CBCP declares 2018 Year of the Clergy and Consecrated
Persons
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| Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao president of the CBCP.- RV |
The new head of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the
Philippines in his first pastoral exhortation, declares 2018 as the
year of the ‘clergy and consecrated persons'. The year, he
said, envisions that clergy and consecrated persons become “renewed”
servant-leaders “who care most especially for the least, the lost and the
last”.
Archbishop Romulo Valles of Davao was
elected as the new president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the
Philippines (CBCP) in July during their plenary assembly in Manila and has
formally assumed his office on December 1.
The archbishop who now leads the 83 active, 5 diocesan
administrators and 43 honorary members of the CBCP from 86 ecclesiastical
jurisdictions said the activities throughout the year will be dedicated to the
promotion and recognition of priestly and religious vocations.
Aiming at making the year, a year of integral renewal
of values, behavior and life-styles of the clergy and consecrated persons the
Archbishop said it will be a year also of revisiting ways of seminary and
religious formation.
The new pastoral letter will be read in all Masses on
December 3, the first Sunday of Advent, when dioceses will announce the opening
of the Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons (YCCP).
In 2013, the CBCP had launched a nine-year “spiritual
journey towards the 500th Jubilee of Christianization of the Philippines in
2021 with a different theme for each year. Accordingly November 27 saw the end
of the Year of the Parish and the beginning of the Year of Clergy and the
Consecrated Persons.(CBCP)
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