Days of Learning, Years of Faith: Catholic Education and Faith Formation in Asia.

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 Have you ever
.

heard of

this thing called

‘The Lay vocation’ ? ? Page 2

Days of Learning, Years of Faith: Catholic Education and Faith Formation in Asia.
The Sangam Proposal: Exploring New Frontiers in Faith Formation in Asia

..
What do you

understand
it

to mean? Page 3
Try and GUESS !!!!!

what could
‘Lay
Vocation’

mean???
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The Goenkar boys
and the Jewish
boys

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Guess
what!

I too just
heard about it!!!
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The
Lay
Vocation
was spoken of
already in the
documents
of Vatican II
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Sadly the idea of the lay
vocation got somewhat
buried under all
the new ideas
that were
brought out
by Vatican II
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 Days of Learning, Years of Faith: Catholic Education and Faith Formation in Asia.
The Sangam Proposal: Exploring New Frontiers in Faith Formation in Asia

Go into all the world

‘ .

and proclaim the

good news to the
whole creation’(Mk
16: 15)
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 TO .

WHOM
IS
CHRIST
SPEAKING? Page 11
 .

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What do we
understand
by the word
‘VOCATION’?

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So vocation is
supposed to be
something

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If LAY PEOPLE
want to be
SPECIAL
what can they
do?
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Secular
Institutes.

Again
SOMETHING SPECIAL

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So lately to give
‘something’ to the
lay person we are
allowed to
distribute
communion, say
the prayers at
funerals or
graveyards etc. Page 17
Now they are also
talking of lay
deacons or rather
married deacons –
already happening
in South America
and also Mumbai.
‘Vocations’ are less
nowadays. Page 18
Archbishop Ivan
Dias ordains the
first ever
married men as
deacons in
Mumbai in 2006
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Again the

stress is

On being

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And one more thing: the
emphasis is on being
something special
IN THE CHURCH
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OKAY.

here are

two THINGS

THAT MIGHT

SURPRISE YOU:

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 Days of Learning, Years of Faith: Catholic Education and Faith Formation in Asia.
The Sangam Proposal: Exploring New Frontiers in Faith Formation in Asia

1. THE LAY VOCATION IS AS

SPECIAL AS THE
PRIESTLY OR RELIGIOUS
VOCATION

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 Days of Learning, Years of Faith: Catholic Education and Faith Formation in Asia.
The Sangam Proposal: Exploring New Frontiers in Faith Formation in Asia

2. THE LAY VOCATION

IS UNIQUE and
DIFFERENT FROM
THE PRIESTLY AND
RELIGIOUS
VOCATIONS....
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Let’s take the first
point

1. THE LAY VOCATION IS

AS SPECIAL AS THE
PRIESTLY OR RELIGIOUS
VOCATION

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Lay people, whose particular vocation
places them in the midst of the world
and in charge of the most varied
temporal tasks, must for this very
reason exercise a very special
form
of evangelisation....
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We are ALL called to serve Christ.
Go out to the whole world.....
Be ye perfect as your heavenly
father is perfect
I say to you.....
You are the salt of the earth
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To be called to
serve
Is this not something
special?
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It may not put me in the
limelight
BUT
It isn’t it
something special?
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Now for the second point

2. THE LAY VOCATION IS

UNIQUE and
DIFFERENT FROM
THE PRIESTLY
AND
RELIGIOUS
VOCATIONS....
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The priests
and religious
work for the

CHURCH
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You know Christ says, you are the
salt of the earth... You have to be
the leaven... ?

ALL of us have to be SALT

Right?
WHERE?
WHERE?
WHERE?
WHERE?

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As Pope Paul VI tells us:
we have to work in the vast and complicated world of

• POLITICS
• SOCIETY AND ECONOMICS
• CULTURE,
• THE SCIENCES
• THE ARTS
• INTERNATIONAL LIFE
• THE MASS MEDIA
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It also includes other realities which are
open to evangelisation:
• HUMAN LOVE,
• THE FAMILY,
• THE EDUCATION OF
CHILDREN AND
ADOLESCENTS
• PROFESSIONAL WORK
• SUFFERING.
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As Pope Paul VI tells us:

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What do you
think this
means?

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Paul VI says in 1975 in Evangelisation in the
Modern World 70

The more Gospel-inspired

LAY PEOPLE
there are engaged in these
realities ....
the more these realities will be at
the service of the kingdom of God

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How EASY
or DIFFICULT
is this?
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Easy or difficult,

Would you agree with me this is something

special?

Is it less special than the priestly vocation

Or the religious vocation?

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So NOW what is your answer going to
be when you are asked
‘Do you have a vocation’ ?

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What can I be the salt of the earth?
How can i be a witness – in my office,
factory, place of work, classroom, home...?
How can I live up to my vocation as a lay
person?

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The Vietnam Experience
The Church in Vietnam

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