Challenges of the Church for Philippine Grade 9 students in Catholic schools

1. THE
CHALLENGE
S OF THE
CHURCH

2. To appreciate the
Sacrament of
Reconciliation as
one’s way toward
renewal.
Worshi
p
Doctrin
e
To identify the
challenges that
formed the
church.
Morals
To relate the realizations,
commitments and practical
applications done by the
Church to one’s personal
life as a Christian.
Learning Objectives:

3. There is no need to renew ourselves. The
Holy Spirit is always there to inspire and
empower us.
This renewal concerns not only ourselves;
but by starting it with ourselves, we
become better Christians for others.

4. • Aggiornamento – a bringing up to
date; modernization
• Councils – legally convened
assemblies of ecclesiastical dignitaries
and theological experts for the purpose
of discussing and regulating matters of
church doctrine and discipline
Vocabulary
Words

5. What are the
challenges
faced by the
Church?
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6. It is good to note primarily that the
Church was left to be continued on by
the apostles and the disciples, though
it was Christ who instituted it.
After more than 2,000 years, the
Church continuously grows in
faith. Part of this growth contains
her struggles to keep on the path
that she is supposed to follow,
discerning the Will of God.

7. With all the challenges that
the Church has faced, God
through the power of the Holy
Spirit sends people as His
agents to respond to these
challenges. Through them,
the Church is able constantly
reflect upon itself to know
what needs to be addressed
and thus is able to renew
itself.

8. Whenever the Church fully discerns that
pressing concerns are very much
evident and rampant, it organizes a
council and one of the most significant
councils that was called upon was the
Second Vatican Council or more
commonly known as the Vatican II.

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Aggiornamento

10. Pope John XXIII
The Church seemed to be
left behind and people could
not feel and experience the
role of the Church in their
lives and in the society at
large. For this, Pope John
XXIII called for an
Aggiornamento. This, he
intended for the Church to
think over the Word of God
and look into the practices.

11. The pope also had a high hope that the Council would unite the Christians more
firmly. With that, many different hopes and expectations arose. Many different
forms of preparation happened as well between Pope John’s announcement in
1959 and the actual start of the Council on 11 October 1962.

12. What does
the Church
do?
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13. For the first time in its 2000-
year history, the Church
attempted a study and an
understanding of itself. That
internal study involved a more
overt return to its roots in
Scripture and its early apostolic,
sub-apostolic, and patristic
traditions. But it also began to
emphasis its humanity: the
Church is involved with the
world and not over and against
the world.

14. The Church shrugged
off its fortress mentality;
it strove to be more in
touch and in dialogue
with the world in terms
of other Christian
traditions, other faiths,
and the cultural, the
political and the
technical milieu in
which we all live. It
considered the true
boundaries of the
Church and the needs
of humankind.

15. The Council left an important legacy in
respect of the Church’s human, as well
as its divine, origins, and of itself as
“The People of God” on a human and a
religious pilgrimage. But in this divided
and newly dangerous world religion is
not always a self-evident good. Not
without reason, it is sometimes seen as
a cause of trouble and the connections
between religion and violence---in all
directions---are under more intense
scrutiny than ever before. Nevertheless
the themes of Vatican II relate overall to
individuals and their needs, and to both
the community and the ‘communion’ of
all humanity. Humanity is potentially the
Church.

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