REL ED LESSON 1 1stq

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY OF DANCALAN, INC.
The Origin of the Church
OBJECTIVES:
Imagine!
Do you know the origin of your family? Do you know the names of your great ancestors? Do you know where
and how they lived before? This
Word of God
"So I now say to you: You are Peter and on this rock I will build my community. And the gates of the
underworld can never overpower it" -Matthew 16:18
REFLECT
CCC751 The word "Church" (Latin ecclesia, from the Greek ek-ka-lein, to "call out of") means a convocation or
an assembly. It designates the assemblies of the people, usually for a religious purpose. Ekklesia is used
frequently in the Greek Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for their
assembly on Mount Sinai where Israel received the Law and was established by God as his holy people. By
calling itself "Church," the first community of Christian believers recognized itself as heir to that assembly. In
the Church, God is "calling together" his people from all the ends of the earth. The equivalent Greek term
Kyriake, from which the English word Church and the German Kirche are derived, means "what belongs to the
Lord."
CCC752 In Christian usage, the word "church" designates the liturgical assembly, but also the local community
or the whole universal community of believers. These three meanings are inseparable. "The Church" is the
People that God gathers in the whole world. She exists in local communities and is made real as a liturgical,
above all a Eucharistic, assembly. She draws her life from the word and the Body of Christ and so herself
becomes Christ's Body.
The two important words, namely, church and Christian would not have been known to the followers of Jesus
then, but their particular lifestyle became the starting point of the communities they organized, which served as
a strong foundation of the Christian Church today.
The Christian Church was considered to be inaugurated formally on the day of Pentecost.
Pentecost- comes from the Greek word he pentekoste, meaning 'the fiftieth day".
-commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit to the apostles.
- celebrated fifty days after the Easter.
Acts 2:1-4When Pentecost day came round, they had all met together, when suddenly there came from
heaven a sound as of a violent wind which filled the entire house in which they were sitting; and there
appeared to them tongues as of fire; these separated and came to rest on the head of each of them. They
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak different languages as the Spirit gave them power to
express themselves.
See it!
Learn about it!
Biblical Texts That Support the Idea of the Church as a Community

Acts 8:1 That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except the
apostles scattered to the country districts of Judaea and Samaria.
Acts 11:22The news of them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem and they sent Barnabas out to
Antioch.
Acts 9:31The churches throughout Judaea, Galilee and Samaria were now left in peace, building themselves
up and living in the fear of the Lord; encouraged by the Holy Spirit, they continued to grow.
The Kingdom of God

The church as the kingdom of God signifies the realization of the Old Testament's prophesies about the
coming reign of the Savor Jesus Christ.
Matthew 5:20 'For I tell you, if your uprightness does not surpass that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will
never get into the kingdom of Heaven.
The Mystical Body refers to the communion of all the people who live a holy life through the graces bestowed
by Christ, the invisible Head of the church. The believers included here are the members of the :
Militant Church the church still here on earth struggling with evils and is involved in spiritual warfare against
the devil.
Suffering Church the church of all the believers who have died but are still being purified in purgatory.
Church Triumphant the church of all those who have been victorious over evil inclinations and are enjoying
the eternal bliss in heaven.
Colossians 1:18"and he is the Head of the Body, that is, the Church. He is the Beginning, the first-born from
the dead, so that he should be supreme in every way;
Learn about it!
Christ Founded The Church

The church was instituted personally and immediately by Jesus Christ. During his earthly life, he set up all the
essential elements of the church rites and rituals, the teachings, and the constitutions. the prophets foretold
that the institution of the Church shall occur at the time of the Messiah, and that the Church is a community no
longer for Israelites but for all the people. this is the ushering in of the " New Kingdom of God".
Peter
and he took Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, 'You are Simon son of John; you are to be called
Cephas' (Peter) -- which means Rock. -John1:42
He was chosen by Christ as the first of all the apostles and as the visible head of the church. The consistent
placing of Peter's name as first among the apostles of Christ showed the dignity of his office.
He, together with James and John, was a witness to the transfiguration event, the agony in the garden, and the
awakening of the daughter of Jairus.
The following biblical texts support the role of Peter as the most important character in the events of
Jesus' earthly life.
Matthew 17:1-2Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a
high mountain by themselves. There in their presence he was transfigured: his face shone like the sun and his
clothes became as dazzling as light.
Matthew 26:37He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee with him. And he began to feel sadness and
anguish.
The Purpose of the Church
The ultimate goal of Christ in founding the church is to propagate his mission and to continue his work of
redemption for all time. While Christ gains the fruits of his work of redemption his own efficacy, the role of the
church is to share this grace of salvation to all mankind through the exercise of the threefold function bestowed
by Christ, namely, the prophetic role, the kingly office, and the priestly function. These roles make the church
to be Christ's continuing presence in the perpetually accomplishing his work here on earth in, action, and life.
Learn about it!
The Threefold mission of the church in relation to God's reign
Kerygma It is the task of the church to proclaim the Gospel and make the memory of Jesus alive in words and
signs, to remind the people of his continuous presence in the world, and to profess its hope in the unique and
creative manifestation of Christ in the future.
koinonia The church, in carrying her mission, must proclaim the message not only in words but more
importantly, in her lifestyle. She must be a living sign and a point of unity between what God is actually doing in
History and what man should do in responding to God's action.
Diakonia the church must serve as an instrument of unity in the world. Like Christ, who came to serve and not
to be served, the church must also be a servant community. She serves the people to develop their full
potentials in the realization of God's kingdom.
The Family: A Miniature Church
PCP II 421-422 The family is the church in the home. It is the primary community of Christ's disciples whose
members are bound together not only by ties of flesh and blood but also by the grace of the obedience to the
Father's will. Jesus began his work of salvation within the family, the holy family of Joseph, Mary, and Jesus
himself.
See it!
St. Lorenzo Ruiz

Saint Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino venerated in the Roman Catholic Church. Of Chinese-Filipino parentage,
he became the country’s protomartyr after his execution by the Tokugawa Shogunate during its persecution of
Japanese Christians in the 17th century. Lorenzo Ruiz was born in Binondo, Manila, to a Chinese father and a
Filipino mother, both Catholic. Needless to say, he learned the Chinese language from his father, while his
mother taught him Tagalog.
At a young age, Lorenzo served as an altar boy at the Binondo Church. He studied under the Dominican friars.
After a few years, Ruiz earned the title of calligrapher because of his skillful penmanship. He became a
member of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary. He married Rosario and they had two sons and a
daughter. The Ruiz family led a generally peaceful, religious and comfortable life. However, while working as a
clerk for the Binondo Church, Ruiz was falsely accused of killing a Spaniard. Thereby, he sought asylum on
board a ship with the help of three Dominican priests.
Lorenzo and some of his friends left for Okinawa on June 10, 1636, with the aid of the Dominican fathers.
Upon arrival in Japan, the missionaries were arrested and thrown into prison. After two years, they were
transferred to Nagasaki to face trial by torture. Ruiz and his companions faced different types of torture. On
September 27, 1637, he and his companions were taken to the Nishizaka Hill, where they were tortured, and
hung upside down. The method was supposed to be extremely painful, as victims were bound, with one hand
always left free so that they may signal their desire to recant, that would lead to their release.
Ruiz refused to renounce Christianity and died from blood loss and suffocation. His body was cremated, with
the ashes thrown into the sea. The cause of beatification of St. Lorenzo Ruiz was written by a respected
historian, Fr. Fidel Villarroel, O.P. Ruiz was beatified during Pope John Paul II’s papal visit to the Philippines.
It was the first beatification ceremony to be held outside the Vatican in history. St. Lorenzo Ruiz was canonized
by the same pope in the Vatican on October 18, 1987, making him the first Filipino saint. His canonization was
based on a miracle that took place in 1983, when Cecilia Alegria Policarpio, a two-year old girl suffering from
in-born brain atrophy was cured after her family and supporters prayed to Ruiz for his intercession. In Chicago,
St. Lorenzo Ruiz is enshrined at Old St. Mary’s Church.
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IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY OF DANCALAN, INC.

The Origin of the Church

Biblical Texts That Support the Idea of the Church as a Community

The Kingdom of God

Learn about it!

Christ Founded The Church

Learn about it!

The Threefold mission of the church in relation to God's reign

The Family: A Miniature Church

St. Lorenzo Ruiz

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