UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS

Tuguegarao City

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, ARTS and SCIENCES

First Semester
A.Y. 2023-2024

LEARNING MODULES
CFED 1013- God’s Journey with His People

Prepared by:
MAE IRENE BAUTISTA
JOHN KENNETTE DADO
PAUL-IRIS CANCERAN
IVANA MARYS PAGUIRIGAN
LOREN JAY POSIQUIT
JOVERT SEBASTIAN
DANIMAR TABIJE
SEVERO WASHINGTON, MARS
ESPERANZA ZABLAN,MARS

Reviewed by:

MRS. GIANETTE P. PAGALILAUAN, MARS

CFED Department Head

Recommended by:

HERBERT S. CORPUZ , Ed. D.

Academic Dean

Approved by:

EMMANUEL JAMES PATTAGUAN, Ph.D.

Vice President for Academics

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 School of Education, Arts and Sciences
Curriculum 2018-2019
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LEARNING MODULE
CFED 1013 (God’s Journey with His People)

GENERAL INTRODUCTION:

ALOHA! WELCOME TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR 2023-2024!

FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT AND TOGETHER LET’S JOURNEY WITH GOD.

Get Involved!

● Comply with all requirements (written outputs, projects/performance tasks examinations and the like.)

Be Alert!

Remember:

Academic Intellectual Property Rights: Materials posted over Aralinks are the properties of USL and the
Facilitators. Students are not allowed to share it to any third-party individuals not part of the class without any
permission from the owners.

Included in this 1st week module are the following:

1. Course Outline ( Read from your books, internet sources in advance)

2. Grading System
3. The USL Vision-Mission and Values, Program Outcomes, Course Learning Outcomes

This Week’s Time Table:

For this week, the following shall be your guide for the different lessons and tasks that you need to accomplish.
Be patient, read them carefully before proceeding to the tasks expected of you.

HAVE A FRUITFUL LEARNING EXPERIENCE 😊

Date Topics Activities or Tasks

Orientation/Setting of Expectations Read the General Introduction part
Week 1 Brief Background of the Church from Read Lessons
God’s salvific Plan

CICM-Philippines School Network: Vision-

Mission
US: Vision – Mission
USL: Core Values
Introduction to the Course
Course Outline
Bible

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COURSE OUTLINE

Introduction:

1. Brief background of the Church and the CICM

2. Introduction to Sacred Scriptures
3. Bible
4. Biblical inspiration
5. Canon of the Bible
6. Interpretation of the Biblical Text

Chapter I. God, the FATHER journeys with His people: God’s promises and blessings

A. Patriarchs
1. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and 12 sons

B. Nevi’im
1. Moses (Passover, Exodus and the 10 Commandments)
2. Kings (Saul, David, Solomon, Jeroboam and Rehoboam)
Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jonah

C. The Ketuvim

1. Job
2. Ecclesiastes
3. Wisdom
4. Psalms

Chapter II. God, the SON (Jesus) journeys with His people

A. John the Baptist

B. Mary, Mother of Jesus
C. Jesus as the fullness of God’s revelation (Creation story-Jesus as the New Adam)
1. Jesus and the Kingdom of God (total well-being of people) Jesus’ Preaching Ministry
2. Jesus’ Healing Ministry
3. Jesus’ Table Fellowship
D. Jesus’ love in his passion, death and resurrection

Chapter III. God, the HOLY SPIRIT journeys with His people
A. The Early Christian Community
B. Pentecost Experience Acts 2:1-11
C. Christian Community Today
1. Vatican II (LG, GS)PCP II (Renewed way of catechesis)

GRADING SYSTEM:

Class Standing 60%

Major Exam 40%

TOTAL: 100%

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 CORRESPONDENCE LEARNING MODULE
CFED 1013 (God’s Journey with His People)
AY 2023-2024

Lesson 1: Introduction to God’s Journey with His People

Topic: Introduction to God’s Journey with His People

Learning Outcomes: At the end of this module, you are expected to:
✔ Explain how the Church and the Missionaries emanated from God’s salvific plan.
✔ explain the core values that are embodied in the CICM-Philippines School
Network Vision-Mission;
✔ identify the core values of the University and ways on how they live them as
students;
✔ write a “Personal Vision-Mission Life” to deepen understanding of mission and
vision

LEARNING CONTENTS:

God created all things, (world and the human persons). They were in “paradise” which means, there
was harmony, justice, peace, and joy. Despite the very good conditions of life that they were in, the first human
beings (“Adam” and “Eve”) still committed sin.

SIN

Father: --------------- --------- Mission: ------------Salvation (O.T.)

Abraham

Prophets
Priests
Kings

God Jesus ---------------- Mission: ------------Salvation / Kingdom (N.T. Gospels)

(Son)
(way, truth, &
life)

Church -Mission: -------------Salvation / Kingdom.

(Holy Spirit) (N.T. Acts of the Apostles
and the Letters/Epistles)
Apostles/Disciples

Jerusalem Rome (Roman Empire World) Whole world

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Sacrament: means channel, representative, visible sign of an invisible reality

GOD JESUS CHURCH

The Sacrament of God is Jesus and the Sacrament of Jesus is the Church (John 20:21, Acts 1:8)
The Church started as a religious renewal “movement”/group in Jerusalem, Israel by no other than Jesus Christ. Jesus
grounded the Church on the foundation of the Apostles and it spread from Jerusalem to the Roman Empire world until
throughout all the earth.

The first “name” of the Church was The Way (Acts 9:2), the members of the Church were called Christians in Antioch
(Acts 11: 26). The Church was persecuted by the Roman Empire (which was still pagan) until the Conversion of the Emperor
Constantine in 313 AD which paved the way for Christians to infiltrate Rome until Christianity was declared as the official
religion of the Roman Empire in 380 A.D by Emperor Theodosius.
Way back in 45 A.D, the first apostle who went to Rome and started the Church there was no other than Peter. Later,
reflecting on the mission of Jesus which He passed on to the Church, the Church’s official “name” or title evolved into: One,
Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic in 325 A.D. In 382 A.D., under Pope Damasus, the Church compiled the Sacred Scriptures
and later will be called Bible by Pope Siricius befpre the end of the 4th century A.D.

From the Church developed the Hierarchy (Bishops, priests, and deacons – with the Pope as the overall head for the
sake of division of work and maintaining the unity of the Church while it spreads the Kingdom of God on earth.

From the Church comes the different “kinds” of priests according to spirituality or mission area.

a. DIOCESAN
- a term use for priests serving their local places;
b. MONKS
started in the 3rd century AD in Egypt and in Syria with a life of simplicity or asceticism. Monks who are composed of
sisters (not priests) only came out later. Example of few monks in Cagayan who are sisters are those at the St. Claire
monastery in Iguig.

c. MISSIONARIES
- are group/community of priests who really want to go to serve remote places not yet evangelize.

Some examples of missionaries are the following:

c.1. The Dominicans who was founded by St. Dominic in Prouille, France in 1216. (Dominic was a Spanish
priest).
c.2. The Augustinians which started in 1244 in Italy (group or no specific founder).
c.3. The Jesuits or called Society of Jesus who was founded in 1540 by Ignatius of Loyola, formerly a Spanish
soldier who became priest.
c.4. The CICM and other missionary groups only came out later.
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 The CICM was founded by a diocesan priest Theophile Verbist in 1862 in Scheut, Anderlecht, Brussels,
Belgium. CICM is just one of the missionary groups which is an arm of the Church for evangelization.
One of the strategies for missionaries to evangelize people especially the youth to prepare them to become also evangelizers
in the future is to establish schools. With this, the missionary schools and even in the schools established by the local Church,
the core of the curriculum is the Christian Faith Education of the young (children to college). In a wider sense, the Christian
formation of the Community who are in the school. The CICM established schools for such purpose.
Here at the University of Saint Louis, our motto for us to always remember this is “Mission and Excellence” and among the
core values of our University’s Vision-Mission, the first is Christian Living.

CICM
Philippines School Network: Vision-Mission
At the initiative of the Father,
Sent by the Son,
Guided by the Spirit,

Inspired by Theophile Verbist our founder,

Who heard the call of the Lord
And left his country USL’s VISION, MISSION,
To proclaim the Good News in China,
AND CORE VALUES
Enlightened by those who preceded us
And who – like our founder-
Left their familiar surroundings VISION
To follow Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Word USL is a global learning community
By integrating themselves into a foreign culture, recognized for science and technology across all
And by living in solidarity with another people,
disciplines, strong research, and responsive
Enriched by those we serve, community engagement grounded on the CICM
Especially the poor who reveals to us mission and identity for a distinctive student
the sin of the world experience.
And who help us discover the true meaning
Of God’s plan of love,

We CICM missionaries
Of different races and cultures MISSION
Live and work together as brothers
In order to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ USL sustains a Catholic academic
Wherever it is most needed. community that nurtures persons for community,
church and society anchored on CICM’s Missio
We achieve our mission et Excellentia.
When we facilitate
The encounter between Jesus Christ and the
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Our mission includes
Enabling people
To experience the coming of the Kingdom
 The University of Saint Louis upholds the philosophy that education is for building of self and persons
for the Church and the Society. Wisdom builds. To these ends, the following are the core values of University
of Saint Louis; integral in the formation of every member of the Louisian community.

a.CHRISTIAN LIVING c. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

We are committed to efficiently and

We are witnesses to the Gospel
responsibly apply the learned principles,
values as taught and lived by Christ
values and skills in the chosen field of
thus making God’s love known and
discipline, taking initiative and command
experienced by all.
responsibility in one’s professional
advancement.
b. EXCELLENCE

We are witnesses to the Gospel values d.SOCIAL AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT

as taught and lived by Christ thus
a. We engage ourselves with society by listening to
making God’s love known and
the prevailing issues and concerns in the society,
experienced by all.
thereby initiating and participating in constructive
and relevant social activities for the promotion of
justice, peace and integrity of creation and for
We keep ourselves relevant and
people’s wellness and development consistent with
responsive to the changing needs of our
the CICM charism.
stakeholders by being flexible, solution
oriented, and having cutting-edge
decisions and practices.

b. INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND AGILITY

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REFERENCES

Textbooks
Morgan, G. C. (1912). Living messages of the books of the Bible: Old and New Testments. New York: Fleming
H. Revell.

YOUCAT english: Youth cathecism of the Catholic Church. (2011). San Francisco: Ignatius Press.

Becoming a Household of God in the Old Testament (150 years of CICM in the Philippines) by CICM Philippines

Online Reference

Fairchild, M. (n.d.). The Seven Days of Creation: What Happened on Each Day? Retrieved August 11, 2020,
from https://www.learnreligions.com/the-creation-story-700209

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