What is true development

What is true development

Development has many equations and concepts with a common denominator of betterment & goodness. But the question lies on the difference between personal gain and the ability to develop for the good of all which is essentially a kind of development that enforced to help the weak, the poor, the powerless, the people and the environment in general.

The fact that development can also reduce the community to futility and pervert the ecology when it utilizes all the elements of forces to serve egocentric interests, like sending their political weapon and ego, through coded call of itapon sila sa basurahang kawalan. Is this a kind of noxious menace or simply a dictatorial cowardice or worst the lifestyle of meaninglessness?

The function of this kind of living is in fact the act of propelling one self over another. It is what psychologists define as ego-consciousness, the wretched form of consciousness that is vest to the animal instinct of survival... The “survival of the fittest”. Will they do anything to suppress the weak in order to survive? Are they viewing the world with the cold eyes of predators that must prevail at any cost at the expense of imbecilic and egoistic mind or simply promoting cowardice?

Then, who are the fittest in this secular world or on this secluded islands? Who are these spineless kings and queens of their own palaces & villas?

Again and again what is true development? Is it building accesses for one’s own survival while moral tradition collapses? Is it the same as making business from govt expense to build political kingdoms in the guise of community service? Or is it the reflection and innovation of growth that encounter and conquer the complexities of modern life? Can we call these courts growth?

What is development? Is it the realization of heroism, or just a way of escaping this boredom existence and at the same time endorsing apathy or torpidity from these so called imbecile fainthearted minds?

What is true development? Is it the conservation & protection of aesthetic beauty to conquer the complexity of modernity?

What is true development? Is it preserving the tangible & intangible historical treasure and the protection of natural & ecological gems, or is it their contracted roads or buildings that conceptualized ridiculous ideas of an apocryphal claims of serving the people? Is it the dawning and a call from the depths of actuality where these goodness are made to articulate the spirit of involvements? Or is it just a plain political dominion or power tripping? Why are they confusing? Why are self-proclaimed development became so disgraceful, bogus and blasphemous? Pretending like gods & serving just to lord over it?

Why is it always painful to go out there and view this kind of devolution and be lost to this abysmal void that hurt with the shameless plasticity of it all? Do we have to manipulate the people & the eco-system to gain power & wealth, to clog & cast off commonality while proclaiming this sham progress? Then we can only quest, what is this deadly greedy thing?

Why is it that their so called development seems to have lost its spirit of common sense? True development must be founded in traditional morality if not immortality..

What are great achievements and strides made of? Why does it seem that while they're announcing their self-imposed accomplishments and achievements, we only found the equal deterioration of the bayanihan spirit found in community, we detect misguided spirit of oneness and solidarity? Are these roads to perdition made of apathy & torpidity? Some kind of destruction or exploitation of our nature?

The manipulations and lies of twisted development are being revealed when money becomes the only essential commodity to feed this carnal body. If they instinctively think that they’re just serving survival instinct... then life might become unbearable, unreasonable, vexatious and sickening, so ugly, lonely and perverted. Where do we go from here?! Transforming the roads into shenanigan?

Development includes everybody and can be created through laws by the president or governor or mayor or any other leaders, as a kind of system. Yes indeed a system is a system that without which we cannot function in a civilized society. Yet some kind of system were imposed in order to create an illusion of control, like the rules of systematic corruptions inside the institution, or rather it became a shambolic regime.

But in truth the problem lies not in this kind of system or laws but in the hearts of men or women where their own system becomes the means to an end. It is a kind of system where advancement has been assigned to mere survival - creating witless die-hard minions to denounce involvement, belongingness, in place of golden calf or the idolatry of moderated greed and worst of all the obnoxious indifference & callousness.

But development is not for the foolish heart nor for those ego-conscious-mind who only serve their brute instinct where common sense and reason became irrelevant and nonsense. Please, it is not for them all!

Development should be the backbone of an institution or community or town. It must be creative & effective, it must produce good, beautiful and meaningful effect & result. Its created projects and programs must depict, capture and prove great achievements & heroism, a way of life and values like what our grandparents deed. Without them, a place may not have been existed. Gifted minds that move the course of the community’s future also know the value of development as an essential component in the promotion of the ethics of true life. Evolvement is a community canonization. It is therefore the common denominator of real & unquestionable of what truly is development; to the people, for the people and by the people… yet look around us?

Probably the reason we do not have an authentic sense of development is that we do not have the wisdom or a sense of history.

The best thing we can truly evolve is not to have more self-proclaimed developments and abuse or degrade the natural resources, but rather how to be genuinely productive and go back to the great idea that this betterment must have a true value of caring & respecting the community together with the protection & conservation of natural world or the environment.. are we unfortunately enough to lose the opportunity of reckoning at this very moment of time??!

Awaken us heavens, we pray.

 

Republika ng Pilipinas
BAYAN NG CULION
Lalawigan ng Palawan

Hulyo 16, 2020

SEC. ALFONSO CUSI
Secretary, Department of Energy
2F PNOC Building V, Energy Center
Rizal Drive, 34th St. Taguig, 1632
Kalakhang Manila

PETISYON PARA SA ISANG IMBESTIGASYON NG BISELCO, CULION AT NAPOCOR SA MADALAS NANG BROWNOUT SA LOOB NA NG TATLONG TAON SA BAYAN NG CULION.

Kami pong mga mamamayan ng Culion ay humihiling ng tahasang imbestigasyon at kaukulang solusyon sa madalas na brownout sa bayan ng Culion sa loob na ng tatlong taon.

SAPAGKAT, kamakailan lamang, sa buwan ng Hunyo at Hulyo ngayong taong kasalukuyan ay madalas ang brownout halos tatlong beses at apat na beses sa loob ng isang araw;

SAPAGKAT ang problemang ito ng madalas na brownout ay halos tatlong taon na at mukhang lumalala pa ang sitwasyon;

SAPAGKAT, napakalaking perwisyo ang madalas na brownout sa pagtatrabaho, paghahanapbuhay at mga negosyo;

SAPAGKAT ang madalas na brownout ay sumira na at nakakasira ng mga pinagsikapan at pinagpagurang mga gamit o appliances ng bawat pamilya;

SAPAGKAT, sa pakiwari naming ay tumataas ang aming bayarin sa kuryente dahil sa biglaang pagpatay at pagbabalik ng kuryente;

SAPAGKAT, ang madalas na brown-out ay umaantala ng mga serbisyo ng mga ahensya ng gobyerno, ito man ay sa nasyonal, o munisipyo. Ito rin ay maaring sumira sa mahahalaga at mamahaling kagamitan ng pangunahing ospital sa na tumutugon sa Bayan ng Culion, Coron at Busuanga, ang Culion Sanitarium and General Hospital.

SAPAGKAT, sa tuwing may problema ng brownout ay nagsisihan ang BISELCO AT NAPOCOR kung sino ang sanhi ng madalas at nakakaperwisyong brownout;

SAPAGKAT, napapansin namin ay hindi maayos na ugnayan o koordinasyonng dalawang ahensyang ito;

KAYA NGA, aming pinapapasyahan na dalhin ang usapin ito sa antas ng national government, sa Department of Energy at gayundin sa Opisina ng Presidente ng Pilipinas upang agarang maimbestiga ang problemang ito, malapatan ng mabilisang solusyon at mapanagot ang mga taong nagiging dahilan ng mapinsalang brownouts at di- maayos na serbisyo sa mga mamayan ng Culion.

Pinagpapasyahan din namin na bigyan ng kopya ng Petisyon ang lahat ng kinauukulang ahensya para sa kanilang kaalaman at nararapat na hakbangin:

BISELCO / NAPOCOR

Energy Regulatory Board (ERB)

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

OFFICE OF THE REP. 1st district

Office of the Mayor

Sangguniang Bayan ng Culion (SB)

Nagkakaisang Lagda:

Pangalan           /             Pirma            

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MANIFESTO (Patag School Site)

 

MANIFESTO

THE CASE OF PROPOSED PATAG HIGH SCHOOL SITE 

Public interest always prevail over private interest.

Background:

The area is located at sitio Parang Bgy. Malaking Patag. As student population increases, from Botnongan, Demipac, Kabul Kabul, Dita, and Quezon, there is a need to establish a new school site in Patag. And expand the high school to meet demand for more classrooms and other facilities.

The proposed site is ideal for the school. It is accessible, with enough space for classroom, parade ground and sports facilities necessary for any school system.

It was originally owned by Pacifico Setias (lolo Fico) and sold to Mr. and Mrs. Lisboa. Please see attached documents.

And Mr. Lisboa before his death promised the people of Patag that he will donate that parcel of land for the school.

And the heirs will be willing to fulfill the wish of their parents.

 

Now,

A private individual is adversely claiming this proposed school site. This is on the pretext that the original owner has willed it for them without any proof and they are not relative as testified by then Ms. Omiterdam now Mrs. Ellana as the real remaining relative of lolo Fiko.

Fact is, Mrs. Ellana signed the deed of sale in favor of Mrs. Lisboa. It can be noted that lolo Fiko, Mr Serdena and Mrs. Lisboa are kababayan from Iloilo. And lolo Fiko has sold his land to Mrs. Lisboa inluding other lands in Kabul Kabul. Attached pls. find pertinent documents.

The DENR has surveyed the area in favor of the school. But they retracted to favor Mr Serdena.

A former bgy. kagawad is contesting Mr. Serdena’s claim. In fact they have passed resolution in the past, including affidavit of 3 other disinterested people who are original settlers of Patag. Attached please find pertinent documents.

The dispute is now being referred to the LGU. And the DENR is the authority over this land claim. Meanwhile, R.A. 9032 under sec 5 provides, that it is the municipality. See sec. 5 of R.A. 9032

The municipality should uphold public interest over individual interest. It should favor people’s need for the good of the greater majority.

This is a basic tenet for any government entity. LGU, DENR and other concerned agency in land disposition in Culion should stand for public interest

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An open letter to culion municipality and all concerned agencies.

 An open letter to the municipality and all concerned agencies.

Before any program or plan a municipality may develop or perceived, one of the most important consideration they must ensure is social acceptability.

It is what local government unit is all about. Self-determination. Determination of the will of the people.

We elect leaders to embody our ideals, promote our peoples welfare.

They represent us, and they are duty bound to serve.

Who are our leaders now? Who decide over our welfare? We ask this for we are concern with what we are seeing... With what we are hearing, and what we are knowing.

We are hearing stories that a new airport will be constructed in Patag. So, we ask DOTR, DENR, and DILG

And we are hearing a non-elected official is now leading in the framing of our CLUP. DECIDING WITHOUT CONSULTATION. What is our SB doing? Do they also follow the will of one person?

The task of framing the CLUP must be based on what is the WILL of the people of Culion. LGU must consult and hear the people first. And the SB must be the author of zoning ordinance. The enabling act of the CLUP

That is mandated to sb. What is mandated cannot be relegated. MPDO SHOULD LEAD CLUP. Nobody can usurp the authority mandated to them. Especially if that nobody is bonafide resident of Culion.

We are not indolent because we know our rights. The right to be consulted is un-alienable right. It is enshrined in our constitution.

Right or wrong our will as the people of Culion must decide the future of Culion

The most fundamental development plan for Culion is the CLUP. IT IS THE BIBLE WE FOLLOW AS A PEOPLE. And it cannot be based on whims and caprices to favor the few.

Especially if that few individual is not a bonafide resident of Culion.

Malasakit at serbisyo hinahanap namin sa inyo SB. Nasa inyo namin pinagkatiwala ang bayan natin.

So we implore to you now these:

1. Consult the people, and hear our opinion regarding the CLUP.

2. Do not allow anybody to dictate you on what must be for our welfare. We are the stakeholder.

3. Conduct Public Hearing. Social acceptability of any plan is required by law and it must be followed

4. Involved all line agencies specially DENR, DOTR and what is provided in R.A. 9032. DOH, PCSDS, DA, PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT, REP 1st district.

 

It is the municipality who shall determine which land must belong... As provided by R. A. 9032. In coordination with these aforementioned agencies. And the municipality as the local government code provides, mandates the Sanguniang Bayan to provide the policies as a guide to proper disposition of land and all other future plans

This mandate cannot be relegated. The SB should be the one to conduct public consultation. You are our elected representative.

Why do you plan in close door meeting without public knowledge? Why a certain Maxim Raymundo is leading you in this plan? Does he speak in behalf of the mayor? He cannot usurp the power of the LCE.

It is your duty to protect our interest. You have the power of the first. And that is incumbent upon you to provide us the basic policy in the implementation of the law. A law that is meant to emancipate the people of Culion.

Culion as a former leper colony belong to the people who are originally the leper patients. The government employees that served the patients and now that includes their children.

So it is important to recognize these people. We suffered enough and sacrifice so much. And it is but right to empower these people. Entitle them own land.

It is your decision that will break or make up our destiny and dream. It is now in your hand that we believe and listen to us.

And we affix our signature to manifest our firm desire and belief you will listen to our voice.

Sino ang tunay na baliw?

Sino ang tunay na baliw?

Iyun bang mga nagayuma na ang isip at ginawa ng alipin ang puso ng kasamaan

Naging alipin na ba sa dikta ng kasakiman at minamanipula pa ang lahat

Pinatay na ang kakayanang maging tunay na mapagmalasakit, maawain at matulungin

Nasilaw na sa kapangyarihan at nalunod na sa luho, karangyaan, kapalaluan at kabastusan

Iwinaksi na ang tunay na kagandahan, katotohanan at kabutihan at ipinagpalit na sa mga bisyo ng kalaswaan, kasinungalingan at karahasan.

alipin na ng kasakiman tulad ng pagpapahirap kahit sa mga kaibigan o kababayan para lang sa kaperahan.

Sinisiraan pa ang mga nagku-question sa kanilang ginagawa at puro character assassination.

Hindi patas ang hustisya lahat pabor sa kanila at binusalan ang kalayaang ipahayag ang katotohanan.

Ito ang tinatawag ng mga sikologo na pinakamababang uri ng ugali o pamumuhay, tulad ng matira ang matibay. Wala nang pakialam sa tao o sa mamamayan, dahil lamang sa "price tag" o money money money at kapangyarihan. 

Sino ang tunay na baliw? 

May isang sa yaman ay salapi ang hinihigan

Ngunit ang gintong baul puro nakaw ang laman

May isa iba ang awit na alam

buong araw kung maglingkod daw,

sinungaling rin naman

May gayak panay diyamante at hiyas

Ngunit oras maghubad puro ahas ang balat



Sinong mapalad

Sinong tumatawag ng habag



Iyun bang Husto sa gulang, ngunit sa pag-ibig ba'y kapos?

Sinong dakila

Sino nga ba. Sino nga ba ang tunay na baliw...



baka hindi lang na maituturing baliw. Isa na pala itong halimaw?

POPE FRANCIS AND THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY

The complete text of the catechesis by Fr. Pezzi – in both written and oral versions, the latter with spontaneous comments from Kiko - is in the highly detailed account for the internal use of the “live-in.” But this summary is enough to grasp its importance.

It will not be easy for the proponents of innovation in the matter of Catholic marriage to ignore this powerful voice to the contrary.

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POPE FRANCIS AND THE SYNOD ON THE FAMILY

by Mario Pezzi


The famous and criticized report of Cardinal Kasper is in five points, and only one of them deals with communion for the divorced and remarried, all of the others deal with the traditional doctrine of the Church. The pope once said: I am surprised that the press talks only about one point, and does not talk about the others. This is why I invite you not to pay attention to what the newspapers and television say, because everyone is pressuring the pope to be open to the world. Don't fall for it. Many times Father Lombardi has had to respond to the misinterpretation and misuse of the pope’s words.

In this catechesis we will not address the most burning issues, we will leave those to the synod fathers and to the pope, but we will talk about gender ideology, about the Christian family in the light of divine revelation, and finally about “Humanae Vitae” by Paul VI, which has been highly contested and rejected but which Pope Francis has wanted to revive.


GENDER IDEOLOGY


Pope Benedict XVI, on the occasion of his Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia in 2012, made an historic discourse, affirming that today we find ourselves before an epochal change, similar to that which happened at the time of the fall of the Roman empire and the invasion of the barbarian peoples. There is a decline in the foundations of society, of Catholic civilization.

Pope John Paul II himself said at Fatima in 1982: “What was once considered sin has now acquired the right of citizenship."

There have been many attacks against the Christian family in history. The latest virulent attack is represented by so-called "gender ideology."

Powerful lobbies are imposing this ideology as a dictatorship. Among the philosophical roots that have generated this monster that is threatening our families, especially in the schools, is Marxism.

In Marx, the notion that the essence of man is that of being able to create himself is connected to the overcoming of sexual gender and the destruction of the family.

The debate over gender then moved above all to the United States, where the idea that there are two sexes has been completely left behind. Instead of two genders there became five: male, female, gay, lesbian, and transgender. But in keeping with the anti-naturalistic approach, since man can create himself, the figure of 17 genders has been reached. There are even some today who count 51: the more the merrier.

Gender theory also reveals its Gnostic origin. The enemy for gnosis is not sex in itself, but sex as procreative, because producing children means contributing to the creative work of the wicked god.

It has been discovered that radical feminism is intimately connected to satanic worship. When Pope Francis has been asked about this aggression, he has said: it is the fruit of the devil who wants to destroy.

The myth of the transcendence of gender is also found in the Gnostic formulations of Freemasonry, which, at the highest levels of initiation, has the worship of the devil depicted with androgynous characteristics.

Gender theory implies a complete anthropological redefinition of the human essence. Man's attempt to take the place of God.

It has its historical origins in the anti-procreation planning beginning in the 1960’s, with the propaganda for contraception and abortion and the campaign for the use of the RU-486 pill.

When the episcopal conference of the United States adopted the formula "family planning,” the Vatican intervened to have it changed. Because it's misleading. The Christian is not the one who plans.

What does the Church say about this gender ideology? Pope Benedict XVI has said it, citing chief rabbi of France Gilles Bernheim:

“Man calls his nature into question. The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man’s fundamental choice where he himself is concerned. From now on there is only the abstract human being, who chooses for himself what his nature is to be. Man and woman in their created state as complementary versions of what it means to be human are disputed. But if there is no pre-ordained duality of man and woman in creation, then neither is the family any longer a reality established by creation. Likewise, the child has lost the place he had occupied hitherto and the dignity pertaining to him. Bernheim shows that now, perforce, from being a subject of rights, the child has become an object to which people have a right and which they have a right to obtain. When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man. The defence of the family is about man himself.”


THE FAMILY IN THE LIGHT OF DIVINE REVELATION


The apostolic exhortation “Familiaris Consortio,” written by Pope John Paul II at the end of the synod on the family in 1980, still remains relevant today. And so does that beautiful post-synodal apostolic exhortation “Sacramentum Caritatis” of Pope Benedict XVI, which says: “The Eucharist inexhaustibly strengthens the indissoluble unity and love of every Christian marriage.”

Because of this, marriage is indissoluble. Pope Francis has clearly said that he is not going to change the doctrine of the Church as they say or as they want to make him say, because what God has united man cannot separate. The Church does not have the power. The conjugal bond is intrinsically connected to the Eucharistic unity between Christ the bridegroom and the Church his bride, a love that has its culminating point in the Cross, the expression of his "wedding" with humanity and, at the same time, the origin and center of the Eucharist.

There is no love without the cross. So "making love," as young people say, is pure falsehood. This is not a matter of love but of concupiscence, of attraction, etc. This is why the Church asks that there be no relations before marriage, because one comes to a certain point at which one is no longer free. I remember that at the beginning of the Way one of us came to say that he had decided to leave his girlfriend. He told Kiko and Carmen that she had threatened to kill herself, and had already made three suicide attempts, and he asked: what should I do? Kiko and Carmen replied to him: tell her she can go ahead and kill herself, God will provide. He left her, she did not commit suicide, and today he is happily married. Blackmail is easy.


RELEVANCE OF “HUMANAE VITAE"


Thanks be to God, Pope Francis inserted “Humanae Vitae” into the pre-synodal questionnaire and asked what the people think about it. It emerged that very many know nothing about it, because the priests have never presented it to them, and many of those who know about it reject it. The only ones who appreciate it are those who make a journey of faith, of Christian initiation. This is the problem, in my view, with this synod: almost no one talks about the necessity of Christian initiation. They talk only about being present for couples, helping them, forming the teachers…

On July 25, 1968 Paul VI, beatified at the end of the synod, published the encyclical “Humanae Vitae” subsequent to the efforts undertaken along with the council fathers.

Here I will cite from a recently published book about that pope, very well documented, prepared by the Paul VI Institute based in Brescia, for the cause of beatification:

“How much mud was slung on that encyclical and on Paul VI by those who wanted to impose their own vision of a liberal-nihilistic world! A deliberate climate of tension had been created a year before, when in April 1967 a document was published by the pontifical commission that John XXIII had instituted in March 1963 and that Paul VI wanted to expand so that alongside the theologians, the composers of the text, there would be the voices of demographers, sociologists, economists, physicians, and a few married couples.

“That document, confidential by nature, was published simultaneously in Le Monde in France, in The Tablet in Great Britain, and in the National Catholic Reporter in the United States. There were clear signs of coordination by a single hand that wanted to present the document as the relation of the majority, maintaining that only four of the seventy members of the commission had criticized the text, something that turned out to be false."

Having created this expectation - as they are again creating it today by saying that Pope Francis will allow communion for the remarried - everyone was expecting Paul VI to approve contraceptives, the pill, to reduce the population. So when the pope gave the final word, that every conjugal act is unitive and procreative, open to life, there was a general scandal, not only in the secular world:

“There was equal incomprehension among many Catholics, including Cardinal Suenens and various famous theologians. To these were added, with words that were disconcerting for their toughness and hostility, eighty-seven theologians of the Catholic University of Washington, the episcopal conferences of Austria and Canada, as well as several thousand German Catholics.

“What is striking is the emphasis given by the mass media to those voices of dissent, compared with the very many endorsements that came from all over the Church and that were, if not silenced, not always correctly reported by the main media outlets. Paul VI did not allow himself to be drawn into the controversy or be overcome by dismay, but exerted himself in giving the correct explanation right away with the audience immediately following the publication of the encyclical, on July 31, when he reiterated that ‘Humanae Vitae’ did not enshrine a negative statement, but was intended to be ‘the positive presentation of conjugal morality for the sake of its mission of love and fecundity, in the light of an overall vision of man, of his earthly and eternal vocation.’”

Pope John Paul II made “Humanae Vitae” the focus of the last fourteen catecheses of his whole cycle on the theology of the body, in 1984.

As for Pope Francis, you know that a few Sundays ago he celebrated the marriage of twenty-four couples. I was very careful to listen to the formula that he used. Because in the ritual of marriage there is the first formula which is the one used by the pope, but there are also others that are not as explicit. It would be interesting to see which one the priests use. Because the first formula says: 

“Are you ready to accept with love the children that God may wish to give you, and to raise them according to the law of Christ and of his Church?”

“The children that God wishes to give you”: I don’t know if all priests say that.

[KIKO: All of this is fine when there are Christian people, but when the people are not Christian they couldn't care less less about all these things. Thanks to God you have listened to us catechists who have told you what the Church says and you have been humble and have not opposed our catechesis with ideas from the newspapers. Carmen once said to the pope, years ago: What is it all about, this obsession in favor of natural methods? It seems that the Church is thinking only about how to limit children. Because in the end this was the thinking, that the Catholic family should have two children, no more. Some even within the Church still have this idea. We said to those of Catholic Action: and afterward, what do you do? After you have two children, how do you continue the conjugal act? Do you use coitus interruptus? Do you use natural methods? Do you use the pill? Everywhere it has been preached that responsible parenthood means limiting births, and the number of children has been left to the conscience of the spouses. This has been preached everywhere. But did the pope say this? No! Responsible parenthood means accepting not to limit the number of children, it means accepting the plan of God. But no one has repeated these things the pope said. Thanks to God you have been saved because you have obeyed us. You have continued to believe that the conjugal act is an act of holiness, a true sacrament. We are happy to see that even our children and grandchildren follow us in this, they have children and they are happy].


THE REASON FOR THE “HONORIS CAUSA” DOCTORATE FOR KIKO


To conclude, I cite the doctorate “honoris causa” conferred on Kiko by the pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family.

In the “Laudatio Academica", Professor José Noriega presented the three reasons why the institute decided to give this recognition, we might say, to the Neocatechumenal Way:

1. “The rediscovery of the fecundity of Baptism for the life of the couple has had one of its most significant fruits in the rediscovery of the holiness of the conjugal act between the spouses. Seeing this as one of the places where God acts, the couples of the Way have wanted to live their love with a singular openness to life, knowing that they are collaborators with God in the generation of persons."

2. “At a time of crisis and disorientation on the part of many, the unreserved acceptance of the prophetic encyclical of Paul VI ‘Humanae Vitae’ on the part of the families of the Way has been an authentic testimony for the whole Church, showing that beyond our fears or difficulties it is possible to live what the Church points out as specific to the way of holiness of the couple."

3. “The families of the Neocatechumenal Way quickly understood and adopted a form of domestic liturgy. In this way the great mission of transmitting the faith to the children has found the proper setting for the testimony of the parents. In the context of a frightful secularization of ‘vast areas of the earth, where the faith is in danger of being extinguished like a flame that no longer has fuel,’ the Way has been able to ‘make God present in a singular form’: I am talking about the great testimony of the families on mission.”

Along the Neocatechumenal Way, in catechesis, we have told you that the family has, so to speak, three altars: the holy Eucharist, the nuptial bed, and the family table where the faith is passed on to the children.

It is good to emphasize that this “Laudatio” refers to all the families of the Neocatechumenal communities, and not only to the families on mission.

As for these latter, for more than thirty years they have been giving their lives often in heroic situations to bear witness to the love of God through their presence and apostolate, in which often their children are the first missionaries who draw the estranged to the Church.

In recent years the Lord has raised up among us the missions “ad gentes”: nuclear families with many children, accompanied and supported by a presbyter, an associate, and a few sisters, which constitute a point of attraction in completely pagan or dechristianized areas. A new form of evangelization for the secularized and pagan world of today.

screwtape & cs lewis