Sulo: Atenistang Kristiyano. Atenistang Pilipino.

Sulo: Ang pangatlong "Prayer Meeting" ng YFC
Naka-sentro sa pamagat ng "Patriotism"
Bakit Patriotism?

Speaker: Kuya Juno from GK Ateneo (AB IS '07)
Sharer: Nikka de la Cruz ( 2 BS CTM)
Worship led by: Ed Colmenares (4 BSM AMF)















Panoorin ang video:



Nagsimula tayo sa taong ito na may dala-dalang tema ng "apoy".
We are called to be a light to our communities through our lives, and we look for ways to be that light, centered of course on our love for God.

Sapagkat ang Agosto ay isang buwan na nakatuon sa pagmamahal sa bayan, naisipan naming magtanong kung ano ang silbi ng pagiging "apoy sa mundo" sa konteksto ng patriyotismo.

Talk by Kuya Juno (GK Ateneo, AB IS '07)
Continuity
Simula ng talk, may ilang bagay lang tayo na gustong balikan.
Maganda yung video presentation niyo kanina...nag-Ignite na pala kayo
Kasi continuity--the first part of the talk, noong tinitingnan ko ang Bible ko, alam niyo yun gverse ng Jeremiah? Jeremiah 1:5 (

³ Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you, a prophet to the nations I appointed you. (NAB)

Ang point nun, kayo ko sinimulan dun, Sa mga "Patriotism, patriotism...bago ka dumating dun, kailangan malinaw ang dahilan mo kung bakit mo 'to ginagawa"....It calls for a purpose. Kung wala kang dahilan, wala kang sentro...so ba't ka magiging patriotic sa bansa mo sa mga nakikita mo dito. Bago pumunta sa mga GK, simulain natin sa pinakasimula. Balik tayo sa Diyos.

Purpose
Noong tinatawag tayo ng Diyos,kailangan may dahilan. Maging doktor, maging abugado, pulitko o ano man. Malalaman niyo rin iyon kung maglalakbay kayo sa buhay.
Isang bagay na malinaw sa akin, at malinaw sa inyong lahat ay ipinanganak tayo bilang Pilipino. Ito ang buhay na alam mo. Ito ang pagiging Pilipino


Call to Mission
Kung may nakita kang dahilan, may kapalit iyan...may mission yan. Sabi nga ng Diyos sa katapusan ng Matthew. ibibigay ko sa inyo ang authority na ibinigay sa akin, at gawing "disciples of all nations" ang mga taong makikisalamuha,

Matthew 28:19-20
Go, therefore, ¹² and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit,teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. ¹³ And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."

Jesus calls us.
Si Jesus palaging kasama ang mga tax collectors at prostitutes. "Pumaparty" siya kasama nila.
Yan din ang sinabi sa mga disipulo noong umakyat siya sa langit.....kaya kayo, makihalubilo kayo sa mga tao. Ibigay niyo sa kanila ang mabuting balita na ipinahagi ko sa inyo. Iniinvite talaga tayo palagi sa mission.


CHRIST-ians: We bear the flag of Christ
Tayo kasi, sinasabi natin na Christian tayo. Kunin niyo ang i, a, n. Pansinin niyo, dinadala natin ang title ni Kristo.
May kapalit iyon.
When knights go into battle, dala-dala nila ang flag ng king nila, ganun din sa atin. Christians. Kaya kung Kristiyano ka, dinadala din natin ang bandila ni Kristo. That's our mission.
Apart from sa magiging doctor ka, magiging lawyer ka, maging pulitko or watever, Di natin masabi kung ano ang specific [mission] pero may pundamental bagay sa lahat na nandun, na una, ginawa tayo ng Diyos, pangalawa, binigyan tayo ng mga talents, kaya may vocation tayo.

Down from the Hill
Yun yung part tungkol sa pananampalataya natin
...Baba tayo sa mundo. Sabi nga natin 'down from the hill', diba"

Alam natin na lumalaban ang Georgia at Russia ngayon...
Alam din natin na may parte ng mundo na walang makakakain
Ito'y mundo na maraming krimen.
Ipinanganak tayo dito sa mundo na may sakit, maraming problema, kasama din dun
may patutunguhan din tayo dun...

Huwag palakihin masyado ang pananaw, tingnan niyo muna ang bansa.

In GK, we have a battlecry of GK 777.
700,000 homes, 700 communities, in 7 years.
Nagtayo ng 30,000 homes
Magsi-7 years na, we built a lot of homes...but now we're playing around a new number.
Alam niyo yung 5 million?
5 million malaki-laki na.
Some of you might earn it.
Paglabas niyo ng college, baka first paycheck niyo, 5 million.
Sana lang, diba!
Anyhow, 5 million, ano kahalagahan nun?
5 million ang mahirap sa bansa natin, nagtayo tayo ng 30,000 homes, 700 communities.
Kapag nagdala ako ng mga foreigners sa mga GK sites, sa Payatas ko silang nililibot. Nagugulat sila palagi kapag dinadala ko sila diyan...dumpsite yan eh. Sabi ng isa, "I've never seen anything like it. In my country, when we speak of poverty, we speak of 3-bedroom houses."

Tingnan niyo ang bansa niyo. Baba kayo sa mundo.
Sabi ng Ateneo come down from the hill. Punta kayo sa GK, sa Payatas, at diba may area kayo sa Malanday Marikina?
Ayun. Yun yung broken wounded world.

Who is my neighbor?
Alam niyo naman yung Good Samaritan na story diba?
Nagsisimula ang kwento na iyan noong itinanong si Jesus ng "Who is my neighbor?" That's the next question for us.
Pagbaba mo sa mundo, nakita mo ang Payatas, ang Nueva Ecija, ang Malanday...who is my neighbor?
Ano ang kwento ulit?
May binugbog, naiwan siya sa kalye tapos may dalawang tao, naiwan siya....tapos Levite...tapos may Good samaritan. Iyon yung nagtulong sa kanya.

I've been reflecting that for the longest time.
Actually pwede mo naman tawaging neighbor ang Levite..tsaka neighbor mo rin yung priest.
Bakit? Kasi wala silang pakialam...
We are a wounded world. Mga tao din na natatakot sa mundo. We Fear. We're afraid.

Sila rin kailangan ng tulong.
Lahat ng tao kasama mo.
kahit mataas o mababa

But how can you love people? How can you love the people who do not care?

Lagyan mo ng mukha ang mga tao
Put a face to the people around you.
Lagyan mo ng mukha.
Paano ka maging patriotic kung walang mukha ang mga taong tinutulungan mo?
What are you doing and what is this for?
Ano ang punto ng pagiging patriotic kung di mo naman kilala ang mga taong pinagsisilbihan mo?

Lagyan mo ng mukha.

Patriotism...pagbaba sa mundo.
Ano ang kaya kong ibigay?
we are Ateneans. Marami tayong pwedeng ibigay.

Go down from the hill.
It's good to be there. But go down. At the very beginning of our being Christians, we were always missionaries, we meet the darkness as a cutting edge, we do not shy away because we believe God is with us.

The interesting thing is that some of the people who are helping us are the Mormons, the Evangelicals, and we're all here together because we're all Filipino. We all believe in God.

Pilipino ka. Dito ka nilagay. Bayan niyo pa rin 'to.
Ito ang binigay sa inyo ng Diyos. Ba't di niyo kayang alagaan? Alagaan niyo.
Pag gumradweyt kayo sa Ateneo, pipilitan kayong lumabas. Pipilitan kayong bumaba..
Ang GK isang paraan lng iyon, hindi lang iyon yung tanging paraan, pero isa kami sa mg paraan na pwede niyong harapin ang hamon na iyon.
Pero kilalanin niyo kung saan kayo tinatawag.

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Ablaze: July Prayer Meeting

How was life like in YFC?
How did you grow in this community?
What is your commitment to God?

Some of us came from the Love Team Youth Camp, and the thrill of renewing a relationship with Him was still there. Some of us have been in this community for years, but yet it is still essential for us to ask how committed we still are to God.

Love compels us to grow, this we believe in. We are consumed by His love. And that must compel us to live well, and to live with a commitment of love for Him.

What's your commitment?

Speaker: Osep Reyes 3 AB Comm (AVP for Evange)
Sharers: James M, 2 BFA ID | Chelsea Ballesteros, 2 AB POS | Red Bernaldez, 4 BS MIS
Worship led by: Jake Flores, 4 AB POS

NEXT ATTRACTION

AUGUST PRAYER MEETING
August 13, 2008
430-6pm
TBA

Ignite! Sharing and Blessing From Fr. Bob Buenconsejo

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YFC-A invited Fr. Bob Buenconsejo, director of the Campus Ministry Office in the Ateneo Loyola Schools to give blessing to the members in the Ignite Prayer Meeting. Below is his sharing on what the impact of the YFC-Ateneo Prayer Event and his prayer for the community this year.

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FR. BOB'S THOUGHTS AND SHARING:

Look at Jesus

I was asking Cash earlier if you in fact knew the theme for the Jesuit General Congregation. One of the most important decrees there is the "Fire that kindles the Fire", and so I was quite pleasantly surprised that your theme is Ignite…That is precisely the theme of the General Congregation. It's asking the Jesuits to look at Jesus. Because it is only in looking at Jesus that you will find out who you are…today I think what you are doing is to look at Jesus so that your hearts will be aflame and that is my prayer to you.

Surprised at YFC-A

...I was so wonderfully surprised to see you here. Because I thought Ateneans are already losing their faith. And one of my greatest, greatest pains is that in a Christian University, a lot of our students are dying the light of Faith. A lot of our students become agnostic, some have [even] openly expressed their atheism. And it's so sad. This is a Christian University with the opportunity of learning the Word of God and yet many of our companions, many of your batch mates [and] we're not making a judgment here, but there is so much hostility towards God and it saddens me. But the fact that you are here gives me a bright light. You are a beacon of light here in the University.

Prayer:

Close your eyes and focus them on Jesus. Look at Jesus. Look into His eyes. If you can, imagine Him embracing you, imagine Him right there beside you, in all of your tiredness, in all of your feeling of unworthiness.

Loving Father, I want to thank You for calling this Ateneo Youth For Christ.

For Gathering Them in their youth, in their struggle against a very secularist world

I praise you Lord because You have gathered these children of yours

Lord Jesus, your Son, said in the Gospel of John, "I consecrate them to You Father" and I consecrate these young people, these young minds, these young hearts to you.

Loving Father, I beseech you to enkindle in them a fire of great love for You

In the midst of their lives where their spirits have dampened

Where their spirits have drooped

Where their spirits have fallen apart

I ask You Lord to heal them

I ask You Lord to mend their hearts

And I ask You Lord to give them a vibrant sense of Faith

A Dynamic Sense of Service

A Desire to Love, Worship and Serve You

Loving Father enlighten them and keep them ablaze with your love

And loving Father

Keep them from harm

Lord they're young but their hearts are full of enthusiasm

They're enthused with joy to love and serve you

They have such wonderful gifts...

Grant them the deepest desire of their hearts, Lord

As we Journey here in Ateneo

Keep them always faithful

Especially from that which harms their spirits

Lord, make their journey here in Ateneo bleed the very heart of Your Son Jesus Christ, our Lord

And may they always find you in the poor and in the needy so that in the end, their deepest desires, will find fulfillment in the very hearts of your Son whose heart burns for us.

And with the Almighty Father, I bless you in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen

As what Ignatius said to Francis Xavier

Inflamate et docete

"Inflame the world with love and teach the good news"

God bless you all!

Ignite!: Prayer Meeting 1

This Prayer Meeting is about excitement. It’s about thrill. Where is the thrill coming from? It comes from the great circumstance that we are in—the fact that we are facing a blank page. The fact that we have, once again, great power in our hands to make choices and start anew to get us to where we want to be.

We all have goals in our hearts right now. Getting to that Dean’s List, beefing up the resume, finishing our thesis, passing this Prof, trying out in this org, finally telling her how you really feel, so on and so forth. It’s great to approach the start of a new semester with a burst of excitement burning in us. With a fist of passion ready to ignite and consume what we are to do.

It is a question that we can ask ourselves too. Is there something burning inside us? What is it? Why?

In YFC-Ateneo itself, there is also a fire that is bound to become great! We have started the year looking forward with great promise. We dreamed big for this community this year, and we are confident and hopeful for the dreams to be realized. Guys and girls, brothers and sisters, the vision of YFC this year is to live as a community that will inspire people in sharing God’s love throughout Ateneo. Because you guys are here marks the fact that you recognize the importance of God and that you are personal witnesses of His love. You felt it, you experienced it. In your lives, among this group of people, in your families perhaps, in this school. Receiving something so great deserves to be shared, and guys, as Youth for Christ, we have the role of sharing the fire in us. More than letting the passion help us blaze towards where we have to go, it must also blaze to be a light for others in our world.

At this point, you may be thinking “Oh no all of these seem to be idealistic talk again. Why am I hearing it once more?”

Well because we do have to hear it again. We do have to be reminded that after all is said and done, if we ask ourselves, what makes our heart burn, at the very core, there needs to be only one answer—Our Lord God.

God must always be the center. God must always be at our core.

We have made it a point this year to gear all our endeavors and our actions so that we as Youth for Christ will effectively be that “idealistic light”. We have our service areas. Nothing sparks more inspiration than using our time for service to our little kids in the area. Our upcoming Youth Camp in July—you guys remember the youth camp right? That’s really our spiritual reflection in YFC, where we really assess our relationship with Him. Of course, our monthly prayer meetings and your household families. Take your time to know your household family because they are in essence that—your family here in Ateneo. Be that light for them. Be that light for everyone.

In final words, we are called to be simply one thing:

To be a youth for Christ.

Not an org member. But God’s young disciple and follower.

To be for Him and with Him in everything.

Eph 5:8 For you were once in darkness, now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness, righteousness and truth.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam

Speaker:Noreen Bautista (VP for Evangelization)
Sharers:Krz Lopez (YFC-A Junior Sister), Marco Ordoñez (Executive Vice President, YFC-A), Cash Maghirang (President, YFC-A)
with Fr. Bob Buenconsejo (Director, LS Campus Ministry Office)
Worship led by: James Pareja (AVP for Special Projects)

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