“Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God-this is your true and proper worship.”- Romans 12:1
21 participants of the Parish Renewal Experience (PREX) Class 68 were given blessings during the Eucharistic mass last November 12, as a sign of recognition for successfully finishing the three-day Catholic Faith Formation seminar at the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Nuestra Señora de Aranzazu.
PREX is inspired by Pope Paul VI’s “Evangelii Nuntiandi” or Evangelization in the Modern World. It is a process-seminar with 5 stages which include establishing self-identity and understanding God’s plan with 11 interrelated talks about church spirituality and evangelization.
The goal of this seminar is to produce lay evangelizers or servant-leaders through a process of conversion of experience, self-renewal, reconciliation and reconnection to the Catholic Church.
Undergoing the process of Parish Renewal Experience enables the laity to actively and effectively participate in the life of their own parishes, promote the growth of their spiritual aspects and also to strengthen the foundation of the church.
With the success of the PREX Class 68, parish’s Formation Ministry looks forward to engaging more participants to the forthcoming batch of the seminar to willingly serve not only their brothers and sisters but most especially the Lord.
Mariele Aquino
Junior Writer, Website Team, Media Ministry
Mariele R. Aquino is a member and website writer of the NSDA’s Media and Public Information Ministry, an aspiring future medical specialist and currently a STEM senior high school student in the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas. Her principle in life is that genuine success is something achieved through a path and battlefield of dodging a thousand bullets without the course of self-centered desires and conducts for temporary existential accomplishment. As a form of simple youthful religious fervor, Mariele used her skills, talent and dedication in writing to serve her Lord but also to grow not only intellectually but more on spiritually.
