Organizational Chart & Descriptions I Objectives of Different Ministries I Religious Organizations
Religious Institutions I Different Sponsored Projects

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART







Organizational Chart Descriptions:
  • Parish priest and his assistants – appointed by the Salesian religious superior in agreement with the Bishop.  They are the official head of the parish.
  • Core Staff – the Pastoral council composed of appointed members who assist the Parish Priest in the discernment and in the decision-making process on matters pertaining to the life and mission of the church.
  • Pastoral Staff – a consultative body composed of the heads of the different groups who assist the parish priest and the Core staff in their discernment and decision-making roles through their feedback.  They are also tasked to implement the plans and programs of the parish.
  • Mandated Organizations – existing religious groups with affiliation to the central body in the Archdiocese.  They have objectives that respond to the general needs of the Church on the national and archdiocesan level.
  • Movements – groups inspired by the Spirit whose primary aim is to nourish the spiritual life of the members and concretely express their spirituality through formation and evangelization.
  • Ministries – services that come from the gifts to the Spirit to individual Christian in order to respond to the relevant needs of the community according to the mission of the Church.  It requires the individual discernment of gifts and talents and a clear identification of the important and urgent concerns of the community.
  • Religious groups – men and women who have professed the evangelical counsels and through  their active life, they help in building the Christian community by sharing the charism of their congregation.
  • Barangay/Homeowners Representatives – invited observers from their respective civic groups for proper coordination of church and civic activities and for the promotion of the common good.

OBJECTIVES OF THE DIFFERENT MINISTRIES
I.  EXISTING MINISTRIES (structured and actively involved in various activities)
  • Liturgical Ministry – to improve the celebrations of the Sunday masses.  Their goal is to make the celebrations a fitting worship to God and a source of inspiration to the people.
  • Prayer Ministry – to unify the different forms of prayer and devotions by making common intercessions for the needs of the community.  Their aim is to improve and give meaning to the feast days and popular devotions.
  • Music Ministry – to coordinate all choir groups.  Their goal is to select song that will inspire the church goers and foster unity and participation of the faithful.
  • Family Ministry – to coordinate all movements that have to do with family and to enhance the couple and family relationship through Marriage and Family encounters.
  • Youth Ministry – to unify all youth groups by organizing common religious and social activities with programs that are formative in nature and equipped with a journey of faith and youth spirituality.
  • Catechetical Ministry – to recruit and form volunteer adult and youth catechists that will provide catechetical instruction to the children in F. Serrano, in the mission areas and in the church for the Sunday school children.
  • Housing Ministry – to provide the poorest of the poor decent homes where christian values in the family and in the community are promoted; they also aim to awaken the social consciousness of the parishioners towards the Church of the poor.
  • Finance Ministry – to assist the parish in the financial management of its resources through the budgeting process.  Their goal is to introduce the tithing system as the main source of finances and be transparent in the disbursement of funds.
  • Livelihood Ministry – to assist the poor and low income families through job placements and income generation programs.  They will also set up an efficient Cooperative Association.
  • 10. Public Affairs Ministry – to coordinate with the Barangay and other civic organizations and to make representations to the local government for their support and assistance in resolving the urgent problems in the community.
  • PPCRV Ministry – to insure clean and honest election through voters education, scrutiny of the list of voters, watchful manning of polls during election time and monitoring the efficiency of the elected officials.
  • Federation of Homeowners Ministry – to assist in the formation of the Federation and to maintain a harmonious relationship between the parish and the associations.
  • Communication Ministry – to disseminate the necessary information concerning the mission and activities of the church through the use of mass media and the Parish Bulletin.
  • Community Organization Ministry – to teach the people in the Mission areas the knowledge and skills in community building and to empower them to liberate themselves from their miserable situation.
II. EMERGING MINISTRIES (existing but without clear structure)
  • Formation Ministry – to provide programs of formation that will promote growth in faith by making the use of the teachings of the Church.  They provide human formation and training for the acquisitions of pastoral skills.
  • Secretariat Ministry – to put the church records and documents in order to insure the proper documentation of significant meeting and events.
  • Campus Ministry – to provide parish awareness and involvement among the students of schools within the parish in coordination with their administrators.
  • Fellowship Ministry – to foster camaraderie and friendship in the community members through socials and cultural presentations.
  • Scholars Ministry - to provide the out-of-school youth and adults the opportunity to have a formal education either through scholarship in public schools or through the nigh classed in the seminary by volunteer teachers.
  • Healing Ministry – to give importance and assistance to the sick, the aged and the handicapped through regular home visitation, administration of the sacraments and moral support.
III. OTHER MINISTRIES
  • Bible Ministry – to satisfy the thirst for God’s Word particularly in its application to daily life and to promote evangelical activities and home visitations.
  • BEC ( Basic Ecclesial communities) Ministry – to study and introduce the new way of being church that inserts itself in the concrete situation of peoples’ lives and neighborhood experiences.
  • Vocations Ministry – to assist the youth in discerning what state of life to take and what career to choose and to accompany them in the vocation they have chosen.
  • Household Helpers Ministry – to take care of the spiritual formation of helpers and the acquisitions of human values.

Different Religious Organizations

ADORACION NOCTURNA FILIPINA
The Adorer (ANF) help each other, understand and love Jesus Christ, in the Mystery of the Eucharist so as to live it more fully both in their personal and social lives.  By adoring the real Presence of Christ, they derive the Spiritual Dynamism to be active in church life.
ACTIVITIES:
Eucharistic Vigil, other social community projects and regular activities.
ANTIOCH MOVEMENT
A parish-based ministry of youth to youth.  It is for young ages 15-21, people who are in the mid-high school up to college.  A peer oriented ministry, no hindrance or gap which makes the youth relate to their feeling.  It offers no preaching making it more down-to-earth and promises you are reliable experience.  Helping our youth develop a love for Jesus and of his church through an experience of community – a community where they are always welcome, and where they can find a relevant and supportive environment.
ACTIVITIES:
Team-building and spiritual enhancements before weekend/seminar.
APOSTLESHIP OF PRAYER
Association of Christian people called “Promoters” who are united in daily commitment of their lives to God in union with Christ’s Eucharistic sacrifice to carry out the work of his redemption in their own neighborhood.  It intensifies their Christen life through devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, promotes devotion in every way and urges its members to practice and spread its devotions especially in their families.  A program  of special community building is experienced in their unit meetings.
ACTIVITIES:
Morning offering, First Friday Mass Adoration, enthronements, house blessing coordination, Holy Hours, processions, parish census, recollections, retreats, parish-section linkage.
ARCHCONFRATERNITIES OF MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (Juniors and Aspirants)
An association exclusively for girls who are to live in the Marian Ideals of Devotion, Imitation and Action.
ACTIVITIES:
Choir singing every First Saturday 6:00pm mass, Flores de Mayo, Coordinating with the Senior Archcon, 24th devotion and organizing their other Marian activities.
CATHOLIC WOMEN’S LEAGUE
An all-woman association that promotes the spiritual, moral, educational and socio-economic welfare of the community especially the indigent families of the parish, so that their ideal as expressed in their motto, “Charity, Work, Loyalty” could be experienced within our parish.
ACTIVITIES:
Free medical and dental clinic.  Self-reliance center/offering, dressmaking, tailoring, cosmetology, and high speed sewing.  Sacramental services-marriage validation, baptismal/confirmation and sick visitation.  Nutrition program-rice/milk distribution, livelihood projects.
CHRISTIAN FAMILY MOVEMENT
A movement of Christian families who join efforts to promote the human and Christian values of the family, so that it may become in the community a force persons, transmits the faith and through its members, is committed to the total development of the family and the community.  The thrust of the CFM is person-oriented, family-centered, and parish-directed.  Their objectives are:  to sanctify its members and their families, to undertake the apostolate of Christian family life, to Christianize their environment.
ACTIVITIES:
Family Life Education, Marriage Encounter, Marriage Enrichment, Tipanan, Sons and Daughters Encounter, Engaged Couples Encounter, Family Encounter, Solo Parents Leadership Seminars, Premarital Counseling and Marital Counseling. 
CONFERENCE OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
A charity arm of the Parish.  They imbibe in themselves the spirit of St. Vincent de Paul who Sanctified himself in loving the poor.  Their personal service is geared to personal and community development of the under privileged in social action program.
ACTIVITIES:
Material and Spiritual aid to depressed areas, scholarship fund, calamity and funeral assistance, Christmas packages, community development, medical assistance.
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTER OF HOLY EUCHARIST
They are commonly known as Lay Ministers.  These men eagerly devoted their lives for the service of the people.  Having attended the seminar conducted by the Ministry of Liturgical Affairs of the Archdiocese of Manila, they are commissioned to help distribute communion either Mass or event given to the sick or the dying with love of Jesus.
ACTIVITIES:
Devotion to Eucharist Seminars, adoration, and liturgical committee. 
HOLY NAME SOCIETY
All men organization whose general aim is to worship the Holy Name of Jesus both with their clean hears and lips and with their exemplary Christian lives.  They observe the practices of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Name of Jesus.
ACTIVITIES:
Frequent reception of the sacraments, organizing all-male retreats, fostering the apostolate of the Catholic Press, vigilance against indecency in the mass media, assistance in the youth development projects of the parish, marshaling during processions. 
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
A Catholic fraternity engaged in a continuing service to the church, family and community.
ACTIVITIES
Pecuniary aid, mutual assistance, communication links among members as beneficiaries and educational charitable, religious and social relief for the community.
KNIGHTS OF THE ALTAR
Are boys who serve the Lord with gladness in all liturgical functions most especially in the Holy Mass.
ACTIVITIES
Service at the altar, processions Sacraments, youth activities, spiritual programs. 
LECTORS SOCIETY
A group of trained readers of the first and second readings of the Holy Mass.  The Society grow in their love for God’s Word in order to proclaim God’s Word with sincerity and conviction.
ACTIVITIES:
Seminar on God’s Word and proclaim God’s Word during Holy Masses as the Lector and Commentators.
LEGION OF MARY
An association of Catholics, sanctioned by our parish for any and every form of social and catholic action; under the spirit of Mary herself.  The scheme of the Legion includes personal sanctification and orderly system, perfection of membership, Legionaries obligations and weekly  meetings of the Praesdium.
MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS PRAYER GROUP
The Prayer Group helps the Christian to recover the power of the Holy Spirit given sacramentally to us during Confirmation so as to live a spirit-filled Catholic life. Through Pastoral Guidance, the Prayer Group helps the Christians experience a community life of prayer, teachings, fellowship and service to brothers and sisters in our parish.
ACTIVITIES:
Sharing groups, conducting LSS, recollections, outreach programs, book ministry, healing ministry, organizing Youth Ministry, Bibliarasal. 
MUSIC MINISTRY
The ministers animate the singing accompaniment of the songs the People of God sings every Sunday or Feast day Mass.
MEN OF THE SACRED HEART
An association of Catholic men united to bring the all-powerful love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus into the home, parish associations, market place, recreational centers and to the social and fraternal groups to which they belong.

Religious Institutions in the Parish

DON BOSCO CENTER OF STUDIES
The Salesian seminarians for priesthood and brotherhood are receiving their religious and ecclesiastical formation at the Don Bosco Seminary located at Southern Square.  Every weekend these seminarians go to different parishes and youth centers to train in the pastoral work.  Some of their priest and brothers come to help us in our parish.  At the end of the seminary’s senior – Theologians.
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CONVENT AND SCHOOL
In 1978, the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Hearts (FSSH) came from Italy to establish a school for boys and girls.  They have chosen our parish as the site of their school located at Remmanville.  Presently, they offer kindergarten, elementary, and high school education.  Their convent is also formation house for future sisters.
MOTHER MADDALENA STARACE
Another school run by Compassionate Sisters.  They cater pre-school and elementary levels.
LA PIETA CONGREGATION
They are Italian Congregation who takes care of the sick people in the parish, and old priests.
MISSIONARY SISTER OF PERPETUAL
They charism is taking care of the depressed.
HANDMAIDS OF THE SACRED HEARTS
They consists of Korean sisters and they run a school for pre-schoolers.
AIN KARIM SALESIAN RETREAT HOUSE
A retreat house good for 50 people at a time, lies at St. Dominic Savio St. Remmanville near the Immaculate Heart of Mary School.

Different Sponsored Projects

  • Weekly medical and dental services (JCWL)
  • The Sunday School is an on-going activity of games, catechism, stories, confessions, Holy Mass for children of the depressed area.
  • The Pastoral Youth Council, which coordinates all youth activities, also schedule formation seminars for the members of the youth organizations, under the guidance of the Pastor and adult lay leaders.
  • The parish also lined up activities geared towards assistance in job placements, financial assistance for deserving youth wishing to pursue their education, sponsorship to vocational courses and trades such as dressmaking, tailoring, cosmetology, and high speed sewing (JCWL) and feeding program for the malnourished.
  • Self-help livelihood projects are continuously being organized and scheduled.
  • Mass Weddings for needy families are also being given due attention.
  • LSS Seminars (MHC Prayer Group)
  • Summer League.
  • Bazaar during Christmas Season.
  • National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians
    Mary Help of Christians Street, Better Living Subdivision, Parañaque City, M. Manila, Philippines 1711
    Tel. Nos. (63-2) 823-3286, 823-3288   Fax No.  823-9482
    E-mail Address: [email protected]

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