NSTP FACILITATOR’S
GUIDE
(as of SY 2021 – 2022)
NSTP
MODULE 2
Life and Mission of
Br. Polycarp and the
Brothers of the Sacred
Heart
CJC-BR. POLYCARP INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, INC. TEL/FAX: (082) 553-5741 CELLPHONE: 0919-822-7140
COR JESU COLLEGE, HEALTH SCIENCE CAMPUS, TRES DE MAYO, DIGOS CITY EMAIL: dgcelebrado@yahoo.com WEBSITE: www.cjc-bsh.org
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
At the end of the session, the students would have :
1) Learned the life and mission of Brother Polycarp;
2) Understood the significance of Brother Polycarp
to the Brothers of the Sacred Heart;
3) Inspired by the Mission of the Brothers of the
Sacred Heart.
4) Learned the Vision and Mission of Cor Jesu College;
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Learning Input
Who is BROTHER POLYCARP?
• 2nd founder of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart (France -1826)
• 1st founder: Father Andre Coindre (France – 1821)
Brother Polycarp: The Love of Youth
• Brother Polycarp loved the youth and he wanted to help them
by becoming himself a lay teacher and later a religious
educator. His retreat resolutions often mention his love for the
youth: “For my pupils. I will have a living charity, an ardent zeal
for their progress, a paternal affection and tenderness”
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Brother Polycarp: The Virtue of Joy
• “It is not given to everyone to have a great sense of humor;
although one can laugh at jokes of others and specially smile.
And I propose to imitate this joy, because it has been proven
that today specially, it is one of things that attract more
efficiently the youth to the religious life. But to arrive at this
joy, real deep and Christian joy, one thing needed is
....PRAYER”
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Learning Input
Brother Polycarp: Teachings on the Religious Spirit
(Roger Bosse, SC)
• “God chose what was weak in the world to shame the strong”
words that seem to be the very inspiration for religious life;
they may be said to form the backdrop for the Brother
Polycarp’s vision of religious life and of his advice to his
brothers.
• For Brother Polycarp, to be a religious educator-educator
was to live as a follower of Jesus. He expressed this
conviction by his “I am firmly resolved to imitate Jesus in all
things, and to live only for him”.
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Learning Input
Brother Polycarp: Teachings on the Religious Spirit
(Roger Bosse, SC)
• He was a committed religious-educator “I shall always have my
students a spirited love, an ardent zeal for their advancement,
especially in virtue; and finally an affection, a fatherly tenderness. I
shall do all that I can in order to win over all of them to the Savior of
their souls”.
• Even his childhood memories were reminders of his great esteem
for the religious life, He remembered tending his flock on the
mountain ridges of Rocher de I’aire “ God has called us all to
holiness, and His grace is setting before us the path to heaven, just
like the footholds on the mountain sides are like steps for us to climb
ever higher”.
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Activity 2
Learning Input
What does it mean to be a Brother of the Sacred Heart?
To rescue young people from ignorance, to prepare them for
life, and to give them a knowledge and love of religion.
In the spirit of evangelization that marked the period, the
founding of the Institute expressed a response to the needs
of the time and place on behalf of neglected children and
youth.
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Learning Input
Brothers of the Sacred Heart
A group of men who consecrate themselves for the service of
God and the world through the education of children and youth,
especially the poor and in need of hope.
Founded in Lyon, France, 1821 by Fr. Andre Coindre, with a
noble intention to form them as Brothers in order to devote
themselves to educating the children and youth.
Since then, and with Br. Polycarp, the Second Founder, the
Congregation of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, grew and
with the help of the Holy Spirit reached out to 32 countries
around the world.
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Brothers of the Sacred Heart, Philippines
In 1959, the Brothers of the Sacred Heart from Canada generously
responded the call to come to the Philippines upon the invitation of
Bishop CLOVIS THIBAULT, the then Bishop of Davao who was an
alumnus of the school of the Brothers in Canada.
The first Canadian Brothers who came to the Philippines landed in
Digos and took over the administration of Holy Cross of Digos, which is
now our Cor Jesu College.
Since then and until the present, the Brothers together with their Lay
Collaborators have generously responded the call to educate children
and youth.
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Brothers of the Sacred Heart
DELEGATION OF THE PHILIPPINES, PROVINCE OF NEW YORK
VISION
Transformed young in the Philippines and Asia fully knowing, living, and
spreading God’s Love.
MISSION
We, the Brothers of the Sacred Heart of the Philippine Delegation, deeply rooted
in the Spirituality of the Pierced Heart of Christ, commit ourselves to:
- Witness to the compassionate love of God;
- Live out religious consecration in a community marked by simplicity, acceptance,
and brotherhood; and
- Contribute through Christian Education to the evangelization of the young, especially
the poor and without hope in the Philippines and Asia.
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Activity 2
Learning Input
Brothers of the Sacred Heart
Three Main Ministries of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in the
Philippines
Y-outh & Vocation Ministry
E-ducation Ministry
S-piritual Animation Ministry
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COR JESU COLLEGE
owned and administered by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart,
established in 1959.
VISION:
COR JESU COLLEGE, a leading catholic educational institution
in Southern Mindanao, envisions fully transformed persons
inspired by the Spirituality of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
and the Charism of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart.
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MISSION:
COR JESU COLLEGE is committed to the total transformation of all its
stakeholders by:
1.COMMUNITAS (Community)
Nurturing a compassionate community (that journeys with partners) as
committed agents for social change and development.
2.UNIVERSITAS (Excellence)
Advancing the emergence/evolution of a modern and responsive center of
(Culture and) learning that draws out the best in all.
3.DISCIPLESHIP
Engaging in institutional Social Responsibility towards Community
Empowerment.
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Activity 3
Learning Input
CJC MOTTO:
“Drawing out the
best in you”
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