The Lux Mundi Demo farm in Barangay Blumentritt,  Murcia, Negros Occidental, established by Chinese Brothers  in 2004 and further cultivated by Vietnamese and Filipino Brothers has helped many Murciahanons earn a living.

The demo farm has a piggery, fishponds, raises cattle, sheep and poultry,  has vegetable gardens with root crops, and fruit bearing trees, Vietnamese Bro. Jude Nguyen, demo farm manager, said in a press release.

“People are taught how to be reliable and good stewards of God’s blessings and creations. The congregation allows Murciahanons  to raise piglets until they mature and are ready for disposal. When the pigs are sold,  they just payback the congregation with the capital and again they are given another opportunity to borrow again,” he said.

This is similarly done by students who are enrolled at the Lux Mundi  school. They are given the opportunity to raise piglets and the profit that they earn is used to help pay for their tuition fees, Nguyen said.

For their poultry, they currently raise 2,200 layers and 2,000 heads of Cabir chickens, he added.

Their buyers just go to the demo farm to buy  eggs, the press release said.

The demo farm sits within the 12-hectare property donated by the Montelibano family to the Congregation of St. John the Baptist of Father Vincent Lebbe, or Ming Yuan, his Chinese name, he said.

Father Lebbe became the first foreign (Belgian) priest who turned a hero of China due to his extraordinary work as an instrument for the ordainment of the first Bishop of China, Nguyen said.

Through Rev. Fr. Stanilaus Su, the founder of the Lux Mundi Monastery, they were able to establish this Monastery with additional facilities such as the Catholic Ming Yuan College with pre-school, elementary and high school, seminary, demo farm and the soon to be St. John the Baptist Church which is set to be inaugurated on December 8.

The demo farm is an answer to the invitation of Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra to the monks of the Congregation of St. John the Baptist to engage in an agricultural project which is in line with their mission to uplift the living condition of the less fortunate, it said.

“All the things that we do here is meant to help provide our community with food security, livelihood, education for both  the intellectual and spiritual advancement of the people and also caring for our environment, Nguyen said.

The congregation subscribes to a saying that, “If a man is diligent, the Earth will not be lazy.*

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