Life Reflection with Father Mark ...

Back from the Church, i cant wait to return home, turn on my laptop, sitting in front of it and start writing /sharing information about Father Mark Formation Talk. It was a beautiful and mind working session... but what happens was, i lacked of writing idea's and ended up saving the post in my draft box. Here i am again trying my best, continue writing & editing what is necessary. Before jumping to what the Formation all about, let me introduce you to Father Mark...

This is Father Mark!! He is a young, good looking priest serving In St. Micheal Alor Setar Church. I never really have any direct communication with him yet. Most Of the time, i shared or whined things to Father Marshall the Parish priest. Normally, Father Mark ways of giving homily is relating the gospel reading with the real life situation and most of the time concerned more on personal development topic. (Well, Personal development is a general topic and i am slowly learning on it ... one of my way to really live with everyday personal growth / development is with doing a personal writing analysis based on PRH method ...http://www.prhaustralia.com/#!publications/c1zmy ... Writing it really help!!)

Now that you know Father Mark, lets jump to the Formation content that He highlighted in the session:- (**Note that this post consist of  Religion teaching since i am sharing about Life Reflection Topic in a Catholic way)

My Role & My Vocation:-

Being a Catechism teacher, teacher need to be clear about their role & life Vocation. It is because, what they plant today is what they harvest later. Whatever teaching they taught in class, act / values that they shown to the children, they will imitate & copy paste it into their life. 

"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ~James Allen~"

Having a role as a catechism Teacher is a very important task!! Fr. Mark highlighted Three things to shows if the teacher are  really into the Vocation:- 

1. Be willing to learn:- Have the continuous spirit to learn about God, to talk about god as a mystery. in fact we are learning everyday.

2. Love for the Children:- Love them as you love your own child. Children want to see a happy teacher. Show them love and appreciation & they will do the same to others.

3. Have an experience of God:- Most people "Know About God" and only few "Know God"... start asking question about what is your personal experience of God? Learn to do reflection & Discernment.

All teachers are paying attention to Fr. Mark session. Partner Sharing, Video showing & songs are the tools that being used during the session. Based on the video & Song , Teachers required to write and do some reflection based on 5 question given.. (Well will share to you what are the questions right after this)...Fr. Mark said, we need to ask those 5 question in our daily life in order to learn and grow...Learning process differ between ages, as an adult, we tend to learn on things that has something to do with our life ... things that interest us and effected our life!! 

Before i share on the five essential questions of Learning & Growing, let me share about the Technic of sharing during the session. The Sharing Principals itself totally not much different with PRH concept where, it is advisable to only share what had been written and listen attentively when others are sharing. (This is a very good way of practicing good listening skills). Here are the example of the questions given during sharing  activities:- 

* Write down one particular experience of God in your life. (Share it to your partner)
*In the sharing, what did you know about God? (From your Partner sharing)
* What did you discover about yourself? (From your sharing)
**This is also a way of doing reflection in our daily life**
Pictures of Sharing activities;-

"The delights of self-discovery are always available."~Gail Sheehy~

5 Essential Question of Learning & Growing (For Adult)

a) What new thing did i/you learn?

b) What did i find interesting?

c) How is it relevant to life?

d) How is it relevant to ...(What you are doing now? eg. Catechetics) 

e) What i didn't understand?

**Try asking and answering these questions in your daily life and you will see how much you progress and growing each day** 

2 Peter 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. 

~m3@~

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