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Will There Be Faith -
in Ireland?
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• Can’t presume “yes”• At end, Jesus wondered, “when I come again, will
there be faith?” (Lk 18:8)
• Challenging times for “faith on earth” - everywhere. Many
reasons
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Ours is a secular age (Taylor)
A separating of faith from life and a falling off of
religious practice because the cultural conditions discourage faith (e.g.
enlightenment) or offer alternatives (e.g. self sufficient humanism)
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In Church: scandals that reflect betrayal of Gospel
and Catholic faithDivisions, revisions and
tensions e.g. around Vat IIPervasive sense of
paralysis; elephants in corner but little we can do
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But: Self sufficient humanism not nearly as humanizing as a life lived in faith; for high times, low times, & everyday
Made in Divine image (Gn 1:27), alive by life of God (Gn 2: 7), we live more humanly by honoring our nature as spiritual beings
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• No better alternative than Catholic Christian faith – when at its best• Card Lustiger - A time for chosen faith: Will I have faith? • So much depends on what, why, and how we educate
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For Reflection and Conversation
• Your reasons to hope for Catholic faith in Ireland?•What will help to realize your hopes?
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• What Faith: In Jesus! New awareness of centrality of
Jesus to Catholic faith• Not the Bible, church, laws,
sacraments, dogmas, but “At the heart we find a
Person, the Person of Jesus of Nazareth, the only Son
from the Father” (CCC #426)
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• Jesus of History who walked the roads of
Galilee, calling people to live for reign of God
• Preached radical love – even of enemies; fed the
hungry, welcomed the marginalized
• Claimed to be “the way, truth and life” for disciples
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• Christ of faith, Son of God, among us as one of
ourselves; • By his life, death, and resurrection, conquered
sin, social & personal, and death
• By “God’s abundant grace in Christ Jesus” (1Tim 1:
14) we can live as disciples
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All preaching and teaching should "put people in
communion and intimacy with Jesus Christ” (GDC #80); present Christian faith as “full and sincere adherence to his person
and decision to walk in his footsteps” (#53) – disciples
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Jesus reveals God as: Ultimate Mystery, yet active among us
to effect God's reignOf love and justice, compassion
and peace, in partnership with us and for us
God is Love and in Love with us - unconditionally; Triune Loving Community calling us to so live
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“with us and for us”
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• Sends the Spirit: Ever present as God's effective
love – grace at work• Moving in our hearts and
lives – sacramentality of ordinary and everyday
• Inspiring to live in "right relationship" with God, self,
others, creation
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For Reflection and Conversation
• What does it mean for Irish Catholics to put Jesus at center of Christian faith?• What might persuade post-modern Irish to embrace Jesus as “way, truth, & life”?
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Why to Teach: Need a new* apologetic for Catholic Christian faith
Of persuasion not coercionOf conviction not submission
*Very old e.g. Justin Martyr
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Apologetics: to explain, defend, persuade to Christian faith
Aristotle: we need rhetoric of persuasion based on: Pathos (appeal to desire), Logos (to reason), Ethos (to the fruits)
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Re-centering Jesus lends:Pathos: can appeal to peoples needs, desires; e.g. for a full lifeLogos: reflect the reason and coherence of Catholic faithEthos: appeal to good fruits; e.g., happy are poor in spirit, just, etc.
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• Jesus’ sense of purpose: for reign of God; “for life of the world” (Jn 6: 51); for “life to
the full” (Jn 10:10)• “Good news to poor, freedom
to oppressed” (Lk 4:16-21)• For liberating salvation, personal and social; human
flourishing
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• How to Teach: Not only to teach Jesus and what he taught, but how he taught?• A bit naive in our time and place. But . . .• Our how should be consistent with the approach of Jesus’ public ministry
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• Catechists to imitate “the pedagogy of Christ” (GDC #140); to embrace Jesus’
approach as “the best model for communication of
the faith” (GDC #137)• Jesus described as “teacher”
and as “teaching” 150 times
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Reflection and Conversation• From your own sense of it, how would you describe Jesus’ pedagogy?• How might Irish catechists, teachers, and parents be consistent with his style?
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Jesus was: Welcoming and Inclusive: distinctive in his
outreach and radical inclusion Respectful of Learners: to
empower as agents instead of dependents
Favored Partnership with him and each other
Compassion and justice: centrality of reign of God
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Focusing on Jesus’ pedagogy as evident in explicit events, esp. the
parables, his overall dynamic was to lead
people from life to Faith to life
He did so by:
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* Engaging ordinary and everyday of people’s lives; fishing, farming, home
* To reflect on their reality, to question, often to “see” in whole new way
* Taught Gospel with authority (Mk1:22)* Encouraged people to see for
themselves, with personal conviction* Invited to decision – to follow his
“way” as disciples
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Invited people to share their own story and vision
Shared with them the Story and Vision of the Faith community
Brought them to “see for themselves” and to personally embrace Christian Faith
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The Road to Emmaus (Lk 24: 13-35): He joined their
company; heard their traumatic story and shattered
vision; retold the Story and Vision of faith community;
waited for them to personally “see”; they returned to
deepened faith Life to Faith to Life
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For Reflection and Conversation
• Insights, wisdoms emerging from example of Jesus?• Decisions for your own efforts to ensure “faith on earth” – in Ireland?
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Thomas Groome, Irish National Religious Education
Congress, Tralee, Oct 9th 2011 ([email protected])For further reading: see
Groome, Will There Be Faith (Harper, 2011) and Credo
series