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Mac t an Chapter
Special points of
interest:
Sports Fest launching
May 10, 2014
Inside this issue:
Sectoral Leaders
Meet
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Holy Week 4
Teaching 5
Prompted by the good outcome of last years search for Be Hon-est
role models in schools, the chapter awarded five high school
students from five National High Schools in Lapulapu City. The
awardees were chosen from among first-year to third-year
stu-dents.
The awarding ceremony was done during the Recognition Rites held
on the first week of April. The following students received a
plaque of appreciation, a Be Hon-est T-shirt, 1,000 pesos cash, and
school supplies:
1. Plutarch Jonel A. Degollacion - Babag National High
School
2. Dienver Y. Augusto - Bankal National High School
Chapter Gives Honesty Awards to Students
BCBP Celebrates 34th National Anniversary
PSD Eton Apao (center) and MD Tex Bu-lambot (left) giving the
award
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May 2014
Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and Winning the Marketplace
for Christ
TAYTAYAN
Br ot he rh o od o f
Ch r i s t i an
B us i ne ssm en
a n d
P r of es s i o na l s
May our hearts burn with love and courage as we continue to live
our mission inspired by the new life of
the risen Christ.
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Magandang GenSan in-deed! This was how Mactan delegates to NAC34
de-scribed the National anniver-sary at General Santos City on
April 25 & 26, 2014.
The 53 delegates who responded to the plea of BCBP GenSan CH and
NAC34 Chairman Danny
The Worship and General Assembly
Photo: BCBP Kapatid
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Chapter Gives (continued from page 1)
God's standards are not given to spoil our fun but to protect us
from the follies of life .
3. Christian Sullano - Lo-ok National High School
4. Jazyl Mae B. Pepito - Mactan National High School
5. Kate Pangatungan - Marigondon National
High School.
The principal of each school was given a Be Hon-est award poster
(tarpaulin) with the photo of the awardee for students to see and
serve as inspiration.
The award committee was headed by PSD Eton Apao and assisted by
Peping Roa, and Nara Paradero.
Babag National High School Awardee
Lo-ok National High School Awardee
Mactan National High School Awardee Marigondon National High
School Awardee
Plutarch Ionel A. Degollacion Babag National High School
Dienver Y. Augusto Bankal National High School
Christian Sullano Lo-ok National High School
Jazyl Mae B. Pepito Mactan National High School
Kate Pangatungan Marigondon National High School
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Hamoy, had a great time from start to finish of the two-day
celebration which was held at SM City, General Santos City.
The theme adopted this year, Change the Face of Business with
Honesty, Integrity and Excellence, challenged all members present
to live up to this call as BCBP journey onward to Christianize the
marketplace.
The spirit-filled Friday as-sembly led to a beautiful
ex-perience of being prayed over by a brother or a sister they just
met at the anniver-sary but the prayers and con-cern were
overflowing.
Wearing colorful T-shirts for Saturdays breakfast fellow-ship,
the delegates had a more beautiful morning listen-ing to the
sharing of Fr. Herb Schneider, Judge Gilbert Moises and Governor
Albert Uy of Zamboanga del Norte.
BCBP Celebrates (continued from page 1)
Saturday afternoons formal dinner was a sight with the more than
two thousand dele-gates from all over the country dressed in shades
of black and white. The fellowship was a great celebration of
thanksgiv-ing for the 34 years with the Lord. What with the fitting
feast promised by CH Danny plus all the sashimis?
Mactan delegates extended their stay to celebrate Kuya Cords
(Marcelino Cordova) birthday at Glan, South Cota-bato. They spent
Sunday at the beautiful Coco beach with its white sands and of
course an-other feast of the best of Cota-bato.
So Magandang GenSan! The anniversary activities plus the
beautiful sights to behold and exotic food to feast are among the
many unforgettable mo-ments Mactan delegates will treasure.
Mactan Leaders
Part of Mactan Delegates
Photo: BCBP Kapatid
The Breakfast sharers with BCBP Pres. Manny Jimenez
Celebrating Kuya Cords birthday at Coco Beach The delegates in
their colorful shirts
Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities, instead
raise your abilities to the height of
your goals.
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Life's battle doesn't always favor the stronger or faster ones,
because sooner or later, the one who
wins is the one whose heartbeat says, "With God I can.".
The Way of the Cross
Chapter Observes Holy Week
The chapter prepared for a holy observance of the Holy Week with
a Rec-ollection in the afternoon of April 12, 2014 at IAU
chapel.
Fr. Rudy Bugna, OSA, gave a beautiful and very refreshing talk
on how super ego differs from conscience. A Holy Mass was
cele-brated after the recollection after which the Way of the Cross
followed. The after-noon activity ended with a dinner fellowship at
the same venue.
On Good Friday, some members of the chapter were seen early at
SHJ Parish, Pajac for the tradi-tional Sto. Entiero carro
decoration.
The group headed by the Aballe couple, had been doing this
beautiful act of service for years. This time the group completed
the task before noon just in
time for lunch and rest be-fore returning back to church for the
afternoons veneration of the Cross.
Decorating the carro of the Santo Entiero
Mactan, Mandaue, and Consolacion Leaders Meet
Senior Leaders of Con-solacion, Mactan, and Man-daue met at
Montebello Villa Hotel on April 12, 2014 for fellowship and
business meeting. They brainstormed on what BCBP, through the
senior leaders
of these chapters, can do to assist civil servants attain honest
and excellent ser-vice.
The topic tackled was so broad that the group de-cided to focus
on Consola-cion local government as pilot case.
Jun Gula was also tasked to come-up with a master list of groups
and individu-
als in government who can be consulted or sought when help is
needed. Casi Nadela presiding
The Recollection
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God is the best listener, you don't need to shout nor cry out
loud because He hears even the very
silent prayer of a sincere heart
Formation of Super Ego or Conscience Teaching
Fr. Rodolfo A. Bugna, OSA
Super-Ego Conscience
Commands us to act for the sake of gaining approval, or out of
fear of losing love.
Responds to an invitation to love
Turned in toward self in order to se-
cure ones sense of being of value, of being lovable.
Fundamental openness that is ori-
ented toward the other and toward the value which calls for
action.
Tends to be static by merely repeat-ing a prior command.
Tends to be dynamic by a sensitivity to the demand of values
which call for new ways of responding.
Oriented primarily toward authority Oriented primarily toward
value
Primary attention is given to individ-ual acts as being
important in them-selves apart from the larger context or pattern
of actions.
Primary attention is to the larger proc-ess or pattern.
Individual acts become important within this larger context.
Oriented toward the past: The way we were.
Oriented toward the future: The sort of person one ought to
become.
Punishment is the sure guarantee of reconciliation.
Reparation comes through structuring the future orientation
toward the value in question.
The transition from guilt to self- re-newal comes fairly easily
and rapidly by means of confessing to the author-ity.
Self-renewal is a gradual process of growth which characterizes
all dimen-sions of personal development.
Often finds a great disproportion between feeling of guilt
experienced and the value at stake,
Experience of guilt is proportionate to the degree of knowledge
and free-dom as well as the weight of the value at stake,
Fr. Rodolfo A. Bugna, OSA
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Life provides us with many options, go on or give up, hold on or
let go, stay or leave, but its com-
forting to know that God remains faithful forever.
He saw and he believed
John 20:8
In one of the resurrection narratives, we heard the story about
how Mary Magdalene ran and told the apostles what she saw at the
tomb that early morning. How she saw the stone covering the tomb
already opened and on looking inside saw two angels with the burial
clothes folded and neatly placed in two places. We were told that
Peter and one of the apostles presumably
John, ran to the grave, John being younger arrived first but did
not go in, when Peter arrived, he went it straight. When John
eventually did, he saw and he believed.
What did he believed in from what he saw? An empty tomb, with
the burial clothes neatly folded and placed apart. If someone stole
the body of Jesus for whatever reasons as the Jewish leaders in
those days made us to believe, the person would not fold the burial
clothes, but would have carried the dead body with the linens,
secondly the only group to gain in Jesus body being stolen was his
followers and John knew they did not. So these two facts must have
led him to believe that only Jesus himself on resurrecting folded
the burial clothes and walked away from the tomb on his own.
There and then John came to that conclusion, he rose as he told
them and that made him to start thinking of all that Jesus told
them as true. He came to believe that Jesus is the son of the
Father that came from God, that his birth had nothing to do with
human conception, that his miracles were not magic and that the
spirit of God lived in him. Surprisingly not the physical Jesus
that led him to accept these facts, but rather his absence in the
grave.
Jesus absence was no longer an obstacle but a confirmation of
all that He is and did. Repeat-edly He explained to them the
importance of the messiah suffering and dying and on the third day
will rise again; at that instant while staring at the empty tomb,
John made that decision to give himself completely to the mission
of Jesus, now Christ. No wonder he gave the world one of the most
important narratives of who Jesus is and why He came to the
world.
He believed that Jesus was the great light that came to
transform the world from darkness, through the process of
incarnation became man in order to defeat sin in His body and
achieved the resurrection. He believed in the message of the
kingdom of God that was already estab-lished by Christ, but still
yet to be worked for through our following the teachings of Jesus.
He believed that Jesus was the messiah, the great prophet of God,
the healer of humanity and the great Shepherd that gave His life
for His sheep.
John the youngest of all the apostles did not hesitate to give
his entire life in serving the com-munity of believers, leading
them in the like manner of the chief Shepherd until his death at a
very ripe age. Like St. John let us embrace the empty tomb and make
sense of who we are and its implication for us. This will help us
also to give our entire life in serving our brothers and sis-ters
and faithfully without compromising following Jesus here on earth
in order to rise and reign with him in his heavenly kingdom.
Fr. Martin Okafor-Ilozue CSSp - BCBP Mactan BCLP19
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People are like stained glass windows, so colorful, but their
true beauty is revealed only if there is
light within .
Vatican News
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BRINGING CHRIST INTO THE MARKETPLACE AND WINNING THE MARKETPLACE
FOR CHRIST
Mactan Chap te r
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professionals who have
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Siegfred and Helen Lanticse (April 12)
BCBP Consolacion
Like the open sea, our life was beset by turbulences
April 2014 Breakfast Sharers
Fe Carballo (April 5)
BCBP Cebu-South
they discovered that there was a tumor in my large intestine and
was diag-nosed as colon cancer... It was really hard to accept the
findings and if not for my faith in God and being with BCBP where I
learned to entrust every-thing to the Lord.
No one is rich enough to buy back yesterday. But if you have the
courage to do better things today,
you would be the richest one tomorrow .
Magno Garcia (April 5)
BCBP Consolacion
It was only in the BCMR that I realize my lapses. Our live-in
arrangement
was displeasing to God and I did not correct my mistake. God
gave me
another chance.
