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The PAPL-I (First Pastoral Assembly of the Prelature of Libmanan) created a new desire to realign the current pastoral programs; it prioritizes them according to the call of the vision-mission. The five vicariates of the Prelature of Libmanan identify the ongoing pastoral programs according to priority. The identification is categorized according to each pastoral program, its objectives, its recipients, its agents, its supports, its problems, and its time frame. The purpose is to clarify whether the existing pastoral programs and structures were in accordance with the vision-mission. PAPL-I is only a direction-setting step to carry out renewal in the parishes. For this reason, PAPL-I had not come up with a comprehensive and defined pastoral program of development for the local Church of Libmanan.
POST PAPL-I ACTIVITIES Establishing a Working Structure The primary concern of the post-PAPL-I is to foster awareness of the vision-mission of the Prelature of Libmanan at the parish level. On September 16, 1992, Bishop Arellano together with the Board of Consultors approved the recommendation to create an ad hoc Committee in the form of a Prelature Core Group (PCG) that was tasked to plan for the possible strategies in propagating the vision-mission of the Prelature on the parish level. The PCG was composed of the Bishop, five priests, and a lay leader who was directly linked with the Consultant from the NGOs. The PCG would design a working structure for the purpose of implementing the results of PAPL-I. The PCG created the Vicarial Core Group (VCG) as the pivotal point in the implementation of the PAPL I in the parish level. The VCG would facilitate the program planning in the parishes. Its members were the priests in the Vicariate under the leadership of the Vicar Forane as convenor, two lay leaders and/or workers from each parish, and the assigned researcher. Its main concern was to strengthen the VCG in order to serve as an extension staff of the Prelature. On the parish level, a Parish Core Group (PaCG) would be organized in order to serve as an ad hoc Committee since not all parishes had a functional Parish Pastoral Council (PPC). The parish priest and the lay leaders that represented the mandated religious organizations and clustered barangays comprised the PaCG. It was the working staff of the parish in the implementation of the pastoral programs. The PCG, VCG, and the PaCG were the immediate working structures that served as the ad hoc Committee in the implementation of the PAPL-I. However, the Prelature of Libmanan Pastoral and Developmental Coordinating Council (PPDCC) was in the process of being fully established. It acted as a consultative body for the implementation of all the pastoral and developmental programs of the Prelature. The PPDCC was represented by the administrative body of the Bishop, Vicar General, Financial Administrator, Executive Director of the Prelature of Libmanan Development Foundation, Inc. (PLDFI), two Associate Directors and two lay persons representing the Council of the Laity and the Youth. The PLDFI served in the transitory stage as the implementing service arm of the pastoral and developmental concerns of the Prelature. It was the primary program management and implementing structure of all the pastoral programs both in the Prelature and in the parish levels.
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