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Man's Search For God With Introduction To The Catholic Faith

This document discusses the relationship between Catholic faith and Filipino culture. It argues that culture and religion influence each other, and that embracing elements of culture can help people live their faith more fully. It provides examples of how popular Filipino Catholicism has incorporated local cultural practices and values to make Christianity more meaningful for Filipinos. The document advocates adapting the Christian message to the local culture in a way that improves cultural elements and promotes human dignity.

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Man's Search For God With Introduction To The Catholic Faith

This document discusses the relationship between Catholic faith and Filipino culture. It argues that culture and religion influence each other, and that embracing elements of culture can help people live their faith more fully. It provides examples of how popular Filipino Catholicism has incorporated local cultural practices and values to make Christianity more meaningful for Filipinos. The document advocates adapting the Christian message to the local culture in a way that improves cultural elements and promotes human dignity.

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Man’s Search for God with

Introduction to the Catholic Faith


Main Reference: I Believe by Fr. Lode Wostyn, CICM
Course Outline
• Faith and Becoming Human Together
• Faith and Religious Practices
• The Catholic Church and other Christian
Churches
• The Bible: A Guide for my Life
• The Biblical Message: God Offering Salvation
• Christian Faith and Other Religions
We receive, live, express, and transmit
our faith through our culture.

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• It is a system that
includes beliefs,
vales, customs, and
institutions.
Together, these
components unite a
society, giving it a
sense of identity,
dignity, security, and
continuity.
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Culture is created and recreated by people for the
purpose of making life in society more human.
Anything hat hinders this purpose must be removed,
but whatever promotes this purpose must be used.
Religion cannot exist without cultural
expression.

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• “Cultures are not vacuum devoid of authentic
values, and the evangelizing works of the Church is
not a process of destruction, but of consolidating
and fortifying those values, a contribution to the
growth of the ‘seeds of the Word’ present in
cultures.”
– Evangelii Nuntiandi

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Filipino popular Catholicism contributes to the
making of better Christians because it re-
appropriates, indigenizes, Filipinizes, and
therefore, liberates both the Christian message
and culture.

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• Christianity makes
us better Filipinos
because it
improves what is
good our culture.
It invites us to
eliminate from
our culture those
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elements that are


non-Christian and
inhuman.
All too often, we may have promoted and insisted on
the death-dealing practices or activities, rather than
the life-giving expressions of values.
• The Acts and Decrees of the Second Plenary
Council of the Philippines (PCP II, 1991) invite
Catholics to incarnate their faith within Filipino
culture. The most important text can be found in
the numbers 202-211 (Inculturation).
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