christian
Faith in Christ, purify, guard, develop, and perfect it.
• Likewise we must inculturate our Catholic Faith into
our Filipino ways.
Jesus Christ as Son of God and Son of Man:
 + brings us into the family of God our Father;

 + nourishes us as Eucharist;
 + redeems us as Suffering Servant;
 + calls us to personal commitment to Him as our
 Risen Hero King;
 + is experienced in his community, the church;
 + gives us Mary His Mother to be our mother in
 Grace. (grace - God’s personal presence in us)

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RE 113 • It manifest a deep, positive spiritual value of

 To identify what it means to be a Filipino Christian, LIFE – COMMITMENT

 + brings us into the family of God our Father;

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