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Records of an Ecclesial Experiment

The BEC Project at the MGCP is progressing. Since the last time I wrote about it (three months ago) we have begun holding training sessions for our BEC leaders regularly. We have more than ten cell leaders under advanced training now coming from four areas of the parish and three more under basic training. The [...]

8Jun2009 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Maligaya VI Third Anniversary

Today we celebrate the third anniversary of the Maligaya VI community we established back in the year 2005.  Ben Tindoy, the then out-going President of our Olympia I chapel invited me to visit the Bible prayer group he and his group, the New Jerusalem community, were supporting there.  I went for a few nights of Bible prayer sessions [...]

26Jul2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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Theology 105

Tomorrow I begin teaching Theology 105 at the Colegio San Agustin-Biñan.  It is a three-unit course in theology offered to third-year students and intended to help the student integrate what they’ve learned from Theology 101-104 with questions bearing on politics, economics, Third World realities, family life, bishops who protest the questionable policies of the Gloria [...]

10Jun2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued
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An Interest Not Wholly About Computers

My interest in Basic Ecclesial Communities started when I did research on Latin America’s Liberation Theology. I found BECs interesting because it made me realize that theology is not something one learns in school, but rather it is reflection on one’s way of living the Gospel. But since gospel-life in Latin America took [...]

17Apr2008 | alesmeralda | 0 comments | Continued