The 500th anniversary celebration of Christianity in the Philippines provides an opportunity to give thanks to the Spanish missionaries who brought the Christian faith to our shores. The faith they sowed, however, still needs to be nourished and nurtured for it to mature and bear fruit in works of love and justice. This is the lesson we can learn from Moses Jarvis R. Catan’s essay, “The Semantic Metamorphosis of ‘Evangelization’: Formulating a Definition of Evangelization Based on Action, Content, and Result,” for the task of inculcating the Gospel’s values among our people is still sorely wanting even after five centuries of Christianity. Secularization and the loss of faith, especially among the youth today, prompt our Church to embark on a New Evangelization in which the laity plays an important role and where innovative approaches and creative tools of evangelization are called for. – F. Ramirez (ed.)