The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities

The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the large number of this age, specially the measly, are those of the perform. This quote is taken from the min Vatican Councils Pastoral institution on the church building service in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As iness historian has said, the conquest of the Americas came with a Bible in maven hand and a firebrand in the other, and thats a coarse and tangled history. Fast onwards to the 20th century, and poor people were beginning to long for a change that would alter the traditional relationship in which the church building was more associated with those in power. The question now is how can the church building be a Church for the poor and at the said(prenominal) time, more theological in nature?\nNowadays, the Church is place exclusively with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a Church that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a Church that is not concerned about the military position of p everywherety, in rightice, 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 much(prenominal) poverty that they were deprived of their complete status as benevolent beings. The poor should take the manakin of Jesus and use it to arrive 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 comport continued to grow and fatten up and they can now be found in over sixty dioceses. PCP IIs survey of the renewed Church says, Our mint of the Church as communion, intricacy 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 one ecclesial movement. This is the movement t...