Jesus Enters Jerusalem (Mark 11:1-10)
Passion Sunday nears. Once more we will be re-enacting Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem with the waving of palm branches. Below is an illustration of how Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem connects with the account of his Passion and Death. (Click on the graphic for a bigger view.)
An article on Mark 11:1–10 — the Gospel selection for this Sunday’s re-enactment — is found here. The article on the Passion Narrative in Mark is found here.
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PREX and Other Things
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 work in the ministry. The advanced training module these four new BEC leaders will undergo will emphasize on the Scriptures as something read, meditated on and lived. Several months ago I wrote an article on Sentence Flows for our other BEC leaders. I posted it at AngFrayle.NET, but because the website had to be deactivated (hard times, you know), I have reposted the article here. With this article, I also modified the post on the “Eye-Ear/Heart/Hands-Feet Metaphor” which I have been trying to develop during these past years. The modification is minor in that I corrected a link that used to point to a section of the now defunct AngFrayle website. It now points to AgustinongPinoy where one can see it explained in a series of web pages.
The Spiritual Senses of Scriptures and the BEC
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 describes, the spiritual sense of Scriptures result from the faithful’s discussing what they have learned about the text of Scriptures (the exegetical part of a BEC meeting) and applying it to their lives. Mesters who is a biblical expert gives us a simple description of the way the Scriptures is read in grassroots communities: first, the Scriptures is read, then someone explains the text “objectively” — that is, as an exegete would — and finally, the faithful — the grassroots community — talk about the text learned. Surely, this kind of “meeting” gives no space to questions like “What in the text moved you?”. On the contrary, it goes beyond the emotional “faith-sharings” we normally observe in Bible prayer groups and asks the question: “What is the Spirit saying to you, the Community of Faith, today?” The answer to this question, an answer drawn from the members of a community that has grown familiar with the Word of God as they live it in their concrete reality, would be the “spiritual sense” of the text.
Cooking Up A Newsletter
The PREX Newsletter for the Mother of Good Counsel is now in PDF format and in a few days will be distributed in fotocopies. The distribution is quite limited, just a hundred copies. We hope that the maiden issue would inspire people to contribute to helping us widen the distribution of the fotocopied versions. The newsletter is also available for download. It can be downloaded from the PREX ng MGCP website here. The newsletter contains the following:
- Schedule of the next regular PREX Session with the announcement that the “experiences” following it will also be held in venues other than the MGCP Parish Hall
- Schedule for the PREX Speakers’ Bureau to be held at the Mater Ecclessiae School
- Report on the consequences of the change of the parish’s organizational setup
- Announcement of a new PREX component: the BEC Ministry training modules
The Visit to San Pedro Jail
This afternoon, the cell group of the Resurrection chapel visited the San Pedro jail. The visit is one of the resolutions made several weeks ago after we reflected on Matthew 25: 31–46 (Solemnity of Christ the King). Tatang Lito Mogridge coordinated and the appointment was set for December 13.
