TAYTAYAN

Bringing Christ into the Marketplace and Winning the Marketplace for Christ

Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals

Mactan Chapter

May 2014

Chapter Gives Honesty Awards to Students

Prompted by the good outcome of last years search for Be Honest role models in schools, the chapter awarded five high school students from five National High Schools in Lapulapu City. The awardees were chosen from among first-year to third-year students. The awarding ceremony was done during the Recognition Rites held on the first week of April. The following students received a plaque of appreciation, a Be Honest T-shirt, 1,000 pesos cash, and school supplies: 1. Plutarch Jonel A. Degollacion - Babag National High School

Inside this issue:

Sectoral Leaders Meet Holy Week Teaching
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PSD Eton Apao (center) and MD Tex Bulambot (left) giving the award

2. Dienver Y. Augusto - Bankal National High School

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BCBP Celebrates 34th National Anniversary

Magandang GenSan indeed! This was how Mactan delegates to NAC34 described the National anniversary at General Santos City on April 25 & 26, 2014. The 53 delegates who responded to the plea of BCBP GenSan CH and NAC34 Chairman Danny
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Special points of interest:

Sports Fest launching

May 10, 2014

Photo: BCBP Kapatid

The Worship and General Assembly

May our hearts burn with love and courage as we continue to live our mission inspired by the new life of the risen Christ.

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Taytayan

Chapter Gives (continued from page 1)

3. Christian Sullano - Look National High School 4. Jazyl Mae B. Pepito Mactan National High School 5. Kate Pangatungan Marigondon National High School. The principal of each school was given a Be Honest award poster (tarpaulin) with the photo of the awardee for students to see and serve as inspiration. The award committee was headed by PSD Eton Apao and assisted by Peping Roa, and Nara Paradero.

Plutarch Ionel A. Degollacion Babag National High School

Dienver Y. Augusto Bankal National High School

Babag National High School Awardee

Christian Sullano Lo-ok National High School

Jazyl Mae B. Pepito Mactan National High School

Kate Pangatungan Marigondon National High School

Lo-ok National High School Awardee

Mactan National High School Awardee

Marigondon National High School Awardee

God's standards are not given to spoil our fun but to protect us from the follies of life .

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BCBP Celebrates (continued from page 1)

Hamoy, had a great time from start to finish of the two-day celebration which was held at SM City, General Santos City. The theme adopted this year, Change the Face of Business with Honesty, Integrity and Excellence, challenged all members present to live up to this call as BCBP journey onward to Christianize the marketplace. The spirit-filled Friday assembly led to a beautiful experience of being prayed over by a brother or a sister they just met at the anniversary but the prayers and concern were overflowing. Wearing colorful T-shirts for Saturdays breakfast fellowship, the delegates had a more beautiful morning listening to the sharing of Fr. Herb Schneider, Judge Gilbert Moises and Governor Albert Uy of Zamboanga del Norte. Saturday afternoons formal dinner was a sight with the more than two thousand delegates from all over the country dressed in shades of black and white. The fellowship was a great celebration of thanksgiving for the 34 years with the Lord. What with the fitting feast promised by CH Danny plus all the sashimis? Mactan delegates extended their stay to celebrate Kuya Cords (Marcelino Cordova) birthday at Glan, South Cotabato. They spent Sunday at the beautiful Coco beach with its white sands and of course another feast of the best of Cotabato. So Magandang GenSan! The anniversary activities plus the beautiful sights to behold and exotic food to feast are among the many unforgettable moments Mactan delegates will treasure.

Photo: BCBP Kapatid

The Breakfast sharers with BCBP Pres. Manny Jimenez

Mactan Leaders

Part of Mactan Delegates

The delegates in their colorful shirts

Celebrating Kuya Cords birthday at Coco Beach

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities, instead raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

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Taytayan Mactan, Mandaue, and Consolacion Leaders Meet

Senior Leaders of Consolacion, Mactan, and Mandaue met at Montebello Villa Hotel on April 12, 2014 for fellowship and business meeting. They brainstormed on what BCBP, through the senior leaders of these chapters, can do to assist civil servants attain honest and excellent service. The topic tackled was so broad that the group decided to focus on Consolacion local government as pilot case. Jun Gula was also tasked to come-up with a master list of groups and individuals in government who can be consulted or sought when help is needed.

Casi Nadela presiding

Chapter Observes Holy Week

The chapter prepared for a holy observance of the Holy Week with a Recollection in the afternoon of April 12, 2014 at IAU chapel. Fr. Rudy Bugna, OSA, gave a beautiful and very refreshing talk on how super ego differs from conscience. A Holy Mass was celebrated after the recollection after which the Way of the Cross followed. The afternoon activity ended with a dinner fellowship at the same venue. On Good Friday, some members of the chapter were seen early at SHJ Parish, Pajac for the traditional Sto. Entiero carro decoration.

The Recollection

The Way of the Cross

The group headed by the Aballe couple, had been doing this beautiful act of service for years. This time the group completed the task before noon just in time for lunch and rest before returning back to church for the afternoons veneration of the Cross.

Decorating the carro of the Santo Entiero

Life's battle doesn't always favor the stronger or faster ones, because sooner or later, the one who wins is the one whose heartbeat says, "With God I can.".

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Teaching

Formation of Super Ego or Conscience

Fr. Rodolfo A. Bugna, OSA

Super-Ego
Commands us to act for the sake of gaining approval, or out of fear of losing love. Turned in toward self in order to secure ones sense of being of value, of being lovable.
Fr. Rodolfo A. Bugna, OSA

Conscience
Responds to an invitation to love

Fundamental openness that is oriented toward the other and toward the value which calls for action. Tends to be dynamic by a sensitivity to the demand of values which call for new ways of responding. Oriented primarily toward value Primary attention is to the larger process or pattern. Individual acts become important within this larger context.

Tends to be static by merely repeating a prior command.

Oriented primarily toward authority Primary attention is given to individual acts as being important in themselves apart from the larger context or pattern of actions. Oriented toward the past: The way we were. Punishment is the sure guarantee of reconciliation.

Oriented toward the future: The sort of person one ought to become. Reparation comes through structuring the future orientation toward the value in question.

The transition from guilt to self- reSelf-renewal is a gradual process of newal comes fairly easily and rapidly growth which characterizes all dimenby means of confessing to the author- sions of personal development. ity. Often finds a great disproportion between feeling of guilt experienced and the value at stake, Experience of guilt is proportionate to the degree of knowledge and freedom as well as the weight of the value at stake,

God is the best listener, you don't need to shout nor cry out loud because He hears even the very silent prayer of a sincere heart

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Taytayan He saw and he believed

John 20:8
Fr. Martin Okafor-Ilozue CSSp - BCBP Mactan BCLP19

In one of the resurrection narratives, we heard the story about how Mary Magdalene ran and told the apostles what she saw at the tomb that early morning. How she saw the stone covering the tomb already opened and on looking inside saw two angels with the burial clothes folded and neatly placed in two places. We were told that Peter and one of the apostles presumably John, ran to the grave, John being younger arrived first but did not go in, when Peter arrived, he went it straight. When John eventually did, he saw and he believed. What did he believed in from what he saw? An empty tomb, with the burial clothes neatly folded and placed apart. If someone stole the body of Jesus for whatever reasons as the Jewish leaders in those days made us to believe, the person would not fold the burial clothes, but would have carried the dead body with the linens, secondly the only group to gain in Jesus body being stolen was his followers and John knew they did not. So these two facts must have led him to believe that only Jesus himself on resurrecting folded the burial clothes and walked away from the tomb on his own. There and then John came to that conclusion, he rose as he told them and that made him to start thinking of all that Jesus told them as true. He came to believe that Jesus is the son of the Father that came from God, that his birth had nothing to do with human conception, that his miracles were not magic and that the spirit of God lived in him. Surprisingly not the physical Jesus that led him to accept these facts, but rather his absence in the grave. Jesus absence was no longer an obstacle but a confirmation of all that He is and did. Repeatedly He explained to them the importance of the messiah suffering and dying and on the third day will rise again; at that instant while staring at the empty tomb, John made that decision to give himself completely to the mission of Jesus, now Christ. No wonder he gave the world one of the most important narratives of who Jesus is and why He came to the world. He believed that Jesus was the great light that came to transform the world from darkness, through the process of incarnation became man in order to defeat sin in His body and achieved the resurrection. He believed in the message of the kingdom of God that was already established by Christ, but still yet to be worked for through our following the teachings of Jesus. He believed that Jesus was the messiah, the great prophet of God, the healer of humanity and the great Shepherd that gave His life for His sheep. John the youngest of all the apostles did not hesitate to give his entire life in serving the community of believers, leading them in the like manner of the chief Shepherd until his death at a very ripe age. Like St. John let us embrace the empty tomb and make sense of who we are and its implication for us. This will help us also to give our entire life in serving our brothers and sisters and faithfully without compromising following Jesus here on earth in order to rise and reign with him in his heavenly kingdom.

Life provides us with many options, go on or give up, hold on or let go, stay or leave, but its comforting to know that God remains faithful forever.

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Vatican News

People are like stained glass windows, so colorful, but their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within .

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Mactan Chapter

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April 2014 Breakfast Sharers

Magno Garcia (April 5) BCBP Consolacion It was only in the BCMR that I realize my lapses. Our live-in arrangement was displeasing to God and I did not correct my mistake. God gave me another chance. Fe Carballo (April 5) BCBP Cebu-South they discovered that there was a tumor in my large intestine and was diagnosed as colon cancer... It was really hard to accept the findings and if not for my faith in God and being with BCBP where I learned to entrust everything to the Lord.

Siegfred and Helen Lanticse (April 12) BCBP Consolacion Like the open sea, our life was beset by turbulences

No one is rich enough to buy back yesterday. But if you have the courage to do better things today, you would be the richest one tomorrow .