Charism in a Year

Missionary Families of Christ

We are going into the mind and heart of our Founder, Frank Padilla, and learning even more about the Charism of Missionary Families of Christ. What is the best way to do that? By going through all of his 52 books. We are going to discuss one book a week over the course of a year.

  1. 15 APR

    A COVENANT WITH GOD with Jepoy Meneses - Charism in a Year

    Our relationship with God as Christians is covered by a covenant. What is a covenant? It is not just an agreement. It is much more of a solemn promise, involving one’s very being. But in relation to the covenant between God and us, it is even more. A covenant is a deep intimate personal relationship, where God promises to be our God and accept us as His people. Throughout the Old Testament, we see that God initiated covenants with man. With Noah (Gn 9:9)With Abram (Gn 17:7)With Isaac (Gn 17:19)With Israel (Ex 19:5-6) God’s original intent in creating man was to share His life and His love. God created Adam and Eve, and gave them dominion over the rest of His creation (Gn 1:28). However, they failed God and paradise was lost. God now sought to continue with His original intent, to share His life and love with humanity. This time, God would impress upon man the importance of His relationship with them. In calling Noah in preparation for a new humanity, God told him of what was to come, that He was starting over, and that He would establish His covenant with him (Gn 6:18). After the flood, God gave Noah and his sons the same commission He gave to Adam and Eve. “Be fertile and multiply and fill the earth.” (Gn 9:1b). “Be fertile, then, and multiply; abound on earth and subdue it.” (Gn 9:7). Then God established His covenant with Noah and his descendants after him. Covenant is all about God’s original plan and intent for the world!

    49 min
  2. 16 MAR

    THE NEW EVANGELIZATION: A WORK OF THE DIVINE FAMILY with RJ Moriones - Charism in a Year

    Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have sounded the call to the New Evangelization. It is a very urgent call. It is a call that recognizes the massive assaults on the faith during these times, and the onslaught of the tsunami of evil that is overwhelming the whole world. Now evangelization is not new. It is 2,000 years old. The Holy Spirit came down on Pentecost and the disciples of Jesus went on to evangelize the world. But after 2,000 years, the world is once again in darkness. What happened? Many Christians and Christian nations have succumbed to the deadly isms of the times—modernism, relativism, secular hedonism, materialism, consumerism, cultural Marxism. They have lost sight of the authentic Christian life. They are no longer witnesses to Christ in the power of the Spirit. The situation in the world has become critical. Faith has grown cold. The whole Church needs to rediscover the true meaning of evangelization, according to God’s principles. The way forward is the way of Pentecost, and the missionary spirit we see in the history of the early Church. Unless we put on the mind and heart of God in this work, we will end up just doing more of the same, and continue to lose territory to the enemy. We are in the end times, and how we respond will be crucial to preparing the bride of Christ for the coming of the Bridegroom. So now we go on an exciting journey, discovering the riches of the Spirit’s prophetic call to the New Evangelization. Let us be on our way.

    45 min

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We are going into the mind and heart of our Founder, Frank Padilla, and learning even more about the Charism of Missionary Families of Christ. What is the best way to do that? By going through all of his 52 books. We are going to discuss one book a week over the course of a year.