MABUHAY! MANILA!
THE LOGO THAT WILL MAKE US GO
Here’s the official logo for our BCBP 32nd National Anniversary Celebration which we entitled “The BOAT.” A captivating graphical artwork and meaningful in many respect to promote instant identification and recognition for our community and public. Designing a logo is not a simple task since it requires a clear idea about the concept and values that will represent aptly in a very iconic way the subject. Bro. Noel Gatus of Las Pinas Chapter designed this logo based on his discernment of the story behind the 32nd National Anniversary theme “Go!…I am with you”. Bro Noel is an architect, interior design specialist, and an artist, who joined the community three years ago and now serving in the music ministry and breakfast team. Here’s his discriminating interpretation of the logo he made:
“The Boat itself is a symbol for the church, the bark of Peter. The Boat holds the Apostles and symbolically all of Christ’s Disciples and us, the Laity in general. The World is a Sea in which the Church, like a ship is beaten by the Waves, but not submerged (a simile of St. Hippolitus) which may have inspired this image (of the Church as a Boat). The image lingers in calling the Central Portion of the Church the ‘Nave’…It also appears in the Catacombs, as a symbol for the Church, which could survive any disaster. We are doing God’s Work, fishing for People, in Peter’s Boat, the Church. However, we are Strangers in a Foreign Land, i.e. the Boat is on the Sea, on the chaos that is not God. It is a dangerous and storm-swept place, where even seasoned fishermen can Fear. Yet the place that is not of God contains the People who need God, the People who would be Disciples, the People who would need Salvation.”
So, that’s it! . . . THE LOGO THAT WILL MAKE US GO!