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This College textbook is informative, stimulating, practical, contextual, and easily readable. It sparks students’ interest in studying the Catholic social teaching; it leads them to a more mature understanding of committed social engagement with the poor; it directs them to the discovery of the hidden Christ who “emptied himself and took the form of a slave” (Phil. 2:7); it connects or integrates their academic professional subjects and non-academic subjects to their Christian Faith; and it accompanies them to a committed and responsible engagement with labor and ecology. The ...

The journey toward discovering God in marriage begins with acknowledging the reality of marital drought. Chapter 1 explores this foundational step, offering a thorough examination of boredom and its spiritual significance. Marital boredom is a shared experience influenced by psychological, societal, and natural factors. While routines are inevitable, understanding their roots helps couples address them constructively. Biblical and theological insights reveal how God works through ordinary moments, turning the mundane into sacred opportunities. By reframing boredom as an opportunity, couples...

This book contains the relevance of the Catholic Social Teaching to the formation of the learners; it also provides different models of integrating the Catholic Social Teaching into the K - 12 Curriculum. The different paths and strands in the Academic track of K – 12 education program must be infused with the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. In order to form the learners to become citizens who are committed to working for the common good and to help them reflect upon the meaning of service wherein theory and practice come together in a context of ‘faith that does justice.’

"Vocation of Family" focuses on the concept of vocation and its application to the family. It discusses about the etymological and biblical meaning of vocation, distinction between general and specific vocation, and the vocation of the family. The vocation of the family is founded on the sacramental bond of marriage. Marriage and family are institutions created by God. God calls man and woman to these relationships. Man and woman are expected to respond freely to the call of God. One aspect of the family’s particular vocation is to inspire the children to discern and follow their own ...

"Perspectives to Strengthen Family" offers theoretical and theological perspectives which are useful in our personal and collective effort to make the family stronger. The theoretical perspectives will help us to make sense of how families behave; they will describe the structure, origin, problems, and tasks of the family. The theological perspectives, on the other hand, will provide us the normative view of the family; they will explain how the family ought to be and propose a Christian vision of family life; their starting point is not the charts and tables of the sociologists, but a ...

When Love Stayed: Lessons My Mother Taught Me in Her Leaving is a contemplative and pastoral memoir that reflects on love, loss, faith, and transformation through the experience of a son grieving his mother’s death. Written at the intersection of theology and lived experience, the book explores how love forms us long before we recognize it, how it wounds us deeply in grief, and how it continues to shape us even after death. The book unfolds in four movements. Love That Formed Me recalls the quiet, faithful love of a mother whose presence shaped family, values, and identity through ...

Teaching Catholic Social Justice Across the Disciplines: Practical Models for K–12 Educators highlights Catholic education’s mission to form both minds and hearts. Rooted in the call of Pope Francis and key Church documents, the book presents Catholic Social Teaching (CST) as a framework for promoting human dignity, the common good, solidarity, and care for creation. It emphasizes not only understanding CST but also applying it through practical, interdisciplinary strategies. The book provides adaptable lesson plans, classroom activities, and project-based tools to integrate CST themes ...

"Dream of God for Family" discusses the vision of God through Scriptural texts and the vision of the Church through the teaching of the Magisterium about the family. God has chosen the frameworks of marriage and family to help us understand His dream and plan in our life. Our understanding will hopefully deepen our faith in God and in His Church as we apply it to our respective families and consider it in our discernment and decision whether or not to enter marriage. Pope Francis says: “We are the dream of God who, truly in love, wants to change our life through love. He only asks us to ...

The book presents the situation of marital separation experienced by migrant spouses as a result of labor migration; examines their marital separation using the theological framework accompanying; and offers a theological paradigm on interactivity in accompanying to strengthen their marital relationship. Their marriage can be strengthened through an internal-relational process-external structure model of interactivity which is founded on the holistic view of man who is created in the image and likeness of God. The structure model begins and ends in interactivity which involves the ...

The book describes the experiences of the students that lead to their spiritual hunger and thirst. The Sacred Scriptures and the Catholic Social Teaching are utilized as tools for theological reflection in looking at their experiences. Forms of intervention are recommended in order to respond to their spiritual hunger and thirst. Let us prepare our students not only for what they must become in the future but most importantly prepare them to attain the sublime end for which they were created. Let us help them and support those who help them.

The first number in the series entitled "Family Issues" is focused on the family in the Philippines with its customs, tradition, ritual, practices and issues. It discusses the issue on separation of Filipino families due to labor migration including the lights and shadows of the family. Pope Francis says: “In the Philippines, economic situation has caused families to be separated … financial problems strain many households. Family threatened by growing efforts of some to redefine the institution of marriage, by relativism, by culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.” (...

The book provides a discussion about marital and family life which are filled with many challenges, each with its joys, difficulties, hopes, and often riddled with issues, conflicts, and problems. Although sometimes their solutions are elusive, the book strongly argues that strong family life with solid marriages still remains the rule rather than the exception. Thus, the Christian perspective in dealing with family issues is profoundly necessary to be taught to our students, married couples, and those who intend to get married. The primary objective of the book is to offer perspectives and...