BAKAS NG KAGANDAHANG LOOB NG DIYOS (TRACES OF GOD’S LOVE)
A Proposed Inculturated Approach to Sacraments for Religious Education
Keywords:
TRACES OF GOD’S LOVE, Sacraments for Religious EducationAbstract
Our society, which is often centred on output and efficiency, has
made us so wrapped up in our daily grind that there seems to be very
limited time and opportunity to come together and celebrate our
human experiences as one community. Many of the rituals in our
Christian community have also become insipid and pointless because
many people could not find meaning in them nor could they
understand the sacramentality of their human and Christian lives.
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The thrust of Vatican II is not just aggiornamento (that is renewal/change) by considering the contemporary cultural experiences of people but also ad fontes,
that is go back to the original source of our Faith, Jesus Christ.
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