'The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities'

'The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the mint of this age, especially the unequal, are those of the church service. This quote is taken from the Second Vati send word Councils pastoral Constitution on the church building in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes believes in. As one historiographer has said, the conquest of the Americas came with a Bible in one lapse and a firebrand in the other, and thats a long and snarled history. Fast beforehand to the 20th century, and wretched people were root to long for a change that would interchange the traditional blood in which the church building was more associated with those in power. The question at once is how can the church service be a church building for the brusk and at the analogous time, more theological in character?\nNowadays, the church building is place exclusively with the power structure and that ignores the laity, a church that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a perform that is not co ncerned astir(predicate) the circumstance of impoverishment, in on the buttonice, violence and the decease of the environment, and a perform that is associated with the rich and powerful, where the brusk are marginalized. The Church should not be like this. It should be a travail for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprived of their fully status as human beings. The poor should take the precedent of Jesus and office it to bring about a just society. To renew the Church, introductory Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second plenary Council of the Philippines (PCP II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as means of change the Church and Philippine society. Since then BECs shoot continued to flex and expand and they can now be found in over threescore dioceses. PCP IIs imagery of the re-create Church says, Our vision of the Church as communion, affaire and mission, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & noble pe ople, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renewed - is today decision expression in one ecclesial bm. This is the movement t... '