About Us

The Bukas Loob sa Diyos (Open in Spirit To God) Catholic Charismatic Covenant Community is a pioneering lay organization in the Philippine renewal movement. Founded in June 1985, BLD has been organizing life-changing Encounter retreats for families, married couples, singles, solo parntsand the youth; and a Christian life program, the Life in the Spirit Seminar.

BLD is now a global community and has districts and prayer groups in the Philippines, Canada, United States & Hongkong.These evangelization programs have transformed and uplifted thousands of lives through the shepherding of Community disciples towards the path of wholeness through the power of the Holy Spirit. This is what the Community is all about: opening our hands, our minds, our hearts, and our whole being to the Spirit of the Living God – Bukas Loob sa Diyos.Transformation begins when those who are called to Community life take that first big step in committing to the new life and healing journey that Jesus Christ offers through the Community.After our Encounter with the Lord in the Retreat or in the Seminar, a member journey through formation and pastoral care programs that lead to our Covenanting with the Lord: we seal our relationship with God, we become His servant, His bridesmaid, His beloved.As we are transformed in Christ, we too follow Christ’s mission in reaching out to the downtrodden and the poorest of the poor.

Through our homegrown Scholarship of Hope, we support poor students under the country’s public school system. We select beneficiaries regardless of a student’s academic status—from high-achievers to the academically challenged—as long as the student is willing to acquire education.Aside from these, we regularly conduct mission activities to care and empower the old, the sick, abandoned women and children, prisoners and survivors of natural disasters.

In the City of Mississauga, a suburb (west) of Toronto, we are a multi-ethnic parish community based in St. Francis Xavier Parish, located on Mavis Road. We are known as Open in Spirit to God BLD and we are governed and managed by a District Council of Stewards composed of 5 couples who are all covenanted members. OSG BLD Mississauga @ SFX Community remains true to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and submits to the authority of the Roman Pontiff and the Archbishop of Toronto and under the guidance of our Community Chaplain, Fr. James Cherickal, Pastor of St. Francis Xavier Parish. We also follow the ways and directions of the BLD Global Community through its Council of Servant Leaders in empowering the lay faithful in spreading God’s love and promoting Christian values through Encounter and Renewal programs and various ministries.