Go Dynamic For Christ

Go Dynamic for Christ Erwin Joey Cabilan I Can *I can live. I can love. I can reach the heavens above. I can right what is wrong. I can sing just any song. I can dance. I can fly and touch the rainbow in the sky. I can be your good friend. I can love you until the end. What took you so long to make me see? How lucky I am coz I can be Free to do the things I wanna do. What took you so long to make feel I can give love, a love so real What took you so long to let me know? (Repeat *) What took you so long to make you cry so I may know the reason why. I’m so lucky I can smile I didn’t know this for awhile! (Repeat *) Questions: 1. What are the words and phrases in the song that strike you most? 2. What do these words and phrases mean to you? 3. What is the message of the song for young people like you? 4. What are the things that you CAN do? 5. What are these for? Are these only for your own benefit? If these are not for your own benefit, then in what ways can these things be more meaningful? Deepening Each person possesses natural or acquired gifts. CAPACITY 2. When we encounter and relate with others, we come to discover that we are all gifted in a COMMUNITY setting. 3. These gifts must be nourished by mutual sharing. COMMUNION 4. Our mutual sharing of ourselves and of our gifts must be deepened by our constant YES to remain open to one another. COMMITMENT    

Our CAPACITIES are our tools. Our COMMUNITY is our strength. COMMUNION is our guiding principle. COMMITMENT is our response day by day.

But sometimes, we tend to misuse and abuse these values. Thus, these are clouded in the following expression:

 But are our capacities enough? We crave for more!  Can the community be our only source of security? We close the doors!  How can our communion be real and never self-serving, be a step forward for unity rather than for personal ambitions and self-gratifications? We compete!

 How generous are we in saying our YES to authentic human values, to the challenges that we face, to our community, to our country, to the Church and to God? We allow ourselves to be contaminated by what the world dictates!

Christian Message Word of God Mark 10:17-30 The young man is searching for meaning in life inspite of his observance of the Law. The question, “What must I do to share in the everlasting life?” (Mk. 10:17) also echoes the following questions: 2. The Answer of Jesus for him is in a form of an invitation. “There is only one thing that you must do. Go and sell what you have and give to the poor; you will then have treasure in heaven. After that, come and follow me.” (Mk. 10:21) DISCIPLESHIP  following Jesus  discipoloi = discipoloi = student, learner, docile (teachable)  student-teacher relationship  Christian perspective = discipleship is learning from Jesus in the way “He thinks, feels, acts and loves” (GS 22)  By calling us to be His disciples, He knows that we have the CAPACITY to follow after Him.  Our talents and abilities can be ways and means of following Jesus. DISCIPLESHIP  Oriented towards others. The presence of “others” is a pre-requisite in following after Him.  As we open ourselves to others, we come to know that they, too, are also called by Jesus to be HIS disciples.  The CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, then, is our community where reaching out to others in faith, hope and love is being put into life.  The BEC, a new way of being a Church, is God’s gift to the young. It is a Church within our reach. It is a “school” where our being disciples grow and bear much good fruit. DISCIPLESHIP  Journeying with others; with fellow young, with fellow youth leaders, with other BEC and Parish leaders  We can all enter through “the eye of the needle” because our minds and hearts are fixed to God’s Kingdom.  Our human and material resources are being used for better purposes so that the blessing we give and the blessing they received and vice-versa lead us to a life called BLESSED.  By embracing one another, we come to discover that this embrace of ours is God’s love that embraces us all. This is COMMUNION. DISCIPLESHIP  It is a life-long process. Each day we hear Jesus calling us to remain faithful to Him in the midst of the challenges of our time.  It is to be constantly renewed. In our success and failures, Jesus remains faithful. This is the starting point of renewal.  We, as a Church, is “semper reformanda” because Jesus is “semper fidelis”.  This is our CHRISTIAN COMMITMENT in season and out of season.

Christian Application Therefore, for us young Catholic lay leaders, the ultimate giver of meaning of our existence is CHRIST. Through Him, with Him and in Him………  Our CAPACITY is strengthened not by CRAVING TO HAVE MORE but the DESIRE TO BE MORE FOR MORE.  Our COMMUNITY is open to become the COMMON POINT in the midst of our DIVERSITY.  We nourish our relationships not in COMPETITION but in COMMUNION.

 Our COMMITMENT is being deepened by our perpetual thanksgiving to the Lord Jesus who is our ever faithful friend, brother, teacher and lover. Go dynamic for Christ!