GOAL!
The Greatest Baptismal Right and Responsibility
Rights and Responsibilities of the Baptized
- Law of Love- the Law of God that is exemplified through Jesus' whole life and expressed in his teaching of the New Commandment.
- Greatest commandment: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind."
- Second greatest: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
- We as a community, must exercise our baptismal rights and responsibilities by living as an example of Jesus.
- We are to 'love' as Jesus did.
Proclaim the Gospel
- Take part in apostolic work of the church to strive so that the divine message of salvation may more and more reach of all times and places.
- Obligated to promote social justice and mindful of the Lord's precept, to help the poor from their own resources.
- The church is the body of Christ and the one family and one people of God.
Build up the Church, the Body of Christ
- All the faithful have the right & responsibility to promote the growth of the church and care for the church's renewal and reform.
- It comes with the corresponding right & duty to speak up & be heard on matters concerning the integrity & vitality of the church.
Holiness of Life
By: Rilee Farney, Tiffany Bryant, Perla Hernandez, Evelyn Garcia-Cabrera & Tatiana Leguizamon
- All the faithful have the responsibility to lead a holy life, promote the Church's continual sanctification, the right to worship, share the spiritual riches of the Church, and the right to a Christian education
- This teaches us to strive for the maturity of the human person and at the same time to know and live the mystery of salvation.
Code of Canon Law
- The rights and responsibilities that flow from Baptism are stated in the Code of Canon law of the Catholic Church
- The laws were written by the church to govern the life of the church in her mission
- The law tells us that it is our responsibility to participate in the life and mission of the Church according to our state of life
- The laws are described into three different canons: the holiness of life, the build up the church, the body of christ, and proclaiming the Gospel