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AsIPA One

AsIPA One . AsIPA One . Building a New Way of Being Church. October 25 (Mon.)-30 (Sat.) 2010 Redemptorist Centre, Pattaya, Thailand Organised by AsIPA Desk of the Office of Laity and Family, of the FABC. SCCs are Concrete Expression of the Church : The Four Mark of SCCs.

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AsIPA One

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  1. AsIPA One AsIPA One Building a New Way of Being Church October 25 (Mon.)-30 (Sat.) 2010 Redemptorist Centre, Pattaya, Thailand Organised by AsIPA Desk of the Office of Laity and Family, of the FABC SCCs are Concrete Expression of the Church : The Four Mark of SCCs Building the New Way of Being Church October 25 (Mon.)-30 (Sat.) 2010 Redemptorist Centre, Pattaya, Thailand Organised by AsIPA Desk of the Office of Laity and Family, of the FABC

  2. 1. Members of SCCs are neighbours

  3. 2. SCCs make gospel sharing the basis of their meeting

  4. 3. SCCs act and do things together out of faith

  5. “We are the Church in the neighbourhood” What other tasks should a SCC undertake if their members believe, “we are the Church in this neighbourhood?”

  6. 4. SCCs have to be linked to the Universal Church

  7. Meet in the neighborhood Share the Gospel Act out of faith and serve others Be Linked with the universal SCCs’ four essential characteristics Breaking the Word is the same as breaking the Body and Blood. Gospel sharing is the basis and permanence of SCCs SCCs can be enabled to ground on their life context and respond together to it in their neighborhood. Each SCC is in unity with the universal Church. SCCs are not prayer groups, fellowship groups and bible sharing groups. In SCCs sharing the Gospel and the action are essential and very much interconnected.

  8. Small Christian Community is the Church on a small scale. • SCCs are not a movement within the Church but the Church in movement. • SCC is the very Church in miniature.

  9. The “Provided for” Church A participatory church, Communion of communities SCCs are the new way of being church towards

  10. Vision Mission Small Christian Communities Spirituality Towards a participatory church, Communion of communities Gospel Sharing

  11. Karl RANNER German theologian at the Vat II Council

  12. “The Church of the future will be a Church build up from below by the Base Communities

  13. < The 7 steps Gospel sharing > 1. Invite: We invite the Lord. - Would someone like to invite Jesus in a prayer? 2. Read: We Read the Text. - Let us open our Bibles to……Chapter…… - (After all have found the text) - Would someone like to read verses…… - (After it is read) Will someone read the same text, may be from another version. 3. View with wonder: We Pick out words and meditate on them. - We pick out words or short phrases, read them aloud prayerfully and repeat them three times. (The silence after each repetition should be long enough for us to repeat the same word once or twice in our hearts.) (Afterwards) Will someone, please, read the same text again. 4. Listen: We let God speak to us in Silence - Let us keep silence for…… minutes and allow God to speak to us. 5. Share: We share what we have heard in Our Hearts. - Which word has touched us personally? - (We do not discuss any contribution, even though some may not share personally but comment instead.) - (Afterwards) Which word from the text shall we choose as our “Word of life” for the coming week or month? 6. Plan for action: We discuss any task which our group is called to do in our neighborhood or parish. - Report on the previous task. - Which new task needs to be done? WHO is doing WHAT and WHEN? 7. Pray: We pray spontaneously. - Anyone who wishes may pray spontaneously.

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