BEC, Bible Apostolate, Ministry, Scriptures
Mark 10:17-31 is the gospel reading for the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Year B). Below is an outline of the text based on the sentence flow found here.
BEC, Bible Apostolate, Ministry, Scriptures
An outline of a bible passage is a summary for the close reading you make of a passage when you make a sentence flow of it. A well-made outline can serve one a lot of purposes later on, especially ...
Outlining A Bible Passage IV: Working on Themes
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BEC, Scriptures, Theology
I think it was Carlos Mesters (was it from the book “Fiori senza difesa”?) who made me realize that the BEC is the place where the Spiritual senses of the Scriptures unlocked, discovered and lived. But in the schema he ...
The Spiritual Senses of Scriptures and the BEC
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BEC, Bible Apostolate, Church in the World, Lectio Divina, MGCP, Ministry, PREX, Scriptures
Below are links to articles on this website regarding the BEC Project in our parish. It complements another article that I posted back in 2008. Much has changed in the way our BEC Project is carried out. ...
Records of an Ecclesial Experiment II
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BEC, Ministry
One of the problems BEC leaders in urban areas have is that the members of their cell groups are professionals, college graduates and individuals who are daily in contact with representatives of other religions. To get ahead of them and be ...
The Tools of a BEC Leader
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BEC, Scriptures
Apart from a search query on “Where was the Church founded”, there is also another one on “When was the first Bible cell meeting?” I was thinking that this latter was about the Bible cell meetings we were having in ...
When Was the First Cell Meeting?
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BEC, Bible Apostolate, Ministry, Scriptures
It is one thing to outline a bible passage from a narrative like the Gospel of Mark. It is another thing to outline a passage from the Pauline letters or any discursive type of biblical literature. The key is to ...
Outlining a Bible Passage III: Colossians
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BEC, Bible Apostolate, Ministry, Scriptures
Two Saturdays ago, I introduced the activity of outlining a bible passage in our BEC Training Module. We associate outlines for term papers and speeches we are assigned to write. But outlines are also important for understanding an article one ...
Outlining a Bible Passage
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Ministry, PREX, Scriptures, Spirituality
Last Sunday we saw fourteen new graduates from our Parish Renewal Experience. Together with this new group, four others who finished our first BEC Ministry Training Program also received their diplomas. These will undergo further training as they begin their ...
PREX and Other Things
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BEC, Christian Life, Ministry
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 ...
My Interest in the BEC
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BEC, MGCP, Ministry, Personal, PREX
I was going through my old blogs and found out two that resulted from two events that really got me going in my ministry at the Mother of Good Counsel Parish in 2005. I reported for duty at the ...
The BEC Project and the PREX at MGCP
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BEC, MGCP, Scriptures
We have begun our special modular training for the BEC Leaders of Olympia I. The module we started is "Reading Scriptures Intelligently", which is based on an article I published years ago at Suite 101's Catholic Scripture Studies. ...
Reading Scriptures Intelligently
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BEC, MGCP, Ministry
How can we go about building basic ecclesial communities in a suburban setting? By creating bible cell groups in every street and in every area (subdivision or development area) covered by the parish's jurisdiction. I am aware that this is ...
