TABLE
OF CONTENTS
A. The Situation
1. A short history of Communication Foundation
for Asia (CFA)
2. CFA vision, mission and goals
3. The Second Plenary Council of the
Philippines of 1991 (PCP II)
4. The MSC spirit and mission
5. The theology of Communio et Progressio
B. The Pervading Questions
A. The Pastoral Animator, Pastoral Team and
Staff
B. Key Concepts and Terminologies
C. The Rationale/Aim of the Training
Course
D. The Time Frame
E. General and Specific Objectives
Chapter III
.
The Training Course (Retreat)
A. Three to Five-day Retreat: “Seeing the
Forest”
Session I. Rationale for the retreat
Session II. Jesus as communicator
Session III. Recalling and reliving each one’s life story
Session IV. Symbols, parables, and paradoxes
Session V. Sharing each other’s life’s story
Session VI. Appreciating the documents Communio et
Progressio, Aetatis
Novae, PCP II, and MSC
Constitutions and Statutes
Session VII. Towards CFA as a team, and as a community
B. One-day Recollections: “Seeing the Trees”
First Recollection
Second Recollection
Future Recollections
Chapter IV
.
Beyond the Training Course, Retreat and Recollections
Appendices
Appendix A
. “The essential is invisible to the
eyes”
Appendix B
. “Between Verbal and non-verbal: song and
music”
Appendix C
. Acts and Decrees of PCP II (pertinent
paragraphs)
Appendix D
. Pastoral Instruction Communio et
Progressio (pertinent paragraphs)
Appendix E
. Support for Family Religious Education
Appendix F
. Programs that may be developed for radio and
television in the
Archdiocese of Manila
Endnotes