2. POPE BENEDICT XV1 IN HIS APOSTOLIC LETTER
“PORTA FIDEI” THE YEAR OF FAITH –
OCT 11, 2012 TO NOV 24, 2013
A RENEWED CONVERSION
TO THE LORD JESUS AND
THE REDISCOVERY OF FAITH

4. WHAT THE CATHOLICS SHOULD KNOW -1
 APOSTLES CREED
 MARIOLOGY 1 & 2
 SACRAMENTS
 WORKS OF MERCY
 THE BEATITUDES
 MISSION, PRECEPTS OF THE CHURCH
& MARKS OF THE CHURCH

5. WHAT THE CATHOLICS SHOULD KNOW-2
 SOURCES OF KNOWLEDGE –JESUS CHRIST
 ECUMENISM
 TEN COMMANDMENTS
 GIFTS AND FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
 THEOLOGICAL AND CARDINAL VIRTUES
 THE EUCHARIST

6. JESUS CHRIST, THE
LORD
WITH MANY EYES AND FACES
*
HE DIED ON THE CROSS
TO REDEEM MANKIND
FROM SIN

7. KNOWLEDGE OF ECUMENISM
OUTLINE
 DEFINITION
 OBJECTIVES
 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH
 VATICAN II
 ORTHODOX CHURCH
 ANGLICAN CHURCH
 PROTESTANTS
 PRAYER FOR UNITY

8. ECUMENISM
 “ THE MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIANS AND THEIR
CHURCHES TOWARD THE UNITY WILLED BY
CHRIST”
( Catholic Word Book, Knights of Columbus)
 VATICAN II CALLED THE MOVEMENT:
“ THOSE ACTIVITIES AND ENTERPRISES
WHICH, ACCORDING TO VARIOUS NEEDS OF
THE CHURCH AND OPPORTUNE OCCASIONS,
ARE STARTED AND ORGANIZED FOR THE
FOSTERING OF UNITY AMONG CHRISTIANS”
(Decree on Ecumenism, No. 4)

9. PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE PROMOTION OF
CHRISTIAN UNITY
ECUMENICAL INITIATIVES AIMED AT:
 “RESTORATION OF UNITY AMONG ALL CHRISTIANS”
 ALL OF THE BAPTIZED WILL REAFFIRM THEIR FAITH IN
CHRIST
 COMMUNICATE EXPERIENCES OF FAITH AND CHARITY
TO THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF OTHER RELIGIONS

10. THE LORD’S PRAYER

11. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
 ONE, HOLY, CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH,
FOUNDED BY CHRIST HIMSELF
 ECUMENISM TAKES AS STARTING POINT THAT
CHRIST FOUNDED JUST ONE CHURCH –THE ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHURCH
 STUDY & DIALOGUE WITH OTHER CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES THE ORTHODOX AND THE PROTESTANTS,
TO BE REUNITED WITH ONE CHURCH
 PURSUIT OF UNITY HAS BEEN SINCE THE BEGINNING
EVEN BEFORE VATICAN II THE PRINCIPAL OF THE
CHURCH

12. THE VATICAN – THE HOLY SEE

13. VATICAN II ON ECUMENISM
 RENEWAL FROM WITHIN AS A “GENTLE INVITATION
TO SEEK AND FIND THAT UNITY FOR WHICH JESUS
CHRIST PRAYED FOR THOSE SEPARATED FROM THE
HOLY SEE”
 AGREEMENTS ON BAPTISM,MINISTRY AND
EUCHARIST ACHIEVED WITH ANGLICANS
 RECONCILIATION WITH THE ORTHODOX CHURCHES
REALIZABLE - DIFFERENCES ARE NOT GREAT
 “CHRISTIANS MAYBE ENCOURAGED TO SHARE IN
SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCES AND
HERITAGE COMMON IN A MANNER AND TO A
DEGREE APPROPRIATE IN THEIR PRESENT DIVIDED
STATE”

14. RELATIONS WITH ORTHODOX CHURCHES
 THE CATHOLIC CHURCH RECOGNIZES ALL OF THE
ECUMENICAL OR GENERAL COUNCILS FROM NICAEA I
(325 AD) TO VATICAN II(1962 -1965)
 THE ORTHODOX ACCEPTS ONLY THE FIRST SEVEN (
NICENE CREED COMPLETED ON THE 7TH )
 DIFFERENCES ARE ON TERMINOLOGY NOT ON
SUBSTANCE
 BOTH RECOGNIZES THE LEGITIMACY AND RIGHTNESS OF
EXPRESSIONS OF FAITH AND RESPECTS PREFERENCE OF
LITURGICAL LIFE AND PIETY
 RECONCILIATION WITH THE ORTHODOX CHURCHES
APPEAR TO BE OF GREATER POSSIBILITY.

15. KING CONSTANTINE AND THE NICENE CREED
 PAINTING
IC ON DEP IC TING THE E MPER OR CONSTANTINE (CENTRE)
AND
THE B ISHOP S OF THE F IRST COUNC IL OF NIC AE A (325)
HOLDING
THE NICENO–C ONSTANTINOPOLITAN CREED OF 381 .

16. REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION
Division between the Eastern and Western Churches in in Europe
Atlas of the Historical Geography of the Holy Land

17. DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH

18. RELATIONS WITH THE ANGLICAN CHURCHES
HOSTILITIES E BY THE ROYAL SUPREMACY OF KING HENRY VIII- (
 C EMANCIPATION RELIEVED TENSIONS DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA
 POPE LEOXIII DECLARED THE ANGLICAN ORDERS ON APOSTOLIC
SUCCESSION AS NULL AND VOID. REAFFIRMED BY CARDINAL RATZINGER,
IN 1998 ASSERTING THE INFALLIBLE TEACHING OF THE CATHOLIC
CHURCH.
TTEMPTS AT DIALOGUE BEGAN IN 1915 UNTIL IT COLLAPSE IN 1925. BOTH
CHURCHES CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR UNITY
AFTER VATICAN II ARE ENCOURAGING. ANGLICAN BISHOP LED A
DELEGATION AS OBSERVERS IN VATICAN II AND ARCHBISHOP OFFICILLY
VISIT POPE PAUL VI
IN OCT 2009 POPE BENEDICT XVI INTENDED TO CREATE A STRUCTURE FOR
ANGLICANS ENTERING INTO FULL COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SEE.

19. PROTESTANTS USING MARTIN LUTHER’S BIBLE
Martin Luther/s 1534 Bible

20. RELATIONS WITH PROTESTANTS
 THE DIALOGUE WITH LUTHERIAN CHURCHES RESULTED TO
THE “JOINT DECLARATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF
JUSTIFICATION” IN 1999
 THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES PUBLISHED THE
DOCUMENTS ON BAPTISM , EUCHARIST AND MINISTRY IN
1082
 THE AIM OF THE DOCUMENTS WAS TO SEEK COMMON
GROUNDBETWEEN VARIOUS TRADITIONSCONCERNING
BAPTISM, EUCHARIST AND HOLY ORDERS
 CHURCHES WERE INVITED TO ANALYZE THE ECUMENICAL
IMPLICATIONS FOR CHURCHES AT A FUTURE WORLD
CONFERENCEON FAITH AND ORDER
 THUS THINGS LOOK OPTIMISTIC OF UNITY.

21. PRAYER FOR UNITY
 ROMAN CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE ON ECUMENISM ARE DEPICTED IN
“UNITATIS REDEINTEGRATIO(}UR) AND INPOPE JOHN PAUL II ENCYCLICAL
“UT UNNUM SINT’(UUS), VIZ:
 “--- THERE CAN BE NO ECUMENISM WORTHY OF THE NAME
WITHOUT THE CHANGE OF HEART”
• “--- PRAY TO THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR GRACE TO BE GENUINELY SELF-DENYING, HUMBLE , GENTLE IN THE SERVICE OF OTHERS, AND TO
HAVE AN ATTITUDE OF BROTHERLY GENEROSITY TOWARDS THEM”
 IN AN ECUMENICAL DIALOGUE, THEOLOGIANS “MUST PROCEED WITH
LOVE FOR THE TRUTH, WITH CHARITY , AND WITH HUMILITY”
 WHEN THE OBSTACLES HAVE BEEN OVERCOME, ALL CHRISTIANS WILL AT
LAST, IN COMMON CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST, BE GATHERED IN
ONE AND ONLY CHURCH IN UNITY WITH CHRIST IN
HIS CHURCH.

22. UNITY
CAN BE ACHIEVED THROUGH
THE EMPHASIS OF COMMON
BELIEFS VIZ:
JESUS CHRIST
HOLY TRINITY
RESURRECTION
CHRISTIAN LOVE