Taytayan Digital - July 2011

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Sunday. We arrived early in the venue before theactivity started but dele-

gates from the provincesobviously arrived earlier

Lapulapu City hostedthis years Pentecost Cele-

bration on June 12, 2011.Attended by delegatesrepresenting all Charis-matic Communities of Cebu, the venue, the newlyfinished Hoops Dome, wasfilled to capacity.

BCBP Mactan, beingone of these charismaticcommunities was repre-sented by our very own

Chapter Head, MartinPusta together with somekuyas and ates.

Ate Lanie Berdin has

this to share of herexperience on that bigevent.

I was very happy that I was part of that big celebration of Pentecost

Cebu Charismatic Communities CelebratePentecost

Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and ProfessionalsMactan Chapter

July2011

Special points of interest:

Regional MensBreakfast July30

Inside this issue:

Retooling Business 2

Feeding Program 3

Teaching 4

The Spiritans 5

Q&A 6

Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and Winning the Marketplace for Christ

The art of being happy lies in the power of finding happiness in ordinary things. Life does not force us to be the best; it only asks that we try.

Message for theMonth:

Man does not

live by breadalone. Do not betroubled, havefaith

Concelebrated Mass with Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma D.D.

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The forum was at-tended by 170 men andwomen from the variousbusiness groups of MetroCebu like the Cebu Busi-ness Club, Mandaue Busi-ness Club, Cebu CityChamber of Commerceand the BCBP. About 30businessmen from the 7Cebu chapters of theBCBP attended, includingBCBP President LarryVeloso, Area ManagingDirector Mayong Rodri-guez, several ChapterHeads and the Cebu Re-gional Council DirectorHector Tina.

tized. He even slowly evan- gelized his family and slowly introduced Mama Mary and also the 7 sacra-ments. Amazingly hiswhole family was converted and all of them were bap-tized in the catholic church.

The well attended event was highlighted with thecelebration of the HOLY

MASS concelebrated by m a n y p r i e s t s w i t h

Archbishop Jose Palma asmain celebrant.

were 22 organizations whoparticipated in that event. Monsignor Freder-ick Kriekenbeek, the first speaker, welcomed thedifferent groups in atten-dance. Some speakers

gave testimonies that really touched and inspired us.One spectacular testimony that really touched me and maybe most of the audi-ence was that of Pastor

Noe of the Protestant Church. He was a pas-tor for 15 years and wasa founder of his own con-

gregation. He came fromthe family of pastors and evangelizers. He wasconverted to the Catholic Church and was bap-

than those who live near inLapulapu City.

I was really over-whelmed by the praise and worship. And I know GODwas even happier seeing the big crowd singing praisesongs and really dancing with joy. I even wanted my two sons to be there but they have also an activity with their Youth for Christ Community. I texted somefriends to come because Ireally wanted to share thesame joy I had experienced.

The event formally opened with the parade of banners of different charis-matic and church organiza-tions including BCBP. There

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Walk with purpose but with calmness. Speak with passion but with peace. Act with energy but withserenity. Walk with God today and everyday .

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Cebu Charismatic (continued from page 1)

BCBP Mactan Bros. and Sis.

The bulk of the attendeesfrom different charismatic

communities

A forum on Church-Business Partnership washeld at the Harolds Ho-tel, Cebu City, on May18, 2011, through theinvitation of the newArchbishop of Cebu, JoseS. Palma. The forum wassponsored by the Broth-erhood of Christian Busi-nessmen and Profession-als Cebu Region, incooperation with Cou-ples For Christ and BLD.The theme of the forumwas Retooling Businessand Church for SocialResponsibility Challenges.

Bishop Palma in the

Retooling Business and Church for Social Responsibility Challengesforum expressed his de-sire to reach out to thebusiness community of Cebu to hasten his grad-ual immersion into theconcerns of business andprofessional people of thearchdiocese. He articu-lated his ideas in his talk entitled: Vision onChurch-Business Partner-ship. This was followedby a talk on Helpful Con-siderations in Church-Business Partnership bythe Most Rev. GerardoA. Alminaza, D.D., Auxil-iary Bishop of Jaro, Iloilo.A 20-minute open forumwas held after each talk.

Editor www.bcbp-phil.com

Cebu Archbishop

Jose S. Palma D.D.


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Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a vision. Live well today and youll make every yesterday a joyful memory and every tomorrow a vision full of hope.

Moving on

registered nurse hope topractice their professions

and raise their fouryoung children there.Ate Vilma Cadimas

has left the country tobe with her new inspira-tion in California.

The community wishthem all the blessings theLord will shower uponthem. May they alsobring to their new place

of residence the faithwhich BCBP Mactan hel-ped nurtured in theirhearts.

God bless Kuya Do-dong , Ate Lanie, and AteVilma. We will miss you!

They say life is a jour-ney, that life is a cycle of

ups and downs and mov-ing on.A dear couple and a

sister in the communityare leaving us to ventureinto another chapter of their lifes journey.Though it feels sad thatthey are leaving but weare happy for them asthey courageously and

faithfully made thesemajor decisions in theirlife.

Kuya Dodong and AteLanie Berdin and childrenwill be leaving end of Julyfor Canada. KuyaDodong, an electricalengineer and Ate Lanie, a

Vilma Cadimas

Governance Team Feeds the Children of Calubian

The team served thechildren generously bid-ding them to come forsecond or third servings.Many went home withtheir bowls filled withPospas for their siblingsleft at home.

The feeding is a socialaction program of SacredHeart of Jesus Parish of Pajac which our commu-nity supports as sponsorevery first Sunday of themonth.

The first Sunday of June was another oppor-tunity for our communityto feed the children in adepressed area of Lapu-Lapu City. This time thehost team was the Gov-ernance and the recipi-

ents were the children of sitio Calubian of barangayPajac.

The governance team,led by our chapter headMartin Pusta, preparedthree kettles full of deli-cious Pospas. More thanfifty children enjoyed thePospas and boiled eggs.

The children enjoying the delicious Pospas

Ate Vilma being prayed over

Kuya Dodong, Ate Lanie, and their children


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Charity is your investment in heaven. And what matters in this investment is not how muchyou give, but your attitude in giving .

Celebrating MidlifeTeaching

Fr. Fidel Orendain who celebrated our first Friday Mass gave a talk on Midlife.The purpose of the teaching is to prepare us for it so that when it comes we gothru it intact.

Midlife begins at age 40. We call this experience as depression. At this pointalmost everything makes a person sad. There is a feeling of something is wrong.Midlife keeps the person away from the joy of ordinary life. When this happensFather said, Do not deny going through it. Enter into the darkness with intelli-gence. Walk into the midst of the trial. Do not run away from it. Denying it makesit more complicated.

Midlife could be both a pain and a deliverance. If approached properly it couldbe tranquil. It is like pruning a tree, cleaning it to make room for growth.

Life is a journey. It is to be lived fully at each step. All stages are necessary for aperson to become whole. A persons life is shaped by family, religion, culture,childhood experiences, etc.

At midlife there is a crisis of meaning. Questions surface like: Am I happy today? May meaning ba ang buhay ko? At midlife something in the person is giving up. Weare not as we are before. Something has changed like loss of intensity in relation-ship. Since these experiences are human nature, it cannot be transitioned withoutspiritual component. The challenge is balancing the polarities. Midlife is a wakeupcall. It demands a change in consciousness to explore the bigger you.

What to do and how to prepare for it?Physical

- take care of your health, exercise- find time to rest and recharge- be aware of changes in your body and how it affects you

Mental- understand what is going on- intellectual stimulation (read, learn new skill)- make plans, set goals

Emotional- pay attention to relationship, to your feelings

- learn to express emotions- be creative

Spiritual- silence, meditation, prayer- increase faith in God-know and believe that all these happen for a reason- be aware and stick to your values

Fr. Fidel Orendain SDB


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The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (full title, Congregation of the Holy

Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary , or inLatin, Congregatio Sancti Spiritus sub tutela Immaculati Cordis Beatissimae Virginis

Mariae , and thus abbreviated C.S.Sp. ) is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests, laybrothers, and since Vatican II, lay associates. Congregation members are knownas Spiritans in Continental Europe, and as the Holy Ghost Fathers in English-speakingcountries, although even there, they are becoming known as Spiritans. A Spiritan priestor brother has the abbreviation C.S.Sp.after his name.

The Spiritans were founded in Paris on Whit Sunday 1703 for the purpose of prepar-ing missionaries for the most abandoned souls, whether in Christian or non-Christiancountries by a young, holy ecclesiastic of noble Breton birth and of brilliant talents, awealthy young Breton lawyer, Claude-Franois Poullart des Places, who, three years

previously, in the twenty-first year of his age, had given up the bright prospects of a par-liamentary lawyer to embrace the ecclesiastical state. Having opted for the priesthoodhimself, he wanted to form a religious order for young men who had a vocation to be-come priests but were too poor to do so. From the very beginning of his ecclesiasticalstudies he manifested a particular attraction for lowly and neglected works of charity. Hebecame especially interested in poor, deserving students, on whom he freely spent all hisown private means and as much as he could collect from his friends. It was with a dozenof these gathered round him that he opened the Seminary of the Holy Ghost, whichafterwards developed into a religious society.

The community, formed in dedication to the Holy Spirit to minister to the poor andto provide chaplains in hospitals, prisons, and schools, soon developed a missionary role

- some volunteered for service in the Far East and North America - and by 1765the Holy See was entrusting it with direct care of South American missionary territorieslike French Guiana. 1,300 priests had been trained in the years leading up to 1792, whenthe actions of the seminary was suppressed by the French Revolution.

The work grew rapidly; but the labours and anxieties connected with the foundationproved too much for the frail health of the founder. He died on 2 October 1709, in thethirty-first year of his age, and in only the third of his priesthood. The portraits whichremain of Father Poullart des Places depict a distinguished and intelligent countenance,combining energy with sweetness.

After the founder's death, the Congregation of the Holy Ghost continued to pro-gress; it became fully organized, and received the approbation of the civil and ecclesiasti-cal authorities. It sent missionaries to the French colonies, and to India and China, butsuffered much from the French Revolution. The congregation's numbers in Europe de-clined sharply until 1802, when the Napoleonic government allowed the seminary toreopen and the congregation was asked to focus on supplying priests for work in theFrench colonies in Africa, the West Indies and the Indian subcontinent.

The core of mission remains constant the proclamation of the Good News of Jesusto those who have never heard it at all and to those who have heard it inadequately. Butthe manner in which this is accomplished varies according to context and opportunity.The goal is always to establish a viable local faith community with its own leadership,incorporating the language and customs of the people.

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Each day is an offering of love, a gift only God can deliver, and the way we use each shining hour is our gift of thanks to the giver .

The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans)

Fr. Martin

Fr. Martin Okafor-Ilozue CSSp - BCBP Mactan BCLP19
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"Sacred objects, set aside for divine worship by dedication or blessing, are to be treated withreverence. They are not to be made over to secular or inappropriate use, even though they maybelong to private persons" (CIC 1171).

Essentially, sacramentals such as rosaries must be treated with respect, particularly if they havebeen blessed. Reverence is the attitude of awe or respect that is most often given to sacredthings. By its very definition, it is an interior disposition that usually cannot be determined byonlookers by appearances alone. A person may be wearing a rosary as a statement of faith, tokeep it handy for praying throughout the day, or to avoid losing it. Those reasons would be in-

dicative of reverence and would not interfere with the canons directive that sacramentals mustbe treated reverently.

Ordinarily speaking, then, if someone is spotted wearing a rosary, he should be charitably pre-sumed to be wearing it for just reasons. Only if the rosary is being put to an objectively sordiduse (e.g., a rock star is using it as a prop in a music video, obscenely contrasting the symbolicpurity of the rosary with the immodest or immoral actions of the performers) can we be surethat the rosary is being treated irreverently.

(forums.catholic.com - Michelle Arnold)

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Daily blessings are reminders of God. Worry ends where faith in God begins. In prayer, God hears more than words. He listens to your heart .

As if my being sick

twice in the month of May was not enough, Igot hospitalized last June14 due to very high feverof unknown cause.

At this time of theyear when we are finan-cially drained due toschool needs, we cannotafford to be sick. Buthere I was, getting sick.

The doctor gave me afood supplement that willboost my immune sys-tem, the cost of which is

way beyond our means.

Amidst all these though,God was there telling meDo not be afraid, I cancalm the storms, I can healyour illness.

True enough the Lordsent help through my sis-ters, who when theylearned I was sick again,took time to call and givesupport.

To top it all, there arebrothers and sisters of BCBP Mactan who prayedfor my healing. After two

days, I checked out of

the hospital.Here I am again up

and about, doing verywell. I know this is notthe end of storms thatmay hit our life. Butwho is afraid of stormswhen there is someonebigger and mightier thanthe storm - Jesus, myLord and my God.

Nery Gula

The Storms of Life

Can a rosary be worn as a piece of jewelry?

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Faith allows impossible things to happen, it is the force that comes only from a fearless heart, and when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen .


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Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Mactan Chapter BREAKFASTVenue: Crown Regency SuitesWeekly Schedule: Saturday 7:30 - 10:00 AM

1st Wk: Mens 2nd Wk: Joint (Mens & Ladies)

3rd Wk: Mens 4th Wk: Simultaneous (Mens & Ladies) Contact Person: Doxie Cabasagan CP# 0920 4766218

Chapter Head:

Martin B. Pusta

visit:

www.bcbp-phil.com

Gentleness requires tremendous strength. Gentleness is having the power not to react when everything about the circumstance says you should Gentleness is the beginning of learning what love is all about

Our Vision: Bringing Christ into the Marketplace andWinning the Marketplace for Christ

The BCBP is a community of like-minded Christian Businessmen

and Professionals who have consciously decided to band together to bring about the transformation of the marketplace.

June Breakfast Sharers

Romy Mauro ( June 4) BCBP Cebu-Central I was once a prayerless person but with BCBP I

became prayerful.

Dodong and Lanie Berdin ( June 11) BCBP Mactan He, being a faithful God will never forsake His people. We hope to be Hisevangelizers too in the place He is bringing us Kuya Dodong and Ate Lanie with their children are migrating to Canada.

Nono Tan ( June 18) BCBP Cebu-SouthI no longer seek to destroy the enemy (competitor) but peaceful coexistencewith my rivals Bro. Nono is into noodles manufacturing and soft drinks distribution business.

Tata and Jo Briones ( June 25) BCBP Ipil (Zamboanga, Sibugay)Trials are Gods ways of polishing us and testing our endur-ance Bro. Tata and Sis. Jo are the present outreach head of BCBP Ipil.

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