2025 ENDORSED ORGANIZATIONS

  1. Marians of the Immaculate Conception & EADM

  2. The Legion of Mary

  3. The Knights of Columbus

  4. Stephen Ministries

  5. PECS (Parish Evangelization Cell System)

  6. Pax Christi International

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON PECS 

The System of the Parish Cells of Evangelization dates back to 1987, when the Rev. Don Piergiorgio Perini introduced in Italy a pastoral method learned from Reverend Msgr. Michael J. Eivers, in the United States. After it’s introduction, in the parish of Sant'Eustorgio in Milan, it began to form numerous parish cells of evangelization in different countries of the world. The system provides for the formation of small groups of believers who gather to deepen the Christian life as a life of faith and evangelization, fortifying through prayer, spiritual and doctrinal formation, and mutual sharing of concrete experiences of evangelization.

Given at the Vatican, April 12, 2015, the Feast of Divine Mercy.