The education component of PnP is its distinctive and hopefully, best feature. PnP promotes the formative dimension of social transformation. It is catechetical in nature – direct proclamation of the gospel values of Jesus Christ. The sharing of twenty-five centavos (0.25) becomes the integrating moment in the catechetical framework. It is the concrete expression of love, of a life lived for others. Thus education is coupled with action on behalf of neighbors.

SPIRITUALITY OF THE “CRUMBS”
Homily of Archbishop Gaudencio B. Rosales
Launching of Pondo ng Pinoy Community Foundation, Inc.
Folk Arts Theater, Roxas Boulebard, Pasay City
11 June 2004
9:00 a.m. 

Today Manila has more than half of its population as poor (52% to be exact).  The Makati, Mandaluyong and Ortigas skylines and the many condominium complexes around may not have the intention to deceive, but they certainly conceal the true state of life for more than one-half of the country’s people.  The GDPs and GNPs do not tell the true picture and stories of our less fortunate brothers and sisters.  These economic indicators always speak of averages.  The poor cannot eat economic product “averages” no matter how well they are prepared.  All told the unassailable story of the Philippine economy is revealed daily at the meal plates (if they still use plates) of families in the slums, shacks, cardboard homes and makeshift sheds you see in Metro Manila (and under Metro Manila bridges). 

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THE THEOLOGY OF THE CRUMBS
By. Bishop Luis Antonio G. Tagle
Launching of Pondo ng Pinoy Community Foundation, Inc.
11 June 2004
Folk Arts Theatre
Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City

The story of The Rich Man and Lazarus (Lk 16:19-31) provides the biblical basis for “The Theology of the Crumbs”.   There was a rich man who feasted on good food and lived in great luxury everyday, while Lazarus, a poor beggar whose wounds were licked by dogs, lay by the door waiting for crumbs.   When Lazarus died, he went to heaven and was received at the bosom of Abraham.   When the rich man died, he went to hell.   The rich man asked Abraham in vain to send Lazarus to warn his brothers so that they would not come to the same place of pain: “If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone were to rise from death!”

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 REPORT OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF
EDUCATION COMMITTEE

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