WHO IS THE FILIPINO? | WHO IS THE FILIPINO CATHOLIC?

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FILIPINO?Who is the

The anak-magulang relationship is of primary importance to us Filipinos.

Ama, ina, and anak are culturally and emotionally significant to us Filipinos who cherish our filial attachment not only to our immediate family, but also to our extended family (ninongs, ninangs, etc.).

Who is the Filipino?

FAMILY-ORIENTED

Fond of Salu-salo or Kainan because Filipinos consider almost everyone as part of their family (parang pamilya), we are known for being gracious hosts and grateful guests.

Serving our guests with the best we have is an inborn value to Filipinos, rich and poor alike. We love to celebrate any and all events with a special meal. Even with unexpected guests, we Filipinos try our best to offer something, meager as it may be, with the traditional greeting: “Come and eat with us.” (Tuloy po kayo at kumain muna tayo.)

Who is the Filipino?

MEAL-ORIENTE

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The kundiman is a sad Filipino song about wounded love. Filipinos are naturally attracted to heroes sacrificing everything for love. We are patient and forgiving to a fault (“magpapaka-alipin ako nang dahil sa iyo”).

This acceptance of suffering manifests a deep, positive spiritual value of Filipinos’ kalooban.

Who is the Filipino?

KUNDIMAN-ORIENTED

We Filipinos are bayani-oriented. A bayani is a hero. We Filipinos are natural hero-followers. For all our patience and tolerance, we will not accept ultimate failure and defeat.

We tend instinctively to always personalize any good cause in terms of a leader, especially when its object is to defend the weak and the oppressed. To protect this innate sense of human dignity, Filipinos are prepared to lay down even their lives.

Who is the Filipino?

BAYANI-ORIENTED

We Filipinos are spirit-oriented. We are often said to be naturally psychic. We have a deep-seated belief in the supernatural and in all kinds of spirits dwelling in individual persons, places and things.

Even in today’s world of science and technology, Filipinos continue to invoke the spirits in various undertakings, especially in faith-healings and exorcisms.

Who is the Filipino?

SPIRIT-ORIENTED

“pueblo amante de Maria” __ a people in love with Mary. Even before the coming of the Spanish missionaries, there was a small dark image of the Blessed Virgin, known only as coming “from the sea,” venerated on the shores of Manila Bay.

Thus originated the devotion to Nuestra Señora de Guia, Our Lady, Guide of the Way, the oldest extant image of Mary in the Philippines

Who is the Filipino?

PUEBLO AMANTE de

MAria

1. Family –Oriented2. Meal-Oriented3. Kundiman-Oriented4. Bayani-Oriented5. Spirit-Oriented6. The “Pueblo Amante de Maria”

Who is the Filipino?

FILIPINO|CATHOLIC?Who is the

o We are first of all family-centered Filipinos who can easily talk to God the Father through His only begotten Son-made-man, our Lord Jesus Christ.

o Our devotion to the Sto. Niño and the Mahal na Birhen reveals fundamental depths of our own self-identity.

Who is the Filipino CATHOLIC?

FAMILY-Centered

Who is the Filipino CATHOLIC?o Secondly, we find meaning in our lives and

learn to face the hunger and poverty around us in encountering Jesus as Eucharist in our parish community (Fellowship/Communion).

o “Around the table of the Lord,” we Filipino Catholics are drawn by prayer to share our time, energy and very lives, for the service of our needy brethren and for the building-up of truly Christian communities of justice, love and healing.Communion

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Who is the Filipino CATHOLIC?o Third, as Filipino Catholics, because we have

met Christ the Suffering Servant in his Passion, we can pray about sin and forgiveness, about justice and reconciliation, about the suffering and Passion of our own Filipino people today.

o We have the strength to offer ourselves as “bread broken for the world,” together with Jesus, because we believe with unshakeable hope that the Crucified One is Risen from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the world. Sacrificing/

sanctifying

Who is the Filipino CATHOLIC?o Fourth, we Catholic Filipinos, resilient

as the bamboo (kawayan) and sturdy as the narra, commit ourselves to Christ, our hero-king, in deep gratitude for the gift of faith and for being Filipino. Our world vision as Catholic Filipinos is gradually transformed by Christ’s Spirit-in-the-world in our Church community.

Faithfully committed

THANK YOU!