INTRODUCTION TO
KERYGMA RETREAT
KERYSSEIN MEANS KERYGMA
(GK)
ie, PROCLAIM SHOUT OUT
PROCLAIM the Paschal Mystery of Jesus Christ :
We preach
3 REDEMPTIVE ACT AND
3 TITLES JESUS GETS
JESUS DIED AND HAS BECOME THE
SAVIOUR
JESUS ROSE AND HAS BECOME THE
LORD
JESUS IS GLORIFIED AND HAS BECOME
CHRIST
PROCLAIM > LORD JESUS
CHRIST, THE AUTHER OF LIFE
Salvation History is the essence of Bible.
Eternal Life is only in Jesus Christ & only
through Him we attain everlasting life.
Christ is not one among many Saviors. But
Christ is the only savior (acts 4/12).
So What is KERYGMA ?
EN. 22. (Pope Paul the 6th. 1975)
Says
“It is the Proclamation of the Person of
Jesus with clarity and conviction.”
To witness, with Testimony to JXt. With
one’s own concrete Christian life.
Subject of Proclamation
Christ’s Teachings
His Life, Promises, and the Kingdom.
And all the Divine Mysteries
If these things are not preached, the
actual evangelization is not taking place.
OBJECT OF KERYGMA
Training of Evangelizers for a new
Evangelization. Training is given in
Practical steps.
ONE TO ONE EVANGELIZATION TO
START ANOTHER SCHOOL OF
EVANGELIZATION
Training of Trainers of New
Evangelization.
2 Tim 2/2 “and what you have heard from
me through many witnesses entrust to
faithful people who will be able to teach
others as well.
Filled with Spirit, and by living a convinced
Xtian life (1Jn 1/1-4)
To bring all to Jesus Christ.
NEMO DAT QUOD NON HABET
AIM :
To teach a Christian to become a missionary
and help him to grow in Mission Attitude to train
others to establish the Kingdom of God.
Let us grow and help others to grow in this
mission Awareness. In order to Evangelize the
whole world we need to train a lot of
missionaries. First of all every Person should be
Evangelized.
Person to Person Evang.
600 cores (60 millions world population)(2 millions in
Ghana)
100 cores (10 millions catholic) If one Catholic evangelizes
one person in a day, within 5 days the whole world will
be evangelized.
Here we teach how to conduct out- reach Program – ie.
Person to person Evangelization.
Door to door
Evangelization
Based on: Bible, EN ( Evangelii Nuntiandi (Pope Paul IV 1975
RN ( Redemptoris Mission (Pope Jn. P. II 91’
EA (Ecclesia in Asia)
“ “
In all these what is resounding is the Basic
command – The great commission, Mt 28/18-20,
and
Mk 16/15-18.
Eph 4/11 : Different Ministries are there in the
church, Apostles, prophets, Evangelists, who
proclaim the good news, pastors Teachers who
strengthen the faith of the converted.
Now a days the number of Christians are
decreasing proportionally. In India 2.6 to 2.4 to
2.2 etc. Where as Protestants are growing
numerically at the cost of Catholics leaving the
Church> IN PNG;96% ARE CHRISTIANS IN
2000 AD.
ROMAN CATHOLIC -27%
EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH OF PNG19.5% UNITED CH-11.5% SEVENTH DAY10% PENTACOSTALS-8.6% ANGLICANS3.2% ETC.
HISTORY OF THE ORGIN OF
THE KERYGMA EVANG.
In 1979. Jose Prado Flores (Pepe) started a School of
Evangelization in Mexico centered for the Parish ministry
to give training to lay people to involve them in Evangelization
work. It was in Spanish and translated into English by Adrian
Commandeur in Melborne – HOW TO EVANGELIZE THE
BAPTISED (ESP. THE LAPSED Christians) – THE INTRIPID
EVANGELIZER.
Pepe and Fr.Emilian Tardiff went around in 26 diocese of Australia.
Fr. Joe Grech and Victor Farrugia spread the school of
Evangelization in 1997. In 1978 the same was conducted in
Bombay by Spanish Team. Ten People led by M\s. CC Alice
from Kerala attended this course and translated into Malayalam
and named it as ‘THE KERYGMA’ The whole course is based on
the theme in EN- 22. It is a good package and a good formula for
Catholic Evangelization.
Rom 10/13-17, “ For every one who calls on
the Name of the Lord shall be saved. But
how are they to call on one in whom they
have not believed? And how are they to
believe in one of whom they have never
heard? And how are they to hear without
some one to Proclaim him? And how are
they to proclaim him unless they are
sent.?
PROBLEMS TO TACKLE
Fr. Geeno Hendriques Cssr. said, “ A great Commission
has become an OMISSION. Now we do not know what
to say, how to say, where to start and where to end.
Here we have a METHOD ,very precise and convincing.
Joke : Old catholic lady chased the catholic evangelists with a broom.
1. A friend asked “have you become a protestant
did you get dipped in the water.
2. Through this course a Catholic learns how to
speak about God’s love Introduces Jesus
Christ as the Savior of all Human kind, the
Way, the Truth and the Life.
3. Person to person Evangelization Method is
used
4. Act 8/1-10. Philip, Eunuch the Ethiopian
John 4.
The Samaritan woman
Lk 19/1-10.
Zachaus
Jn. 3./1-10
Nicoodemus
Blind man at the Bethsaida.
DANGERS TO FACE IN THE
MODERN WORLD
1. Decreasing no. of Catholic
2. Systematic and Energetic sheep stealing of
protestants.
3. Looking for a God exp. (esp. Europeans)
Thus there is a crying need for the
Catholic Church for
RE EVANGELIZATION
OF THE BAPTISED.
Evangelization from within in order to be converted
Through good news for the benefit of the world.
NEW EVANGELIZATION (SVD
Charism)
Thus to create a Kingdom of Love what was
in the plan of Jesus Christ.
WITH NEW EXPRESSION (fruitful)
AND WITH NEW FERVOUR
HERE IS A NEW METHOD (simple in style, but effective)
To make alive and to have an active participation, we have Workshops
Animation and creativity, Audio visuals.
Explicitate the 7 truths through Indian cultural Art forms.
Word of God : Rom1/16, 1Cor9/’16, Phil4/13.
Preach to all types of people. Ez 33/ 7-9
COMPASSIONATE LOVE IS
THE SYMBOL OF THE
KINGDOM
Love is a healing medicine /
Deus Caritas
1. Agape
Est.
It is life giving.
Pope Benedikt XVI
Encyclicals.
Unconditional. Personal and the state you are.
2. storge
Rahamin
3. Philia
Love of friendship (Jesus and the Apostles love)
4. Eros :
First one.
Mercy (womb love. Love that shares the same womb)
That is Love bet, Man and woman which is neither planned nor
willed, but somehow imposes itself upon human beings was called
eros by the ancient Greeks. (only twice it is mentioned in the N.T).
1 Jn 3/14-17. We know that we have passed from death to life
because we love one another whoever does not love abides in
death. Hates Murderer. Murders have no eternal life. Christ laid
down his life. So we ought to love one another.
God loves you not because you are not good . But He is good. (Phil 2/6)
Allow yourselves to be loved by Him.
Egs. St. Vincent De’Paul and the Slave.
2 The thief caught by brothers at Night.
European girl and Mother Therese. See Christ in that person (a lepper)
EG.Mother Therese”s Biographer Malcom : 1000 $ Mother said even if you give m
$ 10,000I will not treat a leper.
I Jn 4\7-8
Experience this love and share it
with others
Eg. Nicky Cruz of US. And David Wilkerson Evangelists.
Life giving Love:
Eg.: Armenian Earth Quake Mother and a child. Blood of
the thumb of the mother.
“Can a woman forget her nursing child or show no
compassion for child of her womb?
Your name is inscribed on my palm…….
.Is. 49/15-16.”Can a woman forget her nursing child or
show no compassion for child of her womb? Your name
is inscribed on my palm( Is. 49/15-16)
Love one another that everyone will know that you are my
disciples (Jn 13/35) EG.Mother Theresea and the Leper
Brahmin of Culcutta)
St.Maxmillian Colbe of Poland: a Franciscan priest, In Nazi
concentration camp Auschwitz Bullneck Fritsch a cruel