Sta Teresa de Avila run draws huge field

MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of runners have signed up for the Takbo para kay Sta Teresa de Avila, a fun run marking the fifth centenary celebration of the first woman Doctor of Church, set Sunday simultaneously in Quezon City and San Pablo City.

The event, featuring 3K and 5K runs, will have the theme “Takbo Mo, Dasal Ko,” which entitles registered participants to submit a request to be prayed over by the Carmelite nuns.

Sponsored by P&G with Safeguard as presentor, the fun run will be preceded by a Holy Mass at 6 a.m. at Our Lady of the Mt. Carmel Shrine Parish in New Manila in QC and at the Liceo de San Pablo in Laguna.

For details, call up Thelma Antonio at 09178530904, Rose Rivera at 09336088580 or Tess Soliman at (02) 9048758 or visit the event’s Facebook account - Takbo para kay Sta. Teresa de Avila 2013.

Part of the proceeds will go to the Foundation for Carmelite Scholastics of the student-friars and the Care Fund for the elderly friars of the Order of Discalced Carmelites.

The event is organized by the National Commission for the Celebration of the Fifth Birth Centenary of Sta Teresa de Avila (Order of Discalced Carmelites) with Rev. Fr. Dan Fauste, OCD, as chairman.

Sta Teresa de Avila, who was born on March 28, 1515 in Avila, Spain, is known as the first woman Doctor of the Church as declared by Pope Paul VI in 1970.