Monthly Archives: March 2017

The circles of people whose hands are intertwined symbolize the communion within the BECs. These communities are linked together by the outline of the cross which signifies the parish as communion of communities. It also includes other faith communities and organizations that are in the parish that – although trans-parochial in nature- are called to actively take part in the life of the parish and BECs. The outline of the cross also symbolizes the vertical and horizontal dimension of communion – communion with the Triune God and with each other. The bread and…continue reading →

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference has designated 2017 as the year of the Parish as Communion of Communities. According to the CBCP Committee on Basic Ecclesial Communities, “This is a year when we more deeply discern not only the structures of governance of our dioceses and parishes but also of the quality of faith life in the parish, the fellowship, belongingness, and participation by its members. In a special way we shall probe into our efforts of making the parish a communion of communities, a communion of Basic Ecclesial Communities and of covenanted faith-communities…continue reading →

Thousands of Catholics, including over 50 parishioners from Christ the King Parish Greenmeadows, joined a threehour pre-dawn march with church leaders around the Quirino Grandstand parade grounds in Rizal Park, Manila in one of the largest shows of opposition to President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown against illegal drugs and attempts to revive the death penalty. 20 of the 50-strong CTK contingent gathered as early as 3 am and Jilled up a tour bus from JKL Tours. The Christ the King PPC members who went included Amelia Alba, Sheryl Coronel, Louie Laudico, Irene Robles.…continue reading →

CTK parish priest Father Bong Tupino had always argued that CTK parish does a decent job of ministering to the pre-school children through the Mustard Seed Ministry, to the youth through the Youth Ministry and PREX Youth, to the families and married couples through the Family & Life Ministry, but there continues to be a void as far as ministering to the elderly is concerned. The parish currently has a few activities that involve senior citizens , e . g . , EMHC’ s g iv i n g communion at the homes…continue reading →

The Our Lady of Perpetual Help Vicariate, which includes Christ the King Parish, held the BEC Basic Orientation Seminar for the various parish BEC leaders in the vicariate at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish. The CTK delegation consisted of four youth leaders f rom the Libis community and Dive BEC leaders from Libis that included Ching Botero, Libis BEC Coordinator, Jo Piyaw, Libis assistant BEC coordinator, and Tiny Perfecto, BEC coordinator for St Ignatius Village . Host i n g the delegations was Msgr. Jun Bogaoan, BEC priest minister of OLPH…continue reading →

Buklod ng Panginoon, one of the renewal movements in Christ the King Parish but localized to Barangay St. Ignatius, celebrated the 2016 Christmas season with several projects. One was the Share a Toy, Share a Joy program, to benefit the kids at Libis. Buklod leaders put up a large drop box for the toy donations at their parish center. The Libis kids were later picked up and treated to a Jollibee children’s party at St. Ignatius. On December 24th, St. Ignatius, through coordination efforts of Buklod working with the village coordinators, mounted a…continue reading →

The CBCP pastoral exhortation “On the Era of New Evangelization’ described the focus this year: “our focus will be the building of a parish that is truly a faith community immersed in the lives of its people.” Key to this end is the forming and-or revitalizing of Basic Ecclesial Communities in every parish as agents of communion, participation and mission, with the active participation of other faith communities, lay organizations, movements, and associations, or LOMAs. Fr. Picardal defines BECs thus: as local communities of Catholic Christians in the neighborhoods and villages within the…continue reading →

We seek to answer the basic questions: How can our parishes embody and concretize Pope Francis’ call for the missionary renewal of the entire Church? How does the parish become an agent of missionary evangelization? First, evangelization requires a comprehensive vision. Christian presence and witness to life, i.e., living in harmony, living lives of integrity, fulfilling community duties, etc., by ordinary parish members is a primal, concrete and practical means of effective evangelization; in this way, the Good News is taken to the highways and byways of daily human activity. Living as good…continue reading →

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…continue reading →

In back-to-back dinner meetings, Fr. Bong Tupino announced to the village coordinators last Thursday February 23 and to the mandated organizations and renewal movement heads last Friday February 24 that couples Bert and Marie Anne Santos, PPC Lay Coordinator, and couples Henry and Joyce Tañedo, PPC Assistant Lay Coordinator, would henceforth take on the roles of ‘animators’ for the two groups respectively. Fr. Bong explained that he really cannot Oind the time to regularly meet, guide, and advice the village coordinators and the orgs and movements as they plan their activities and projects…continue reading →