Fr. Bong Briefs Parish Pastoral Council on Basic Ecclesial Communities

At the regular monthly Parish Pastoral Council meeting last February 11, Fr. Bong Tupino took center stage to talk about Basic Ecclesial Communities, as his contribution to providing the needed basic BEC orientation and training to CTK’s PPC. He talked through two important articles: one by James H. Kroeger of the Maryknoll Missionaries who also teaches at the Loyola School of Theology, on “The Parish as Community of Missionary Disciples” and the other by Amado L. Picardal, a Redemptorist with the Congregation of the Holy Redeemer, on “BECs as Agents of Communion, Participation and Mission’.

At the end of the discussion on the two papers, Fr. Bong Tupino gave the PPC members an assignment – to think through what BEC-related initiatives might be relevant for the CTK vi l lage s , the mandated organizations, and the various ministries. He asked them to consider street masses and bible studies, for example, which had been brought up to him by other parishioners.