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VISION
The Basic Ecclesial Communities of Our Lady of
the Visitation Parish envisions a church gradually becoming a community of
disciples, acknowledging Christ as her head and faithfully following his
mission, abundantly and selflessly sharing and joyfully living in harmony
and solidarity with God and His creations.
MISSION
Following the way of the Lord, we sincerely
commit ourselves to:
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to form Basic Ecclesial Communities as
the concrete way of being church today;
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to strive to be a truly local church,
integrating and infusing the Gospel values of love, equality,
humility, justice and the sense of dignity into its involvement in
social life;
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to form a community with a
preferential option and love for the poor, the weak and the
oppressed; professing special concern for the young, disabled,
the outcast and sinners;
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to form a community of evangelized
evangelizers in communion with God, united with its leaders and the
universal church and co-responsible for one another; a community
valuing the process of consultation and dialogue;
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to realize these missions through the
YEAST ministries;
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to witness to the gospel in our
concrete life.
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HISTORY OF ALFONSO LISTA
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION STATION
Gabriel T. Chocyagan
Alfonso Lista is found at the eastern part of
Ifugao Province, Philippines in boundary with Isaebla Province by the Magat
River. It had been a hunting ground of the daring Ilocanos of Isabela
unmindful but elusive of the human headhunting activities of the natives of
Ifugao and Natonin (Bala-ngao). One of the three brave Ilocano wild
game players was a man with the nickname "Lucio" Alfonso Lista, his
Christian name.
Having roamed this "Dammang", an Ilocano term
for the other side of the river for a long time even before the outbreak of
World War II, he led a group of Ilocanos accross the Magat River and settled
in a place called "Mun-u-u-pag" meaning "bubbles" produced by the presence
and movement of numerous aquatic animals which abound beneath the rivers and
creeks.
The name of place was later changed to "Potia"
from an Ifugao dialect "Putiyak" which refers to the cracking of pods of
fast-growing pod-bearing vegetations around the area. The matured pods
when heated by the sun crack and spread far and around the base, thus,
adding more and more of its kind.
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