The document discusses the foundations and principles of New Evangelization according to a Synod on the topic. It emphasizes three key foundations: 1) personal encounter with Jesus Christ which leads to conversion and holiness, 2) the Holy Spirit as the primary agent of evangelization, and 3) recognizing youth as both the present and future of the Church, whose enthusiasm and creativity can be harnessed for evangelization. The document also highlights the importance of catechesis and youth ministry in helping the young develop firm faith convictions in an increasingly digital world. Overall, it promotes applying a catechumenal process and new missionary spirit to youth ministry for effective New Evangelization.

1. New Evangelization
with the Young

2. SAPIN – SAPIN

3. FILIPINO
PERSPECTIVE

4. the foundation
of the New Evangelization
The Synod Message
to the Young
Proposition 51

5. The Banana leaf or
“Dahon ng Saging”
What is New in the
Synod on NE? What
does it have for us
Filipino Catholics?

6. continuing
rather than
starting all
over again…

7. to proclaim the Good News
with courage and sense of
urgency in the spirit of Jesus
and the apostles.
St. Paul:
“Woe to me if I do not preach
the Gospel.”
“Preach the Gospel in season
and out of season.”.

8. The Synod, picking up JP II’s understanding
of NE, declared in its message: … “to live our
communitarian experience of faith in a
renewed way and to proclaim it through
an evangelization that is “new in its ardor,
in its methods, in its expressions”…

9. For Benedict XVI
an evangelization
that is directed
“principally
at those who,
though baptized,
have drifted away
from the Church and
live without reference
to the Christian life...

10. •Mga di pa sumasampalataya
kay Kristo (mission work)
•Mga binyagan at patuloy na
sumasampalataya kay Kristo
(pastoral ministry)
•Mga binyagan ngunit tulog o
patay ang pananampalataya
kay Kristo kaya malayo sa
Simbahan (re-evangelization)
FOR ALL

11. The Acts and Decrees
of PCP II and implement
them faithfully and
if there need be,
update them, with the
spirit of apostolic courage
and sense of urgency that
the Synod today proposes
to the universal Church.
Synod on NE and PCP II

12. The Synod recognized the
importance of the Second
Vatican Council and its
documents “as a vital
instrument for transmitting
the faith in the context of
the New Evangelization
….” (and) “at the same
time they consider that the
documents … should be
properly read and
interpreted.”

13. In the same way, we in the
Philippines should still
maintain that PCP II is the
blueprint of our
evangelization and New
Evangelization and hence
all the more seriously we
commit to study its
teachings, re-own its
vision, adopt it to today’s
context and truly live its
values and spirit.

14. “the need for a New
Evangelization is not peculiar
to the Church in the
Philippines…
At the same time this
Plenary Council is in line with
Vatican II (with its) leitmotif
of aggiornamento...
The spirit of PCP II is the spirit
of the New Evangelization…”

15. “this unified document
of our Council could well
become the Magna Carta
guiding the evangelizing
mission of the Church in
the Philippines into the
third millennium.”

16. The First “Sapin” or
Layer of Glutinous Rice
The Foundations of NE
according to the Synod

17. 1st Foundation:
Personal Encounter with Jesus Christ in the
Church as the conditio sine qua non for the
NE. The foundation of all evangelization.

18. The Personal Encounter
with Jesus Christ in the Church
The work of the New
Evangelization consists in
presenting once more the
beauty and perennial newness
of the encounter with Christ
to the often distracted and
confused heart and mind of the
men and women of our time,
above all to ourselves.

19. Di kailangan mag-imbento ng
bagong paraan dahil ang
mabuting Balita ay di isang
produktong sa pamilihan ng mga
relihiyon na ipinagbibili ayon sa
usong paraan. Ang kailangan
natin gawin ay tuklasin ang
paraan ni Hesus nang tagpuin
Niya at tawagin ang iba’t ibang
mga tao (ang mga apostol,
sina Zacheo, ang magkapatid na
sina Marta, ang Samaritana, at
iayon ito sa ating panahon.

20. “Our witness,
however, would
be hopelessly
inadequate if we
ourselves had
not first
contemplated
his face.”
(John Paul II, Novo
Millennio Ineunte)

21. Proposition 9:
“New Evangelization and Initial Proclamation”
affirms the importance of the personal encounter
with Christ and discusses it in the context of
“the ‘first proclamation’ where the kerygma,
the message of salvation of the paschal mystery
of Jesus Christ, is proclaimed with great spiritual
power ...”

22. What is new in this
proposition is
the necessity of a
Pastoral Plan for
initial proclamation,
teaching a living
encounter with
Jesus Christ.

23. SAAN
Matatagpuan
si Kristo?

24. The Church
is the space
offered by
Christ
in history
where we can
encounter Him

25. • the Baptism
that makes us
God’s children
because He entrusted to her
• His Word

26. • the grace of
forgiveness of sins
above all in the
Sacrament of
Reconciliation
because He entrusted to her
• His Body and
• His Blood

27. • and the strength
of the Spirit that generates
charity towards all
because He entrusted to her
• the experience of
communion that reflects
the very mystery of the
Holy Trinity

29. PCP II on the personal encounter
with Jesus Christ
“How to live as
Catholic Christians
today?”
It is to know, to love,
to follow Christ in the
Church which he
founded.

30. This is why
we need
to contemplate
the face---and
the heart of Christ.
We have to retell
His story
to ourselves,
that we may,
more credibly,
more authoritatively,
tell it to others.
This is our belief.

31. The Personal Encounter
with Christ and Catechesis
in the Philippines
There is a need to ascertain
that there has been the initial
proclamation and personal encounter
of Jesus among the catechized,
be they children, youth, or adults.
How can the catechized
“be in touch and in communion with
Jesus (the goal of catechesis) if they have
not first of all encountered him?

32. The Personal Encounter
with Christ and Catechesis
in the Philippines
The Sacrament of Baptism gives the
baptized the grace to encounter
Jesus Christ for the first time.
This encounter of Christ by the baptized
should be brought to their awareness,
deepened and confirmed through the various
means the Church offers, starting with prayer
at home and liturgy in the Christian
community, and in particular, catechesis.

33. From systematic instruction to deepening of faith
the catechized are helped to personally encounter
Jesus the Evangelizer and commit themselves to
think like him, to judge like him and to live as he
lived as they integrate knowledge of faith with their
daily life through fostering Gospel values and
developing faith convictions.
But does this take place when the catechists
conduct catechesis in the schools and in the
parishes?
The Personal Encounter
with Christ and Catechesis
in the Philippines

34. it is necessary that in
today's catechesis the
affective aspect of faith
formation is given due
importance in
catechesis in NE.
The catechists have to
be trained in making the
catechetical experience
less heady and cerebral
but more value-laden
and touching the heart.

35. “There are many who
are sacramentalized
but have not met
Jesus.”
Cardinal Donald Wuerl:
… there are many who have been
catechized and have Jesus in their
heads but not in the heart.

36. However, when we look at the
ministry of catechesis in the
Church in the Philippines, we
realize that almost 90% of the
effort done for catechesis is for
children and the locus is the
school, both public and the
Catholic educational institutions.
Very little is done in the parishes,
even in the families. No wonder
that our catechesis has been and
is still very cerebral. It has
always been dominated by the
scholastic and academic
paradigm and less by the
pastoral and evangelizing model.

37. How can we expect
that the graduates
of the Catholic
schools be young
men and women
with strong faith
convictions, who
have been truly
catechized and
evangelized?

38. How about adult
catechesis, the crown of
all catechesis?
Do the different forms of
adult catechesis (if any)
that are carried out in the
parishes highlight the
personal encounter with
Christ as a necessary first
element before
proceeding to any
catechetical experience
for the adults?

39. 2nd Foundation:
Conversion/Holiness
- End or Goal of all Evangelization
The personal encounter with Christ
leads the evangelized to a conversion
experience and to answer the call to
holiness. This is both the proof of an
authentic Christ encounter as well as
the goal of all evangelization.

40. Proposition 22
The New Evangelization requires
personal and communal conversion,
new methods of evangelization and
renewal of the pastoral structures,
to be able to move from a pastoral
strategy of maintenance to a pastoral
position that is truly missionary.

41. The New Evangelization guides us to an
authentic pastoral conversion which
moves us to attitudes and initiatives
which leads to evaluations and changes
in the dynamics of pastoral structures
which no longer respond to the
evangelical demands of the current time.
Proposition 22

42. PCP II on Conversion
“At the beginning of all renewed
evangelization is conversion.
Unless a person turns away from sin and
turns to God, undergoes a change of mind
and heart, and decides to follow Christ,
no evangelization will bear fruit.”

43. PCP II on Conversion
“Conversion then requires
the renewal of people’s
relationships and
their social structures.
By reason of our
pilgrimage to the Kingdom
of God, we need to change
our own hearts and the
social, economic, political
and cultural systems that
have promoted massive
poverty and inequity.”

45. Judge like Jesus
Our Personal Encounter with Christ leads us
to continuing conversion that is manifested
in our permanent commitment to

46. 3rd Foundation:
The Holy Spirit
- Primary Agent of
Evangelization
Ang Espiritu Santo:
ang pangunahing
tagapagpaganap ng
pagpapahayag
ng Mabuting Balita

47. evangelization and NE is
“essentially a spiritual matter”

48. Proposition 36:
The principal agent of
evangelization is the Holy
Spirit, who opens hearts
and converts them to God.
The experience of
encountering the Lord
Jesus, made possible by
the Spirit, which introduces
one into the Trinitarian life,
welcomed in a spirit of
adoration, supplication and
of praise, must be
fundamental to every aspect
of the New Evangelization…

49. “The first word,
the true initiative,
the true activity comes
from God and
only by inserting
ourselves in to the divine
initiative,
only by begging this
divine initiative,
will we too be able
to become
— with him and in him —
evangelizers.”

50. The Holy Spirit
in PCP II
“… continues
and brings the
work of Christ
to perfection.”

51. The Second “Sapin” or
Layer of Glutinous Rice
The Synod Message
to the Young (no. 9)

52. The Synod Fathers
are optimistic about the
young, while at the same
time concerned that
they are exposed to
various forms of
aggressions

53. The Synod Fathers encourage communities
• to listen to,
dialogue with and
respond boldly and
without reservation to
the difficult condition
of the youth
• to harness, not to
suppress, the power of
their enthusiasm

54. The Synod Fathers encourage communities
• to struggle for them
against the fallacies and
selfish ventures of worldly
powers which, to their
own advantage, dissipate
the energies and waste
the passion of the young,
taking from them every
grateful memory of the
past and every profound
vision of the future.”

55. PCP II
on the Filipino
youth
•are among the most active in raising the
social consciousness not only of their peers
but also of their elders
•are in the vanguard of many caused-
oriented organizations
•are active in the social apostolate of the
Church.

56. The Synod Fathers conclude:
• the world of the young is a demanding but
also particularly promising field of the New
Evangelization
• “Young people’s active role in evangelizing
first and foremost their world is to be
recognized.”
Briefly, the Synod recognizes that in the
New Evangelization the young can be and
are evangelizers among their peers

57. PCP II decreed:
• that “every diocese should form, organize and
mobilize the young in such a way that they get
creatively involved in the life of the diocese/
parish as evangelizers of their fellow youth.
• A systematic and comprehensive program
must be designed for this purpose

58. PCP II
“In rhapsodizing rhetoric
we extol them as the hope
and future of the land. Yet
precious little is being
done to ensure that when
that future will be theirs,
they will be prepared and
ready for it, able to hand
it on in turn to their
children with hopes of a
still better life.”

59. The Third “Sapin” or
Layer of Glutinous Rice
PROPOSITION 51:
YOUTH AND THE NEW
EVANGELIZATION

60. “In the New
Evangelization,
the youth are not
only the future
but also the
present (and gift)
in the Church.

61. the youth are a gift
of God who has an
extraordinarily
loving vision for the
young: one that is
truly incarnate,
preferential and
unconditional.
According to

62. According to
“in contrast with some
societies which see the
young people as in a
period of preparation for
a future role but as
lacking any significant
present role, the Church
instead views the young
less futuristically and
more positively.”

63. According to
The Church is in
“a profound solidarity
and identification
with the young,
calling upon them and
integrating them truly
as children of God
entrusted
to her.”

64. Proposition 51: “the stage of searching for
truth and meaning in life that Jesus who is
the Truth and their Friend can provide.”
The young are at a moment in
life that they long for friends
and they want to connect.
All their connections will end
nowhere when they are not
connected with Christ, even if
only as a Friend.

65. Proposition 51:
“Through exemplary
Christian adults, the
saints, especially the
young saints, and
through committed
youth ministers the
Church is visible and
credible to the
youth.”

66. Proposition 51:
“Wherever they are, at home, in school, or in
the Christian community, it is necessary that
evangelizers:
- meet the young and spend time with them
- propose to them and accompany them in
following Jesus
- guide them to discover their vocation in life
and in the Church.

67. YOUTH MINISTRY
IN CAPSULE
- Friendly Presence
- Christ Proposal and
accompaniment
- Vocational discernment and
discovery: the crown of youth
ministry

68. Proposition 51:
“the great influence of media on “the
physical, emotional, mental and
spiritual well-being of the youth”

69. Proposition 51:
through catechesis and
youth ministry the young
who are “digital natives”
are enabled and equipped:
• to discern between good and evil,
• to choose Gospel values over worldly
values, and
• to form firm faith convictions.

70. Proposition 51:
“The World Youth Day
celebrations and YOUCAT
are special instruments of
the New Evangelization.

71. New Evangelization with the Young:
Synthesis
• the youth in the
New Evangelization
demand from us
youth ministers
a new missionary spirit.
We need to connect with them in their
home and in social media as the new
mission territories for us.

72. New Evangelization with the Young:
Synthesis
• And as missionaries
of the young in the
New Evangelization,
we should strive to
learn to apply the
catechumenal
process.

73. The CATECUMENAL
PROCESS:the model of doing
catechesis in the New
Evangelization
During the Post baptismal
catechesis we can
experience the
catechemunate that begins
with the personal
relationship with Jesus
through the Gospels, the Our
Father and the 10
commandments.

74. New Evangelization with the Young:
Synthesis
• In the New Evangelization, the “new
youth” are today’s catechumens who
need a postbaptismal
catechumenate such that they grow
as Christ’s disciples not only because
of tradition but above because of
their personal decision.

75. Need to understand and practice
catechumenal model of catechesis
Post baptismal catechesis, without slavishly
imitating the structure of the baptismal
catechumenate, and recognizing in those to
be catechized the reality of their Baptism,
does well, however to draw inspiration from
“this preparatory school for the Christian life,”
and to allow itself to be enriched by those
principal elements which characterize the
catechumenate.

76. Pope Benedict
in his conversation
with Peter Seewald
“… we are heading increasingly toward a form
of Christianity based on personal decision.
And it will decide in turn to the extent to
which the general Christian character remains
at work. I would say that the task today,
is … to consolidate, enliven, and enlarge this
Christianity of personal decision, so that more
people can consciously live and profess their
faith again.”

77. Conclusion:
Mary, the Star of NE
The Latik
or Budbod

79. The Paper Bag
The Task of NE – The Transmission of
the Christian Faith
Let it be packed and let us bring it to the
Christian community the Lord sends us.
The “sapin-sapin” known as NE has the
task to transmit the Christian faith. May
we have the energy to get into the path of
NE and share the Christian faith with the
people we encounter at home, in the
neighborhood, in the Christian
community, in the workplace, wherever we
are. Like the apostles, may we preach the
Word in season and out of season. May we
be witnesses of the Gospel as Proposition
57 challenges every Catholic today.

80. “You will be my witnesses” (Acts 1:8). From the very
beginning the Church has understood her
responsibility to pass on the Good News. The task of
the New Evangelization, following in this apostolic
tradition, is the transmission of the faith. The Second
Vatican Council reminds us that this task is a complex
process which involves the faith and life of every
Christian. This faith cannot be transmitted in a life
which is not modeled after the Gospel or a life which
does not find its meaning, truth and future based on
the Gospel. For this reason, the New Evangelization
for the transmission of the Christian faith calls all
believers to renew their faith and their personal
encounter with Jesus in the Church, to deepen their
appreciation of the truth of the faith and joyfully to
share it.

81. In all these, with
the Spirit leading us
let us be directed
both by the
documents of
Vatican II and by
the Acts and
Decrees of PCP II.

82. The End