Jubileo: Nurturing Hope in Religious Education
Leong Hall Auditorium, Ateneo De Manila University
8:00 AM
16th National Conference for Religious Educators (NCRE) this October focuses on Jubilee Year |October 26-27, 2024 | The opening plenary is by Fr. Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, C.M., president of Adamson University. Fr. Danny is a member of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) and a contextual theologian and writer. He is a professor and was a former dean of St. Vincent School of Theology. Fr. Danny will present the current landscape of the Philippine Church in need of hope.
Two breakout sessions will follow offering different topics. For Breakout Session 1, there are 7 topics on hope to choose from:
A – Rejoice in Hope: Christ’s Hope in the Family (Maria Elisa A. Borja, Ph.D.)
B – A Look at Mary as Model and Beacon of Hope for the Filipinos (Maria Lowella I. Calderon, M.A.)
C – Pastorality: The Unrealized Hope of Gaudium et Spes (Kenjie I. Cortez, M.A.)
D – Discerning and Creating a Hope-filled Future for and With the Youth (Tinnah M. dela Rosa, M.A.)
E – The Ignatian Heroes' Journey Towards a Hope-Filled Future (Edilberto Isidore C. Jimenez, M.A.)
F – Imagining the Good and Possible (Edwin B. Odulio, Ph.D.)
G – Journeying in Hope: Insights from Gabriel Marcel and Jürgen Moltmann (Teofilo Giovan S. Pugeda III, M.A.)
For Breakout Session 2, there are 6 topics on hope to choose from:
A – Unbinding Religious Education: A Critical Realist Approach (Justin Joseph G. Badion, Ph.D.)
B – Biblical Sabbath and Jubilee: Hope for Ecological Conversion through Religious Education (John Paul A. Bolano, Ph.D.)
C – Responding to the Acedia of our Students with Hope (Stephanie Ann Y. Puen, Ph.D.)
D – “Sustainable Community Hermeneutics”: Seeing Hope in the Homemaking Journey of Biblical and Present Women-in-Displacement (Marnie D. Racaza, Ph.D. cand.)
E – The Incarnation as Pagdamay: Christology and the Non-human (Aaron C. Reyes, M.A.)
F – Contemplating Hope: Integrating the Kerygma and the Via Pulchritudinis in Religious Education (Lesley Anne A. Rosal, M.A.)
The conference will close with a plenary session by Fr. Arnel C. Aquino, S.J. on sending off the participants with jubilant hope as religious educators and catechists. Fr. Arnel is a full-time professor of systematic theology at Loyola School of Theology. He has written many beautiful liturgical songs including “Pagsibol” and “Ito Ang Araw” even while at Sacred Heart Novitiate, and created the tradition of Jesuit Music for Meditation through the LAUDS series recorded by JesCom.
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