Small net in a big sea : the redemptorists in the Philippines, 1905-1929 /

Baily, Michael

Small net in a big sea : the redemptorists in the Philippines, 1905-1929 / by Michael Baily. - Cebu City : University of San Carlos, [c1978] - iv, 120 p. : illus. ; 24 cm

Contents Foreword--Preface--Chpt I. The redemptorists go East (1905-1911)--A church in need--Setting in Opon (Lapulapu City) Mactan--The Men sent--Chpt II. Uncertain Missionaries--Irishmen on strange ground--Redemptorists in Missiological dilemma--Faltering Apostolate: community living care of parishes, parish missions--Chpt III. To stay or not to stay--Leo Petitions close-down of Opon--Cassin hold firm--Apostolic delegate intervenes: a five-year reprieve won--Chpt IV. Two option--The Malate alternatives--Opon agrees to missionization of Filipinos--Chpt V. Spread of the Missions: questions of method--Selling the parish mission idea--Spread of the mission to 'Cebuanoland'--The mission method--Chpt VI. Pastoral orientations of the early missions--Salvation theology of the time--Emphasis on confessions--The regularization of marriage unions--Chpt VII. Missionizing against proselytizers--Chpt VIII. Hardships of travel and keep--Chpt IX. Regrouping for missions only--Pressure for change--Fr. Willie Byrne and the regrouping of mission in Iloilo, Cebu and Baclaran.


Redemptorists in the Philippines
Catholic Church--Missions--Philippines

FIL BX 4020 / .B35

FIL 282 / B159
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