Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and Winning the Marketplace for Christ

Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Mactan Chapter

Message for the

Month:
Man does not
live by bread
alone. Do not be
troubled, have
faith

Special points of
interest:

Regional Mens
Breakfast July
30

July
2011

Cebu Charismatic Communities Celebrate

Pentecost
Lapulapu City hosted
this years Pentecost Celebration on June 12, 2011.
Attended by delegates
representing all Charismatic Communities of
Cebu, the venue, the newly
finished Hoops Dome, was
filled to capacity.
BCBP Mactan, being
one of these charismatic
communities was represented by our very own
Chapter Head, Martin
Pusta together with some
kuyas and ates.
Ate Lanie Berdin has

Concelebrated Mass with Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma D.D.

this to share of her

experience on that big
event.
I was very happy that
I was part of that big
celebration of Pentecost

Sunday. We arrived early

in the venue before the
activity started but delegates from the provinces
obviously arrived earlier
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Inside this issue:

Retooling Business

Feeding Program

Teaching

The Spiritans

Q&A

The art of being happy lies in the power of finding happiness in ordinary things. Life does not
force us to be the best; it only asks that we try.

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Cebu Charismatic (continued from page 1)

The bulk of the attendees

from different charismatic
communities

BCBP Mactan Bros. and Sis.

than those who live near in

Lapulapu City.
I was really overwhelmed by the praise and
worship. And I know GOD
was even happier seeing
the big crowd singing praise
songs and really dancing
with joy. I even wanted my
two sons to be there but
they have also an activity
with their Youth for Christ
Community. I texted some
friends to come because I
really wanted to share the
same joy I had experienced.
The event formally
opened with the parade of
banners of different charismatic and church organizations including BCBP. There

were 22 organizations who

participated in that
event. Monsignor Frederick Kriekenbeek, the first
speaker, welcomed the
different groups in attendance. Some speakers
gave testimonies that really
touched and inspired us.
One spectacular testimony
that really touched me and
maybe most of the audience was that of Pastor
Noe of the Protestant
Church. He was a pastor for 15 years and was
a founder of his own congregation. He came from
the family of pastors and
evangelizers.
He was
converted to the Catholic
Church and was bap-

tized. He even slowly evangelized his family and slowly

introduced Mama Mary
and also the 7 sacraments.
Amazingly his
whole family was converted
and all of them were baptized in the catholic
church.
The well attended event
was highlighted with the
celebration of the HOLY
MASS concelebrated by
many priests with
Archbishop Jose Palma as
main celebrant.

Retooling Business and Church for Social Responsibility Challenges

Cebu Archbishop
Jose S. Palma D.D.

Editor
www.bcbp-phil.com

A forum on ChurchBusiness Partnership was

held at the Harolds Hotel, Cebu City, on May
18, 2011, through the
invitation of the new
Archbishop of Cebu, Jose
S. Palma. The forum was
sponsored by the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals Cebu Region, in
cooperation with Couples For Christ and BLD.
The theme of the forum
was Retooling Business
and Church for Social
Responsibility Challenges.
Bishop Palma in the

forum expressed his desire to reach out to the

business community of
Cebu to hasten his gradual immersion into the
concerns of business and
professional people of the
archdiocese. He articulated his ideas in his talk
entitled: Vision on
Church-Business Partnership. This was followed
by a talk on Helpful Considerations in ChurchBusiness Partnership by
the Most Rev. Gerardo
A. Alminaza, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of Jaro, Iloilo.
A 20-minute open forum
was held after each talk.

The forum was attended by 170 men and

women from the various
business groups of Metro
Cebu like the Cebu Business Club, Mandaue Business Club, Cebu City
Chamber of Commerce
and the BCBP. About 30
businessmen from the 7
Cebu chapters of the
BCBP attended, including
BCBP President Larry
Veloso, Area Managing
Director Mayong Rodriguez, several Chapter
Heads and the Cebu Regional Council Director
Hector Tina.

Walk with purpose but with calmness. Speak with passion but with peace. Act with energy but with
serenity. Walk with God today and everyday .

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Moving on
They say life is a journey, that life is a cycle of
ups and downs and moving on.
A dear couple and a
sister in the community
are leaving us to venture
into another chapter of
their lifes journey.
Though it feels sad that
they are leaving but we
are happy for them as
they courageously and
faithfully made these
major decisions in their
life.
Kuya Dodong and Ate
Lanie Berdin and children
will be leaving end of July
for C ana da . Ku ya
Dodong, an electrical
engineer and Ate Lanie, a

registered nurse hope to

practice their professions
and raise their four
young children there.
Ate Vilma Cadimas
has left the country to
be with her new inspiration in California.
The community wish
them all the blessings the
Lord will shower upon
them. May they also
bring to their new place
of residence the faith
which BCBP Mactan helped nurtured in their
hearts.
God bless Kuya Dodong , Ate Lanie, and Ate
Vilma. We will miss you!

Vilma Cadimas
Ate Vilma being prayed over

Kuya Dodong, Ate Lanie, and their children

Governance Team Feeds the Children of Calubian

The first Sunday of
June was another opportunity for our community
to feed the children in a
depressed area of LapuLapu City. This time the
host team was the Governance and the recipients were the children of
sitio Calubian of barangay
Pajac.
The governance team,
led by our chapter head
Martin Pusta, prepared
three kettles full of delicious Pospas. More than
fifty children enjoyed the
Pospas and boiled eggs.

The team served the

children generously bidding them to come for
second or third servings.
Many went home with
their bowls filled with
Pospas for their siblings
left at home.
The feeding is a social
action program of Sacred
Heart of Jesus Parish of
Pajac which our community supports as sponsor
every first Sunday of the
month.

The children enjoying the delicious Pospas

Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is a vision. Live well today and youll make every yesterday a
joyful memory and every tomorrow a vision full of hope.

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Teaching

Fr. Fidel Orendain SDB

TAY TAYAN
Celebrating Midlife
Fr. Fidel Orendain who celebrated our first Friday Mass gave a talk on Midlife.
The purpose of the teaching is to prepare us for it so that when it comes we go
thru it intact.
Midlife begins at age 40. We call this experience as depression. At this point
almost everything makes a person sad. There is a feeling of something is wrong.
Midlife keeps the person away from the joy of ordinary life. When this happens
Father said, Do not deny going through it. Enter into the darkness with intelligence. Walk into the midst of the trial. Do not run away from it. Denying it makes
it more complicated.
Midlife could be both a pain and a deliverance. If approached properly it could
be tranquil. It is like pruning a tree, cleaning it to make room for growth.
Life is a journey. It is to be lived fully at each step. All stages are necessary for a
person to become whole. A persons life is shaped by family, religion, culture,
childhood experiences, etc.
At midlife there is a crisis of meaning. Questions surface like: Am I happy today?
May meaning ba ang buhay ko? At midlife something in the person is giving up. We
are not as we are before. Something has changed like loss of intensity in relationship. Since these experiences are human nature, it cannot be transitioned without
spiritual component. The challenge is balancing the polarities. Midlife is a wakeup
call. It demands a change in consciousness to explore the bigger you.
What to do and how to prepare for it?
Physical
- take care of your health, exercise
- find time to rest and recharge
- be aware of changes in your body and how it affects you
Mental
- understand what is going on
- intellectual stimulation (read, learn new skill)
- make plans, set goals
Emotional
- pay attention to relationship, to your feelings
- learn to express emotions
- be creative
Spiritual
- silence, meditation, prayer
- increase faith in God
-know and believe that all these happen for a reason
- be aware and stick to your values

Charity is your investment in heaven. And what matters in this investment is not how much
you give, but your attitude in giving .

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The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans)

Fr. Martin Okafor-Ilozue CSSp - BCBP Mactan BCLP19

The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (full title, Congregation of the Holy
Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, or in
Latin, Congregatio Sancti Spiritus sub tutela Immaculati Cordis Beatissimae Virginis
Mariae, and thus abbreviated C.S.Sp.) is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests, lay
brothers, and since Vatican II, lay associates. Congregation members are known
as Spiritans in Continental Europe, and as the Holy Ghost Fathers in English-speaking
countries, although even there, they are becoming known as Spiritans. A Spiritan priest
or brother has the abbreviation C.S.Sp. after his name.
The Spiritans were founded in Paris on Whit Sunday 1703 for the purpose of preparing missionaries for the most abandoned souls, whether in Christian or non-Christian
countries by a young, holy ecclesiastic of noble Breton birth and of brilliant talents, a
wealthy young Breton lawyer, Claude-Franois Poullart des Places, who, three years
previously, in the twenty-first year of his age, had given up the bright prospects of a parliamentary lawyer to embrace the ecclesiastical state. Having opted for the priesthood
himself, he wanted to form a religious order for young men who had a vocation to become priests but were too poor to do so. From the very beginning of his ecclesiastical
studies he manifested a particular attraction for lowly and neglected works of charity. He
became especially interested in poor, deserving students, on whom he freely spent all his
own private means and as much as he could collect from his friends. It was with a dozen
of these gathered round him that he opened the Seminary of the Holy Ghost, which
afterwards developed into a religious society.
The community, formed in dedication to the Holy Spirit to minister to the poor and
to provide chaplains in hospitals, prisons, and schools, soon developed a missionary role
- some volunteered for service in the Far East and North America - and by 1765
the Holy See was entrusting it with direct care of South American missionary territories
like French Guiana. 1,300 priests had been trained in the years leading up to 1792, when
the actions of the seminary was suppressed by the French Revolution.
The work grew rapidly; but the labours and anxieties connected with the foundation
proved too much for the frail health of the founder. He died on 2 October 1709, in the
thirty-first year of his age, and in only the third of his priesthood. The portraits which
remain of Father Poullart des Places depict a distinguished and intelligent countenance,
combining energy with sweetness.
After the founder's death, the Congregation of the Holy Ghost continued to progress; it became fully organized, and received the approbation of the civil and ecclesiastical authorities. It sent missionaries to the French colonies, and to India and China, but
suffered much from the French Revolution. The congregation's numbers in Europe declined sharply until 1802, when theNapoleonic government allowed the seminary to
reopen and the congregation was asked to focus on supplying priests for work in the
French colonies in Africa, the West Indies and the Indian subcontinent.
The core of mission remains constantthe proclamation of the Good News of Jesus
to those who have never heard it at all and to those who have heard it inadequately. But
the manner in which this is accomplished varies according to context and opportunity.
The goal is always to establish a viable local faith community with its own leadership,
incorporating the language and customs of the people.

Fr. Martin

Each day is an offering of love, a gift only God can deliver, and the way we use each shining hour is
our gift of thanks to the giver .

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The Storms of Life

Nery Gula

As if my being sick
twice in the month of
May was not enough, I
got hospitalized last June
14 due to very high fever
of unknown cause.
At this time of the
year when we are financially drained due to
school needs, we cannot
afford to be sick. But
here I was, getting sick.
The doctor gave me a
food supplement that will
boost my immune system, the cost of which is

way beyond our means.

Amidst all these though,
God was there telling me
Do not be afraid, I can
calm the storms, I can heal
your illness.
True enough the Lord
sent help through my sisters, who when they
learned I was sick again,
took time to call and give
support.
To top it all, there are
brothers and sisters of
BCBP Mactan who prayed
for my healing. After two

days, I checked out of

the hospital.
Here I am again up
and about, doing very
well. I know this is not
the end of storms that
may hit our life. But
who is afraid of storms
when there is someone
bigger and mightier than
the storm - Jesus, my
Lord and my God.

QUICK QUESTIONS (forums.catholic.com)

Q:

Can a rosary be worn as a piece of jewelry?

A:

"Sacred objects, set aside for divine worship by dedication or blessing, are to be treated with
reverence. They are not to be made over to secular or inappropriate use, even though they may
belong to private persons" (CIC 1171).
Essentially, sacramentals such as rosaries must be treated with respect, particularly if they have
been blessed. Reverence is the attitude of awe or respect that is most often given to sacred
things. By its very definition, it is an interior disposition that usually cannot be determined by
onlookers by appearances alone. A person may be wearing a rosary as a statement of faith, to
keep it handy for praying throughout the day, or to avoid losing it. Those reasons would be indicative of reverence and would not interfere with the canons directive that sacramentals must
be treated reverently.
Ordinarily speaking, then, if someone is spotted wearing a rosary, he should be charitably presumed to be wearing it for just reasons. Only if the rosary is being put to an objectively sordid
use (e.g., a rock star is using it as a prop in a music video, obscenely contrasting the symbolic
purity of the rosary with the immodest or immoral actions of the performers) can we be sure
that the rosary is being treated irreverently.
(forums.catholic.com - Michelle Arnold)

Daily blessings are reminders of God. Worry ends where faith in God begins. In prayer, God hears
more than words. He listens to your heart .

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Faith allows impossible things to happen, it is the force that comes only from a fearless heart, and
when a fearless heart believes, miracles happen .

Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Our Vision: Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and

Winning the Marketplace for Christ
The BCBP is a community of like-minded Christian Businessmen
and Professionals who have consciously decided to band together
to bring about the transformation of the marketplace.
Mactan Chapter

Chapter Head:

Martin B. Pusta
visit:

www.bcbp-phil.com

BREAKFAST
Venue: Crown Regency Suites
Weekly Schedule: Saturday 7:30 - 10:00 AM
1st Wk: Mens
2nd Wk: Joint (Mens & Ladies)
3rd Wk: Mens
4th Wk: Simultaneous (Mens & Ladies)
Contact Person: Doxie Cabasagan CP# 0920 4766218

June Breakfast Sharers

Romy Mauro (June 4)
BCBP Cebu-Central
I was once a prayerless person but with BCBP I
became prayerful.
Dodong and Lanie Berdin (June 11)
BCBP Mactan
He, being a faithful God will never forsake His people. We hope to be His
evangelizers too in the place He is bringing us
Kuya Dodong and Ate Lanie with their children are migrating to Canada.

Nono Tan (June 18)

BCBP Cebu-South
I no longer seek to destroy the enemy (competitor) but peaceful coexistence
with my rivals
Bro. Nono is into noodles manufacturing and soft drinks distribution business.

Tata and Jo Briones (June 25)

BCBP Ipil (Zamboanga, Sibugay)
Trials are Gods ways of polishing us and testing our endurance
Bro. Tata and Sis. Jo are the present outreach head of BCBP Ipil.

Gentleness requires tremendous strength. Gentleness is having the power not to react when everything
about the circumstance says you should. Gentleness is the beginning of learning what love is all about .