1. The Ladies of Charity
a. Vision/Mission: to imitate the Divine Savior in alleviating the sufferings of the poor, the oppressed, and the disadvantaged in the spirit of humility, simplicity, and charity.
b. Activities/Programs:
i. At the Lingap Center: Day care for Lolas, spiritual and medical needs attended to regularly
ii. Libis: Scholarship Programs for high school and college students, including value formation follow-up and catechism
iii. Thrift Shop: Sale of new and second hand items to finance projects
iv. Livelihood: Crochet of table and kitchen linens *
v. Home Visitation: Subsidized rice distribution to families once a month.
2. Catholic Women’s League
a. Objectives: Promote self-sanctification of members and others; promote spiritual, moral, educational, and the socio-economic welfare of the country; provide a medium through which Catholic women may uphold the faith and act unitedly in matters affecting the Church, the laity, the home, the community; foster ecumenical relations with other women’s organizations; participate in evangelization and Christian renewal.
b. Apostolate: Worship, Education, Social Services, Temporalities, Youth
3. Knights of Columbus
a. The K of C is a worldwide fraternal association of catholic lay gentlemen – a brotherhood dedicated to pursuing the principles of charity, unity, fraternity, patriotism within the Church, the community, the family, the youth. Its name is taken from Christopher Columbus who sailed out to discover new worlds both for his country and for God. The idea of conquering worlds for God serve as the rationale for the name.
b. Activities:
i. Act as honor guard for various Church activities
ii. Sponsor a Sunday Mass
iii. Church lighting for Christmas
iv. SILBI-LIBIS infrastructure development
1. Medical Missions
2. Computer
v. Youth-oriented activities: choir, Knights of the altar
vi. Family-oriented picnics
vii. Various responses to community needs as these arise
4. Apostleship of Prayer
a. Purpose:
It is a universal union of men and women who, by their daily oblation of the Morning Offering, unite themselves with the Eucharistic Sacrifice in which the work of our redemption is continuously accomplished. By this vital bond with Christ, they cooperate in the salvation of the whole world.
It provides it members with spirituality wrought through prayer, that will help them develop the interior life and live out their deep relationship with Christ, in loving service to others.
b. Activities:
i. First Friday Holy Hour
ii. Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in homes
iii. Prison apostolate for women in Camp Karingal (QC jail), providing medical, psychosocial, vocational, spiritual services.
iv. Outreach programs in Libis
v. Recollections
5. Mother Butler Mission Guild
a. Main Charism: the sewing of vestments and procuring of altar equipment. Donations of these to needy priests and parishes.
b. Social Dimension: caring for those in Bahay Liwanag, a home for terminal paraplegics; feeding street children
c. Spiritual growth: First Friday recollections and yearly retreats
6. Legion of Mary
a. Objective is personal sanctification and the spread of the Marian Devotion, particularly that of the rosary, including joining the children’s rosary crusade.
b. Social Dimension: Home visitations, spiritual referrals, feeding of pre-school kids.
7. Buklod ng Panginoon
a. The two-fold objective: Personal Sanctification and service to the least of our brethren.
b. Activities:
i. Weekly bible study
ii. Spiritual reading and sharing at monthly meetings
iii. Recollections and yearly closed retreat
iv. Participation in church devotions
v. Feeding programs
vi. Outreach programs for the aged, for youthful offenders, orphans
vii. Medical missions and clinic donations
viii. Support during emergencies and calamities
ix. Taking charge of the St. Ignatius Chapel
8. Christian Family Movement (CFM)
a. Vision/Mission Statement:
We are a community of families called to witness to Christ, led by the Spirit in building the Father’s kingdom. We share in PCP II’s mission of New Evangelization to evangelize all families, particularly the marginalized and the poor, to be evangelized by them, through the witness of each other’s lives pursued under a commitment to simple living, and the promotion of relevant family life programs. To achieve this, we commit ourselves to the service of the local churches, the Diocesan, Parish and Basic Ecclesial Communities. Our CFM units are training grounds for family life workers incarnating themselves in the parish communities as catalysts in the promotion of family life.
CFM proudly recounts that it was Unit I formed in February 21, 1978 by Ben and Pita Sucgang and Angel and Mila Reyes that was as the forefront of making representations for a church site and a permanent parish priest.
CFM has since engaged in various activities:
• Organizing the mass wedding and annual recollections;
• Holding seminars, marriage encounters, parish Lenten retreats;
• Sponsoring various socio-civic community activities
There are several units in CTK, each with 6 to 10 member-couples who meet every two weeks under the guidance of a chaplain or “gabay”. There is formation, the strengthening of family values, and training, including having programs for the children
b. Activities Marriage Vocation Program (MVP)
The Family Life Ministry conducted the first Marriage Vocation Program (MVP) in January 1996. A combination of theory and process, MVP address the specific needs of engaged couples. This program was based initially on that of Fr. Charles Gallagher of the worldwide marriage encounter movement, and his book “Evenings for the Engaged” and was later expanded by inputs from CEFAM (Center for Family Ministries) of the Ateneo. For CTK, the MVP gives engaged couples six modules over a 2-day weekend on: Images of Love and Marriage; Ways to Communicate Love; Sexual Expression of Married Love; Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning; The Sacrament of Matrimony; The Journey Ahead. MVP motivates engaged couples to pattern their love after that of Christ’s eternal love for His Church.
9. Couples for Christ
Couples for Christ share in the life and mission of the Church – through prayer, evangelization, and service to others, especially to the poor. This is done through the family – called to renew the face of the earth in the Holy Spirit, to bring good news of Jesus to the poor, to be a very special and effective agent of evangelizations.
Renewal, evangelizations, total human liberation are CFC’s main commitments through families that live faithfully in Christ.