The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities

The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the commonwealth of this age, particularly the light, are those of the perform. This quote is taken from the arcsecond Vatican Councils Pastoral paper on the church building building in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As nonpareil historian has said, the conquest of the Americas came with a Bible in ane hand and a brand name in the other, and thats a considerable and tangled history. Fast antecedent to the 20th century, and poor people were beginning to long for a change that would alter the traditional relationship in which the church was more associated with those in power. The perplexity now is how can the church building be a Church for the poor and at the selfsame(prenominal) time, more theological in nature?\nNowadays, the Church is determine exclusively with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a Church that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a Church that is non concerned about the fu nction of p all overty, in cleanice, violence and the destruction of the environment, and a Church that is associated with the rich and powerful, where the poor are marginalized. The Church should not be like this. It should be a movement for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprived of their wide status as homo beings. The poor should take the grammatical case of Jesus and use it to necessitate about a just society. To renew the Church, Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as means of renewing the Church and Philippine society. Since then BECs begin continued to grow and distend and they can now be found in over sixty dioceses. PCP IIs view of the renewed Church says, Our vision of the Church as communion, elaborateness and mission, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & kingly people, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renewed - is today decision expression in whiz ecclesial movement. This is the movement t...