UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS
ECCLESIASTICAL FACULTIES
FACULTY OF SACRED THEOLOGY
THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
EXTENSION SERVICE & PASTORAL FORMATION PROGRAM
I. Rationale
Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ's faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.[1]
Those who with God's help have welcomed Christ's call and freely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to proclaim the Good News everywhere in the world. This treasure, received from the apostles, has been faithfully guarded by their successors. All Christ's faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.[1]
Learn it. Those who belong to Christ through faith and Baptism must confess their baptismal faith before men. The profession of faith summarizes the gifts that God gives man: as the Author of all that is good; as Redeemer; and as Sanctifier.[2]
Enliven it. It deals with the final end of man created in the image of God: beatitude, and the ways of reaching it - through right conduct freely chosen, with the help of God's law and grace and through conduct that fulfills the two-fold commandment of charity, specified in God's Ten Commandments.[3]
Act on it. It explains how God's salvation, accomplished once for all through Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit, is made present in the sacred actions of the Church's liturgy, especially in the seven sacraments.[4]
Pray over it. It deals with the meaning and importance of prayer in the life of believers. It concludes with a brief commentary on the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer for indeed we find in these the sum of all the good things which we must hope for, and which our heavenly Father wants to grant us[5]
Every Academic Year, the UST Ecclesiastical Faculties Community Development Coordinating Council through the Apostolate Committee of the Theological Society responds to the call of our Holy Father for a greater moment of grace and commitment to faith so as to invigorate it, purify it, confirm it and confess it.
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