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The Holy Trinity by consistent revelation of their identity strengthens the community composed of families. They uncover a desire, which corroborate family relationship as they reveal their nature. They are consistently One God though each of the Trinity differs in function. They renew cooperation and confirm intimate ties that merge from God’s nature of being One.

Reflecting from our daily lives, we are encouraged to learn more from the word of God. Likewise, we are motivated to pursue a common action of participation in community duties as a Church while being inspired by the word. We then see that while being propelled by the word of God, we find revealed in our actions that we are intimately an adjoining, just as the passages serving its function are closely connected as we read the Bible.

Neighborhood and community are centered in Christ as they are rigidly seen in the common action of the celebration of the word. Results of our readings are considered as long as we do not depart from the dogma or doctrines approved as the teachings of the Church. We need to prioritize knowledge of God’s nature that sustains our Bible sharing promoting our knowledge in the doctrines of the Church.

We should be meek in rendering our share of wisdom even from simple revelations. By sustaining a projected learning, we are guaranteed of new enlightenments, which we derive from our readings. We need trust in each other correcting our attitudes. Discipline is weak without a purified standpoint, as we need to protect our visions, which we render individually.

We need sacrifice if we are to think of the welfare of other people and their foreseen salvation. Attitude is the heart of conversion. We should unite the family possessing effective integral wholeness of modified learning which create the molding of our person. The presence of God must be felt existing in our community especially the neighborhood community. We must influence our environment or the neighboring township. Our unity must not be underestimated like the unity of the undivided Trinity.

The living word is the person of Jesus as he is the Word from the beginning that became flesh. The life of Jesus makes the word living establishing connection between the life of a person and the word. We, Catholics, believe in the power of the word for our decisions and actions should depend on this. The appropriate process is to erect a Basic Ecclesial Community or BEC. This should be founded on individual families in the neighborhood.

The domestic Church is the basic foundation of the big Church as a whole. Home comes from the Latin word “domus” as domestic helper means housemate. The group of believers in the house or a home is the conceptual womb of the Roman Catholic Church as a whole. Each member of the household is not isolated from the other members but they are closely connected as a family as the Trinity is in unity. Immediate connection should be established in the neighborhood as the proximity of this is revealed as all the families in the world.

BEC in the neighborhood is a community. We bridge love in the immediate vicinity. BEC neighborhood communities are composed of the neighboring families that may not be too large or too small. Ecclesia is an assembly of the people in worship purposes, which are gathered in adoration for God. Ecclesia is the church that makes our family ecclesial. Without adherence to the Church, you cannot be considered or recognized as an ecclesia.

The community of appropriately avowed members of the church can be substantiated as the moving force for religious purposes, especially propagation of the word of God. This can heighten participation in the celebration of the word. We must not live in our individual interpretations for we cannot elucidate our ideas separate from the doctrines of the Church. We should seek the advice of our priests regarding inspirations, as they should guide our enlightenments.

If we don’t follow the magisterial teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, we are considered as a different religion, much more if we deny the Church’s teachings. It needs adherence for us to be regarded as an ecclesial community. BEC can substantiate reverence for the word of God especially in the Catholic community. We need a dynamic Church to maintain and sustain the faith in the community.

“Revelations should be inspired by no other than the Holy Spirit. BEC is the movement of the Holy Spirit,” explained Fr. Sau David in the Basic Ecclesial Community seminar in the Parish of St. Jude Thaddeus in Andagao, Kalibo, Aklan. Our Parish Priest is Fr. Frederick G. Malacas. “We cannot hear and apply the word of God without the guidance of the Holy Spirit,” Fr. Sau added. This can be attained through neighborhood community.

Some say that maybe I was hallucinating with all the spiritual episodes I experienced, and the visions and mirages I see both with open eyes and in my internal sight. But it doesn’t matter; I can’t force them to believe. I only have to let these things out for the moment has come, and I cannot keep it all into my self forever. Somehow, I have to share it to others.

This is a form of unfolding, which takes flesh in Bible sharing, for you can’t help but share the scripture texts and the transformation that you experienced, I for one in my escapade. Somehow God gave these to me not for myself but that I may be a witness to others about the wonders and the good things that God permits in our lives.

Somehow these seemingly supernatural experiences was intensified by the Hindu form of meditation particularly yoga which I have ceased to practice already. Likewise, its effects remained with me, which helped me think clearly and see some things that others don’t perceive. There are moments that I seem to live in the world of spirits with the flow back of thoughts serving as my guide on what to do in some particular instances and which way to go or whether I have to proceed in a certain place or not.

On a hand, there are times that God seems to allow me to be placed on the spot that I may learn from that experience and subdue my pride even if I have to face some painful accusations. However, there are times that I need to be prudent enough to maintain my respect to my self in a way that it won’t offend others. Somehow, it is my nature to be silent if I am thinking on what to write about while on the computer. I may be misinterpreted in this way, and I might not win their sympathy, thus, I need to devise a way for communication to proceed.

I might not be able to resolve this problem easily with me somehow prevented in a way as the scenes of my past flashes back. I need to be strong enough to exist transcendent from the hesitation I feel that I may restore my being friendly and that I may be happy too with their company. By being too open enough I may be relieved of the stain, but it is my hope that even now, I will efface in my memory those sad experiences and only retain what is the good.

I need not be in pain by appearing indifferent choosing secrecy than I would have to open some sensitive facets of my life, though these increase their doubts. I should take enough courage to face even those that are hard to please by being too tangible with my presence. It may not be easy to do so but they too deserve to be enlightened even be clarified with the things they bother to presume. It is better to appear an intruder than being unconcerned with their portion of tranquility. I might not be good in trying to appease their feelings, but I may serve as a being tangible enough to provide answer to their questions.

“I love the tiny green island surrounded by the sea,” was the echo from my being. Somehow I concocted a world of my own with many brothers to help me even with the lashes of their tongues. But that was before, and at present it seems I have lost my guts to befriend them as I appear indifferent to the purity of their discussion while hoping to relate well with them and scale to their level knowing well that the way they think is unique with me seemingly left by time as I was caught in the realm of Gen-X progress acting like a grandfather to them.

Here as I paused, I’m bothered if I’m really rejected, a nuisance in their eyes even with my eyeglasses on. Somehow those who loved me with these were my friends, have gone away and had their own lives, even my newest friends, since I could only find them now in my friendster. Some had gone abroad or busy with their married life while I was left alone in the midst of the seemingly sea. Likewise I feel glory that I have my mother, even dad has died recently, and my sisters too even my only brother already passed away, moreover my in-laws by my kin, which include my nieces and nephews, and my relatives and friends.

I’m caught in a sort of alienation that I felt when I’ve attempted to commit suicide in Boracay. But though I was debilitated, I am in mirth that I was tranquil and composed with my depression being gone. Somehow time will come that I would be convinced that I am part of these young though I’m older, and would feel their affirmation and concern, and we be the same birds with similar feather as I also speak their kind of language.

Love begets love, but I’ve detected that rejection is itself an affirmation because they care to speak while others prefer to be in cliché. I’m only hesitating to be vocal because I do not know their names unlike my friends in RMCAT that I have a complete list of their names and other info about them. Time will come, we’ll relate in the gut level, helping one another do what is preferred and enjoyed in the circle of love and affirmation.

Love? When was the last time I thought about love? I felt love when I too was forgiven of my offenses in the time that I hated much my self and those who ruined my life. As I am dispensed, I am bound to forgive. With my resurrection, I did enjoy the flowers of springtime forgetting that once in my life, I had a share of Job’s sorrow.

The Holy Spirit does not only provide us the revelation but also bestow unto us the power. It is a living force or power for us to do what God wants us to consummate. Like the experience of the first Christians, we are given the occasion to share similar occurrence. In the same way, we are emboldened to amplify a deeper commitment and supply what is lacking in our vivacity.

For us to become closer to God, it is but practical to relate and commune with each other as Christ taught love for our neighbor and supply the needed compassion. Through the word of God, we could purify the church for us to obtain the needed salvation with us pilgrims constituting the church. Likewise as the church is the source of action, teachings therein should be practical, structural and theological. We need to live out the gospel. Moreover, as families need unity with this being essential, we should develop closeness to God and those within the parish, and bring the same attitude to our homes as we apply the word of God in our daily lives.

We should motivate availability within the neighborhood with which we can share and exchange each of our blessings and impart the word of God to them. Through this, we can help them obtain the needed moral support through extending our compassionate love where through interchange of stories, we become intimate with each other. We need to exist in the context where we can participate in perceiving the concern in the neighborhood and extend sympathy. We need to affirm each other and relay clearly our support comforting whoever is in misery.

In the neighborhood, we need to respect each other and value the existing friendship, generous with each of our resources. We also need to unburden our problems with whoever were those within our reach. We must be aware of what will bring happiness to each other. Meanwhile, in the church, by the inspiration we obtain from the Holy Spirit, we should participate in church activities and do our share in the work of God allowing our presence to be felt.

In spite of different backgrounds with each of us being unique from each other, we should bear in mind that we are all brothers and sisters similar in culture and does not differ much in principles as we commune together in the family of God. We should be aware that each of us shares our part in the church family that God cares for and love. Moreover, as Disciples of Christ, we need to know through the Bible his life as embedded in its contents.

The Lord invites us to follow him and be aware of our role in a growing church. Wherever the presence of Christ is felt, there we should settle. This is an invitation for us to be devotees with us being aware that Mary is the first disciple. We should hear and receive the word of God and allow His will to be vibrant in us just as the reality we discover from the scriptures. If possible, we should be harnessed in a lifestyle based from the word of God or the gospel lifestyle.

The Bible is the manual of our Christian life, and through the word of God, our life can be changed making us good Catholics. It is up for us to multiply God’s blessings by extending our share of generosity to others. In the same way as based from the life of Jesus, we should also imitate how he thinks, speaks, relates that we may grow and bloom like him.

We should live life having constant reflection of the word of God and be not ignorant of the teachings of the church. We should revive our lifestyle not only on the spiritual aspect but also on the whole integral appearance with our deeds being apparent in the society. In the same way, we should be militant pilgrim church, active and at the same time contemplative receptacles of the concern of saving souls.

We should help the church just as Christ offered himself for our sake. He died for us that exist in the neighborhood, of which we can echo this good example through contemplating on the word of God and applying to our lives what we have read. We should participate actively in the church activities. As neighbors, we can gather together and lay our concern for the welfare of the neighborhood. Very often, we should talk about the goodness of God despite the trials we face in life.

Through healthy ties established in the neighborhood, we can relay how we obtain strength from the word of God, and how the gospel changes our life. We should devise a way where we can share the word of God, contemplating daily on the scriptures. We should practice a form of Bible sharing as we struggle in explaining the identity of the Trinity that sustain unity. We also should grow in the love of celebrating the word and sharing the changes that we obtain by frequently attending the mass.

We should connect our faith to our experience, as these two should not be separated as we grow in love of the word. The word of God with all its facets is a precious diamond where it’s many sides give off many wonderful insights and realizations.