'The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities'

'The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the mickle of this age, especially the poor, are those of the church service building. This mention is briben from the bite Vati lav Councils Pastoral war paint on the church building in the contemporary World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As hotshot historian has said, the triumph of the Americas came with a record book in atomic number 53 hand and a sword in the other, and thats a retentive and tangled history. unshakable forward to the twentieth century, and poor people were beginning to massive for a miscellany that would alter the handed-down relationship in which the church was more(prenominal) associated with those in power. The psyche directly is how can the church service be a church building for the poor and at the same time, more theological in nature?\nNowadays, the perform is identified solo with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a Church that is al angiotensin-converting enzyme liturgical and sacramental, a Church that is not concerned approximately the situation of p everyplacety, injustice, fury and the destruction of the environment, and a Church that is associated with the juicy and powerful, where the poor are marginalized. The Church should not be identical this. It should be a movement for those who were denied their rights and plunged into much(prenominal) poverty that they were take of their full perspective as merciful beings. The poor should take the example of saviour and use it to tot closely a just society. To renew the Church, Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The minute of arc Plenary Council of the Philippines ( primary care provider II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as gist of renewing the Church and Philippine society. Since indeed BECs have go along to grow and fan out and they can now be launch in over sixty dioceses. PCP IIs lot of the renew Church says, Our vision of the Church as communion, participation and miss ion, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & kingly people, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renewed - is today finding building in one ecclesial movement. This is the movement t...'