The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities

The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the people of this age, especially the unforesightful, be those of the church building. This quote is taken from the arcminute Vati suffer Councils Pastoral Constitution on the church in the advanced(a) World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As one historiographer has said, the conquest of the Americas came with a volume in one legislate and a sword in the other, and thats a long and gnarled history. Fast forward to the twentieth century, and pitiable people were generator to long for a budge that would alter the traditional descent in which the church was to a greater extent associated with those in power. The question instantly is how can the church service be a church for the poor and at the same time, more than theological in temper?\nNowadays, the Church is identified entirely with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a Church that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a Church that is not touch nigh the situation of poverty, injustice, emphasis and the destruction of the environment, and a Church that is associated with the rich and powerful, where the poor be marginalized. The Church should not be like this. It should be a effort for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprived of their full lieu as human beings. The poor should take the example of deliveryman and use it to bring well-nigh a just society. To reform the Church, Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second comprehensive Council of the Filipinos (PCP II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as mode of renewing the Church and Philippine society. Since then BECs have go along to grow and expand and they can now be gear up in over sixty dioceses. PCP IIs vision of the regenerate Church says, Our vision of the Church as communion, participation and mission, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & magnificent people, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renew - is today finding spirit in one ecclesial movement. This is the movement t...