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Tanagan, CalataganA Fisherfolk Experience

Wednesday, February 6, 13

Lack of food

No comfort room Hostile Environment

Midterms week

Worried Parents

Initial ConcernsaboutImmersion


First Day at Brgy. Tanagan

Arrival

Welcoming speech by Ka Tony

Meeting our families

First meal

Family bonding

Basketball game


Second Day at Brgy. Tanagan

Coastal clean-up

Simbang Gabi

Community Night


Third Day at Brgy. Tanagan

Synthesis session

Last goodbyes

Leaving the community


Personal & General Insights

Traditional Sin Social Sin

NowThen

The Church and Sin


Deprivation of Rights due to Social

classes and divisions

Unequal privileges resulting to the lack

in class mobility

Tanagan’s Context

Livelihood hindrances due to

Capitalism

Social Sin in

Tanagan



Prophets (Micah, Amos, etc.)

Justice and Social Sinin the Scriptures

Reconciliatio et Paenetentia (no. 16)

•Amos’ cry out for justice in a festival assembly in Bethel.•Micah’s declaration of power, justice and might in sinful Israel.

“To speak of social sin recognizes that, by virtue of human solidarity which is as mysterious and intangible as it is real and concrete, each individual’s sin in some way affects others.”



Gaudium et Spes

Justice and Social Sinin the Scriptures

Reconciliatio et Paenetentia (no. 16)

“Common good is the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.”

“The society owes freedom, peace, etc. to its members.” [Caroll]

“Participation is expressed essentially in a series of activities by means of which the citizen, either as an individual or in association with others, whether directly or through representation, contributes to the cultural, economic, political and social life of the civil community to which he belongs.”



Deuteronomy, Ch. 6

Privatization in the Scriptures

Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2406

All land is God’s

Regulative power of the authorities (kings, pharaohs, etc.)

Laborem Exercens, 14

Gaudium et Spes, 69“God destined the earth and all it contains for the use of every individual and all peoples.”

The right to private property is necessary and it promotes human dignity.



Sammaca main issues

Social analysis

Growing establishments for Commercial profit

privatization of fishing sites & shrimp ponds

poisoning of mangroves

limit sources of livelihood and supply of food


Sammaca main issues

Social analysis

bankruptcy

lack of funds

sammaca main office closed

less visibility to local government


local government and corporations

Social analysis

does not engage the community in the decision-making

closing of roads to fishermen’s boats

unimplemented laws:

fisheries code of the philippines (FARMC); Section 108 of the Philippine fisheries code of 1998

DENR, BAFR & LGU’s duty to protect and guard foreshore management


local government and corporations

Social analysis

priority:

TOURISM vs COMMUNITY

local communities are struggling

profit vs humanity


observations

Social analysis

no bathroom in some households

little or lack of toiletries

little supply of food

poor quality of education

Poor disposal system

lack of sacraments received


sources of livelihood

Social analysis

contractual construction jobs

sugar cane workers

crops and livestock

minimum wages

midwifery & hilot massage

hairdresser

computer shop

sari-sari store


class divisionWednesday, February 6, 13

non-poor population

Social analysis

land: hectares, commercialized/privately owned, concrete

economic: high savings, capital for business opportunities

experience: high educational attainment

social: Highly connected, highly influential

Resources: ponds, livestock (cows, chickens, seafood)

examples: Atty. Vergara, Lhuillier, Henry Sy, Ricky Reyes


middle population

Social analysis

land: medium-little sized land, enough sized house, concrete

economic: enough-low savings

experience: college-high school level

social: connected, influential, mostly part of sammaca

Resources: livestock (chicken, goats)


poor population

Social analysis

land: no land (rent), abaca houses

economic: getting poorer and poorer, low levels of savings, large debts to sari-sari store, minumum wages

experience: high school-elementary levels

social: interconnected within the community/sammaca to survive

Resources: no regular food supply, seasonal jobs


Theological Reflection

ISSUES:

degradation of the environment

Social Sin

Land privatization



Degradation of the environment

Book of Genesis (Gen 1:26-28)

1. Dominion – a share in God’s creative power

2. Stewardship – placing something at your care

3. Companionship – camaraderie and sense of togetherness

“In nature, the believer recognizes the wonderful result of God's creative activity… The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a

responsibility…”Pope Benedict XVI (in Caritas in Veritate 48)




Sacrament of Creation (Himes and Himes)

1. All creatures are sacraments of God

2. Intrinsic value of creatures

‘we must take into account the nature of each being and of its mutual connection in an ordered system’

(Vatican II, 962)




Church’s call to responsibility (Caritas Veritate 51)

Church’s response to science and technology (Vatican II)

Need to ‘create a balanced policy between consumption and conservation’ (1988 Roman Catholic Church Statement)

‘The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.’(Psalm 24:1)


Theological ReflectionCurrent situation in the Phil.

Deforestation

Contamination of bodies of water

Smoke-belching Global warming

Where is the Church in all of these realities?



brgy. tanagan

30,000 mangroves destroyed in the private land of Atty. Vergara

3,000 families cut off from resources

DENR and BFAR approved the necessary permits



Ambivalent or ignorant Church?

Traditional Catholic beliefs

‘Unaware’ of the responsibility towards the environment

Unaware of the gravity of the consequences

Lack of immediate contact with the inhabitants


Pastoral action

Pastoral Action


Social Analysis

Experience


Pastoral action

Spiritual)

Social)

Economic)

The)Church)

Community)

SAMMACA,)NGOs)

LGUs)


Spiritual conversion

1. Coordinate with the local diocese in the Calatagan town proper for a priest to give mass a. Every week B. Special occasions

2. Have a priest on call for the provision of other sacraments

3. Facilitate spiritual conversion within each individual, foster rapport as a Christian community, & the Church’s deeper involvement in the lives of Tanagan’s residents

Pastoral action


Economic proposals

1. Organic Chicken Farmingalternative to fishingmale people of the community

2. Partnering with Social EntrepreneursJacinto & Lirio, Rags2Riches a. Batangas Trademark in the bag designs

Pastoral action


Social

Create avenues wherein the fishermen (through SAMMACA, SAMMASETA, Partner NGOs) and the landowners can talk it through

so that the fishermen will not be cut off from the seathey be provided opportunities such as supplying fish, jobs, etc.

Pastoral action


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Documents

social sinin

social classes

social life

individuals sin

capitalismsocial sin

sum total of social

gaudium et spesjustice

local governmentwednesday