VALUES & SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Metanoia:
Brokenness to Wholeness | Sinners to Saints | Bios to Zoe
Scriptural basis
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a
new creation. The old has passed away;
behold, the new has come.
-2Cor 5:17
Metanoia: A Call to New Life

μετάνοια
change of mind
change of heart
change of life
Metanoia: A Call to New Life

μετάνοια
A journey of
spiritual
conversion
  Living in SIN and LAWLESS
Old Life ways, and considered to be
DEAD.

Living as a SINNER when

following the ways of this world.

Considered as a HATER OF
GOD
 New Life in
But God loves us Christ
deeply. He is full of
mercy. So he gave us
new life because of
what Christ has done.
God raised us up with
Christ. (Eph 2:4-6)
Brokenness

Wholeness
Brokenness Wholeness
“What is life?
But a journey from
sickness to health,
captivity to freedom,
from brokenness to
wholeness.”
-Jean Vanier
I am not alone.
Because loneliness is
always with me.
#broken
 Brokenness
Sapagkat ako ay
tao lamang.. huhu…
The DEPTH of the
Human Condition
 Hindi lahat
nakikita mo…
“There’s more to see than can ever
be seen…” (The Lion King)
Eye love view ;)
Forgiveness

Reconciliation with
God
Others
Self
 Brokenness Wholeness
“Behold, I am making all things new.” (Rev. 21:5)

darkness to light, sin to grace, chaos to cosmos

 Brokenness Wholeness
“Behold, I am making all things new.” (Rev. 21:5)
From “the sick” to “the healed”
From “the broken” to “the made-whole again”
From “the oppressed” to “the delivered”
From “the bitter” to “the better”
From “the sinner” to “the forgiven”
From “the selfish” to “the selfless”
 Sinners
Saints
Sinners Saints
…with defects, imperfections, weaknesses,
shadows and struggles
The true life stories of Christian heroes resemble our own
experience: they fought and won, they fought and lost.
And then, repentant, they returned to the fray.”
-St. Josemaria Escriva
 Patient Endurance
“He that shall
persevere to the
end, he shall be
saved.”
-Matt 24:13
Habang may buhay,
may pag-asa.
 Bios Zoe

Life (existence) Life (definitive)

Verbo
 Bios Zoe

man is called to climb up the ladder of

being
- from bios to zoe.
madaling maging tao… bios
mahirap magpakatao… zoe
Pagpapakatao: taong kayang magmahal
 Bios Zoe
The New Life is the Life of Christ
And what is the Life of Christ?
The LIFE of LOVE.

The New Life (zoe) is the Life of

LOVE.
Warning: Nope... Not this transformation.
his transformation:
From selfish to selfless
SUPERMAN VS. DARNA
Metanoia: A Call to New Life

Looking at the example of the

saints, we can HOPE to be
transformed
 Metanoia: A Call to New Life
And in understanding
the invitation for man
to level up
from bios to zoe,

we are called to live a new life in Christ in a life of LOVE.

 1Corinthians 13:4-8
Love is patient, kind, without envy. It is not
boastful or arrogant. It is not ill-mannered nor
does it seek its own interest. Love overcomes
anger and forgets offenses. It does not take
delight in wrong, but rejoices in truth. Love
excuses everything, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things. Love never fails.
The symbol of love …
The symbol of loving presence is not the heart, but Jesus in the
EUCHARIST.

For the heart stops beating, but the God who is ever present in the
Eucharist never stops loving.
In the Eucharist
God wants to hang out with us.
Though we are sinners.

AND Much more:

He does not only want to spend time with us …

… but He wants to stay with us.

God knows …
We are hungry!!! And He wants to feed us.

Problem - - - do we go to Jesus to be fed?

WHAT ARE WE HUNGRY FOR?