Priestly Formation in the Asian Contexts: Application of the Church’s Teachings to the Philippine Church and Society

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· 발행기관 : 신학과사상학회
· 수록지 정보 : 가톨릭신학과사상 / 75호 / 173 ~ 209페이지
· 저자명 : 로델 E. 앨리건 신부

초록

To better understand priestly formation in the Philippine context is to set it against the background of the vision of the Church and society as inspired by the Second Vatican Council’s call for renewal. The general question that the Second Plenary Council grappled with in 1991 was: How can the Church be a more effective and credible evangelizer given the present pastoral situation of the Philippines? The general answer was: by being a renewed Church and by being faithful to its mission of integral evangelization.
“Integral evangelization” means that the Gospel of Jesus Christ has both eternal and temporal dimensions. Surveying the national situation, PCP II described the imbalances of the economic and political situation and saw these imbalances as reinforced by the negative features of our cultural life. From such situation PCP II proceeded to describe a vision of a society toward which the Church would carry out its task of social transformation. Such vision of Philippine society expresses the following values of the kingdom of God: freedom and sovereignty, human dignity and solidarity, primacy of morality in the social order, justice and love as driving force of development, respect for cultural values and traditions, common good as the goal, participation and service as responsibility, unity and diversity, harmony with creation and with God.
The general response of the Church to this vision is the vision itself and its fundamental components namely: church of authentic disciples, church of communion, a participatory church, church engaged in integral evangelization, an inculturated church and church of the poor.
In 2001, ten years after PCP II, the National Pastoral Consultation on Church Renewal (NPCCR) stated that the reading of PCP II is still valid and that the imbalances remained generally the same. The economic, political and cultural and religious problems remained the same. Nonetheless there were many significant advances like that of the BEC. In the spirit of PCP II to make the goals of renewal more simple the NPCCR drew up nine pastoral priorities for the Church in the Philippines namely: integral faith formation, empowerment of the laity toward social transformation, active presence and participation of the poor, the family as the focal point of evangelization, building and strengthening of participatory communities that make up the parish as a community of communities, integral renewal of the clergy and religious, journeying with the youth, ecumenism and religious dialogue and animation and formation for Missio ad gentes.
In 2012, the CBCP Pastoral Letter “Live Christ, Share Christ” challenged the Philippine Church and society for a renewed commitment in living out the Gospel in the light of the “New Evangelization” towards a meaningful celebration of the 5th centenary of Christianity in the Philippines (March 16, 2021). A nine-year journey for the new evangelization has been charted climaxing with the jubilee year 2021 as follows: integral faith formation (2013), the laity (2014), the poor (2015), the Eucharist and the family (2016), the parish as communion of communities (2017), the clergy and religious (2018), the youth (2019), ecumenism and interreligious dialogue (2020), and Missio ad gentes (2021).
From all these priorities comes the challenge to priestly formation in the Philippines and in the context of Asia namely: formation of authentic disciples, formation to community, formation toward participatory leadership, formation to servant leadership, formation to evangelical poverty, formation to mission, formation as a person of dialogue, formation to integral spirituality. There also lies the challenge of inculturation on priestly formation.

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