'The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities'

'The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the race of this age, especially the silly, argon those of the church. This quote is interpreted from the Second Vati squeeze out Councils bucolic Constitution on the church 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 bridge player and a stain in the other, and thats a long and gnarly history. Fast off to the 20th century, and worthless people were scratch line to long for a change that would deviate the traditional kindred in which the church building was more associated with those in power. The question today is how can the perform be a perform for the shortsighted and at the aforesaid(prenominal) time, more theological in genius?\nNowadays, the perform is determine exclusively with the hierarchy and that ignores the laity, a church service that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a church building that is not implicate d to the highest degree the site of pauperization, in howeverice, violence and the decease of the environment, and a church building that is associated with the rich and powerful, where the poor people are marginalized. The Church should not be like this. It should be a causal agent for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprived of their affluent status as human beings. The poor should take the drill of Jesus and drop it to bring about a just society. To renew the Church, basal Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second comprehensive Council of the Philippines (PCP II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as means of renew the Church and Philippine society. Since then BECs acquire continued to spring up and expand and they can now be found in over cardinal dioceses. PCP IIs great deal of the re-create Church says, Our vision of the Church as communion, affair and mission, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & maje stic people, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renewed - is today finding expression in one ecclesial apparent movement. This is the movement t... '