Membership in the PURISIMA FELLOWSHIP
Welcome to this Fellowship. Membership in this Fellowship entitles you the benefits of enjoying a sense of belonging where you can express yourself freely with the knowledge that confidentiality is respected, and that you are valued as a person who matters a lot to your family, to your community, to this world. You are facing forces, a lot of which are trying to pull you down: hip hop culture, video games, television, wrong conceptions of beauty and body images, drugs, alcohol, wrong use of cell phones, bad literature, pornography, texting, sexting, etc.
The good news is that you have a right to fight back, to mature and learn to evolve into the person God wants you to be. In this Fellowship, you will do just that. So, come to this Feast regularly. Remember the schedule: every second Friday of each month. (Calendar it.) This schedule may change sometimes depending upon the availability of room, but God provides. He will let you continue the learning process. Just be sure to answer His call.
OBJECTIVES: 1. to develop the members’ sense of identity, the better to get to know themselves through a process of self-discovery and interpersonal relationships;
2. to increase the participants’ spirituality---knowing God, loving, and serving Him---and grow in virtue and holiness with style, joy and grace;
3. to develop skills in combatting today’s sexual revolution; and
4. to increase faith in God and in themselves to gain strength in staying chaste until getting married within the sacrament of matrimony. Or, if a religious vocation is discerned, a choice of staying celibate is made.
5. beyond the six-month sessions, to be trained to become instruments in spreading to others their learned skills, thus, becoming mentors themselves.
This six-month training culminates with a chastity ring ceremony with a mass to be solemnized in church.
Below is your personal contract that you need to sign as
reminder to yourself of your commitment.
A duplicate will be kept on file in the
archive of Purisima. (Illustration shown in hard copy)
