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Parish Pastoral Council Meeting Minutes
March 12, 2009
1. Opening with Evening Prayer
2. Attendance
Members Present: Fr. Dave, Deacon Charlie Cornell, Nancy
Buck, Charlie Corley, Jason Crotty, Jennifer
Cunningham, Dave Goulet, Sue Ormand,
Brian Perreault, Bill Sullivan, Jack Waldie
Members Absent: Deacon Bob Brady, Marcia Melone,
Cara Schomp
PFC Liaison: Rosario Rizzo (present)
3. Approval of minutes
See web site for minutes.
4.
Mission goals
o involving
children and adults through programs to experience a growth in their faith
o making
available religious experiences outside of Mass
o increase
faith commitment of people
- Restated
- It is the goal of this parish to strengthen the faith commitment of the
parishioners, both children and adults, by involving them in programs that
will allow them to experience a growth in their faith
- Change
programs to opportunities?
- We
want to change community approach to faith
- Make
faith visible in the way we live our lives
- Do
we live in a way that we make Christ present?
- GOAL
#2 – outreach to other clusters
- discussions
with St. Michael’s
- St.
Michael’s to list their events in our bulletin
- cluster
consists of: St. Isidore’s, St.
Bridget’s (Maynard), St. Elizabeth’s (
Acton),
Holy Family (
Concord)
- joint
penance services in past
- put
info from St. Michael’s in our bulletin
- Restated
- It is the goal of this parish to develop a plan to reach out to other
parishes within our cluster. This
outreach can be on an informal and/or formal basis.
- Establishing
relationships with our cluster
- End
of the year might see some direction on cluster organization
- Office
of spiritual life
- Workshop
coming up at St. Michael’s
- Look
on St. Michael’s website
- 3/29
6-8PM
5. Church tithing update (Fr. Dave)
- Catholic
Appeal started this week, numbers are way up
- Weekly
collections are down
- $26K
so far for grand annual
- Paid
$3000 for plowing
6. Committee updates
- Social
- St.
Patrick’s party ticket sales a bit slow
- Building
and Grounds
- No
meetings for a few months, meeting next week
- Suggested
- have an Easter/pre-Easter spring cleaning
- Used
to do it every year
- Clean
church, wipe down kneelers, pews, etc.
- Boiler
repairmen here last couple of days
- Faith
Formation (GOF)
- Theme
–living the moral life
- Started
with two great commandments
- Ten
Commandments covered over course of year
- Friday
attendance has been light
- Start
out year 200-250 (both sessions)
- About
150 more recent sessions
- Possibly
require all parents of 1st communion kids to take VIRTUS
training
- other
committees
- Finance
Committee
7. Election for new PPC members
- 4
members leaving: Bill Sullivan, Dave Goulet, Sue Ormand, Cara Schomp
- Consider
names for new members
8. Next meeting
- Currently
scheduled for Holy Thursday
- Meeting
rescheduled for 4/16 7:30PM
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