Ecclesial community
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.
