MANILA — A Catholic prelate has called on members of the clergy to do their own \u201clifestyle check\u201d.<\/p>\n
San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza wants priests to assess their activities everyday and to know how much time and resources they devote to \u201ccultic, prophetic, administrative\u201d activities.<\/p>\n
He said that cultic activities are administering of the sacraments, house blessings, etc, while prophetic activities include helping the needy through organizing livelihood projects or cooperatives, helping resolve conflict situations, violations of justice, human rights cases, and the like while administrative work involves fund-raising for church needs, doing church repairs, and beautification.<\/p>\n
Likewise, Alminaza asked priests to check how they socialize and with whom.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many of our friends are among the rich, the middle class, the poor? \u2026 How many houses of the poor have we visited? \u2026 What socializing activities do I engage in? In what places and with whom? \u2026 Which places do we frequent for rest and recreation?,\u201d asked the prelate during his talk on \u201cPerspectives and Direction to the Ongoing Formation of the Clergy\u201d he said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) news website.<\/p>\n
The Catholic prelate spoke to some 120 priests at the National Discernment of Priests on their Prophetic Role organized by the National Clergy Discernment Group last week.<\/p>\n
At the same time, the chairman of the Episcopal Commission on Seminaries also brought up the question of finances and priests.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much of the people\u2019s money do I spend for the education of my nephews, nieces?\u201d asked Alimanaza.<\/p>\n
Also, he would want the gadgets used to be looked at. \u201cAre we satisfied with a workable phone or should I have the latest Blackberry or iPhone?\u201d<\/p>\n
Alminaza noted how much a priest\u2019s monthly financial statement reveals.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, every month, a financial statement is a spiritual document. It reveals my values, my priorities\u2026 Does it go to food, recreation, to helping somebody?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Aside from seminary and priestly formation, the gathering also focused on EJKs (extra judicial killings), Charter Change, the CBCP\u2019s declaration of 2018 as the Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons, the 6th year celebration of the Church in the Philippines\u2019 9-year \u201cspiritual journey\u201d towards 2021, the 500th year after the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MANILA — A Catholic prelate has called on members of the clergy to do their own \u201clifestyle check\u201d. San Carlos …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[6234,20737],"class_list":["post-155923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-catholic-prelate","tag-lifestyle-check","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}