The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities

The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the the great unwashed of this age, especially the wretched, are those of the church service. This quotation mark is retortn from the Second Vati flowerpot Councils eclogue Constitution on the church service in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As one historian has said, the conquest of the Americas came with a Bible in one hand and a sword in the other, and thats a presbyopic and tangled history. extravagant forward to the 20th century, and poor people were beginning to long for a change that would switch the traditional relationship in which the church was more associated with those in power. The question straightway is how can the church building be a church for the poor and at the same time, more theological in nature?\nNowadays, the church service is identified alone with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a church that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a Church that is not concerned int imately the situation of poverty, injustice, violence and the ravaging of the environment, and a Church that is associated with the naughty and powerful, where the poor are marginalized. The Church should not be want this. It should be a thrust for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprive of their full status as human beings. The poor should take the example of Jesus and subprogram it to bring about a just society. To renew the Church, grassroots Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines ( health professional II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as means of variation the Church and Philippine society. Since wherefore BECs have continued to ferment and expand and they can now be found in over sixty dioceses. PCP IIs vision of the renewed 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 renewed - is forthwith finding expression in one ecclesial movement. This is the movement t...