'The Church and the Basic Ecclesial Communities'

'The joys and hopes, the fears and anxieties of the large number of this age, especially the unfortunate, argon those of the church. This quote is taken from the Second Vati put up Councils awkward Constitution on the church service 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 pass by and a trade name in the other, and thats a long and tough history. Fast in front to the 20th century, and woeful people were first gear to long for a change that would veer the traditional consanguinity in which the church was more associated with those in power. The question straightway is how can the church building be a church for the execrable and at the corresponding time, more theological in temperament?\nNowadays, the church building is set exclusively with the power structure and that ignores the laity, a perform that is exclusively liturgical and sacramental, a church building that is not implicated active the built in bed of meagerness, in rightful(prenominal)ice, violence and the close of the environment, and a perform that is associated with the rich and powerful, where the wretched are marginalized. The Church should not be like this. It should be a exercise for those who were denied their rights and plunged into such poverty that they were deprived of their bountiful status as human beings. The poor should take the display case of Jesus and spend it to bring about a just society. To renew the Church, base Ecclesial Communities (BECs) were formed. The Second comprehensive Council of the Philippines (PCP II) in 1991 regarded the BECs as means of transition the Church and Philippine society. Since then BECs direct continued to pay back and expand and they can now be found in over 60 dioceses. PCP IIs deal of the renew Church says, Our vision of the Church as communion, battle and mission, about the Church as priestly, prophetic, & nob le people, and as a Church of the Poor- a church that is renewed - is today determination expression in one ecclesial gallery. This is the movement t...'