Center for Integral Evangelization

 To promote a Christian atmosphere on the school campus, fostering respect and understanding of other faiths through Interfaith and Interreligious Dialogue

1. To help develop an inclusive and caring community through accompaniment
2. To provide opportunities that enhance spiritual renewal and personal development
3. To offer opportunities for continuous evangelization and catechesis in coordination with the Catechetical Studies
4. To enhance a deepening of faith-life and the formation of liturgical ministers and lay leaders

1. Recollections (Students and Employees)
2. Retreats (Students and Employees)
3. Spiritual Guidance (by appointment)
4. Personalized support to address spiritual questions, and seek direction, available through scheduled one-on-one sessions with a Campus Minister or School Chaplain.
5. Vocation Direction (by appointment) Individual consultations aimed at helping individuals discern their calling, discove different paths, and gain clarity on their spiritual and life commitments.

a. EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION:

1.  Ash Wednesday Masses (The beginning of the Lenten season)
2. Baccalaureate Mass (Graduating Students)
3. Chapel Masses (Tuesday to Thursday, except the 2nd Tuesday of the Month, which is held at Sta. Ana Shrine Parish)
4. Feast days of Offices, Programs, and Colleges with Patron Saints and Devotions
5. HCDC Founding Anniversary and Fiesta Mass (September 14)
6. Holy Masses upon requests like Intramurals, Pinning Ceremonies, College Fun Days, and many others
7. Holy Spirit Mass (with Profession of Commitment of Educators and Blessing of Students at the start of the Academic Year)
8. Institutional Monthly Masses with Birthday Blessing (HCDC Gym or Sta. Ana Parish)
9. Mass During World Educators' Day
10. Masses for our Departed Brothers and Sisters within the Month of November
11. Novena Masses in preparation for the School Fiesta
12. Red Wednesday Masses (for Persecuted Christians)
13. Sacrament of Confirmation within the Mass (in coordination with Sta. Shrine Parish)
14. Sending Forth of Interns within the Mass
15. Sending Forth of Liturgical Ministers
16. Vision-Mission Acceptance Rite within the Mass (For First Year and Transferee students)
17. Votive Mass to St. Joseph every 1st Wednesday (HCDC Chapel)

1. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Holy Hour)
2. Bible Enthronement: Bible Month Celebration (Month of January)
3. Blessing of Advent Wreaths
4. Daily Angelus and 3 o’clock Prayer
5. End of Christmas Celebration
6. For the departed brothers and sisters
7. For the Sick
8. For Various needs (e.g., calamities, National Emergencies, and other needs)
9. Holy Rosary before the Mass in the chapel
10. Marian Pilgrimage (October to December)
11. Mindanao Week of Peace
12. Prayer for Vocation (September)
13. Regina Caeli Prayer (Queen of Heaven) during Easter Season
14. Religious Clubs’ Day (which includes non-Catholics and non-Christians, like Muslims)
15. Way of the Cross during the Lenten season (Chapel and HCDC Grounds)
16. Wednesday Devotion to our Mother of Perpetual Help (except 1 st Wednesday)
17. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (3rd Week of January)

1.  Sacrament of Confirmation, Penance, and other sacraments
2. Basic Liturgy Seminar, Basic Bible Seminar, Lectio Divina, and other formation for Religious Club Members

 Altar Servers (Ministers of Service)

1. Commentators and Lectors Club (Ministers of the Word)
2. Crossian Voice (Ministers of Music)
3. Vocation and Discernment Club (Prayer Warriors/ Vocation Promoters)
4. Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion (for both employees and students)

1. Visiting the sick and the bereaved families
2. Orientation (Cultural/ Religious Sensitivity and Integration (debriefing) of Intercultural-Academic Exposure (in coordination with the Center for Linkages, Internationalization and Language Studies)