The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities

The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the people of this age, especially the low-down, ar those of the church building. This quote is taken from the imprimatur Vati understructure Councils Pastoral Constitution on the church in the neo World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As one historian has said, the conquest of the Americas came with a leger in one pop off and a sword in the other, and thats a long and knotty history. Fast forward to the twentieth century, and paltry people were inception to long for a flip-flop that would alter the traditional consanguinity in which the church was to a greater extent associated with those in power. The question at once is how can the church building be a church service for the poor and at the same time, to a greater extent theological in temper?\nNowadays, the Church is identified solo with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a Church that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a Church that is not concern clos ely the situation of poverty, injustice, abandon 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 sweat for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprived of their full positioning as human beings. The poor should take the example of saviour and use it to bring somewhat a just society. To re-create the Church, Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second comprehensive Council of the Philippines (PCP II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as instrument of renewing the Church and Philippine society. Since then BECs have act to grow and expand and they can now be shew in over threescore dioceses. PCP IIs vision of the re-create Church says, Our vision of the Church as communion, participation and mission, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & kingly people, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renew - is today finding facet in one ecclesial movement. This is the movement t...