CBCP - BEC National Assembly 2005

CREATING A

CULTURE OF SUSTAINABILITY FOR BECS

Venue: DEC-ECOTECH center, Lahug, Cebu City

September 19-22, 2005

P R O G R A M

Sept. 19, Monday

Arrival and Registration (8am-430 pm)

Community-building Activities (4:30 pm)

Orientation to the Assembly

Liturgy (Presider: Cardinal Ricardo Vidal)

Dinner

Sept. 20, Tuesday

AM

Diocesan Inputs (Presentation of Diocesan Survey Results)

Small-group (random) sharing: Stories on how specific BECs were sustained

Reporting of Output of small groups: Significant Elements & New Challenges

PM

TALK # 1: FILIPINO CULTURE AND BECS (Msgr. Manny Gabriel)

Reactors: Bro. Karl Gaspar, CSsR and Dean Dicen

Workshops

Sept. 21, Wednesday

AM

TALK # 2: CHURCH CULTURE AND BECS (Msgr. Joemari Delgado)

Reactors: Epee Casungcad and Fr. Albert Rabe

Workshops

PM

TALK # 3: BECS AS CATALYSTS FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION (Fr. Amado Picardal, CSsR)

Reactors: Sr. Rosanne Malillin, SPC and Msgr. Meliton Oso

Workshops

SOLIDARITY NIGHT

Sept. 22, Thursday

AM

Regional (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao) Sharing and Reports

Expectations and Planning for the CBCP National BEC Desk

Assembly Statement Approval

Final Liturgy (Presider: Archbishop Quevedo)

LUNCH and HOME-SWEET-HOME

Organizing and Steering Committee:

Archbishop Orlando Quevedo

Estela Padilla

Msgr. Manny Gabriel

Msgr. Joemari Delgado

Fr. Amado Picardal, CSsR

Attendance: 66 diocese represented, total of 232 participants, 11 bishops, 88 priests, 16 religious sisters and brothers, 109 lay people, 7 observers from Korea and 1 from India.