This requires two specific sets of actions that are interrelated.
- Facilitate all Catholics to rediscover the vocation to be Catholic, so that the practice of the faith and parish involvement will lead to a deeper discipleship and commitment to church.
- To realign the structures of the parish to implement the threefold mission of the Synod.
The question posed to all are;
How are we progressing?
Education and training are ongoing but are all Parish Priests and Parish Councils on board?
Are there parishes that need help?
What help is needed?
What is the feedback?
16 comments:
Well done Dreamer. I hope this blog gets the support needed to give the you guys the feedback needed. Whats up with the calendar. I'm looking for upcoming Synod events
Where can we get the DVDs for the three pastoral priorities? our parish still has to show and discuss these presentations.
Hi Jacinta
You can get the DVDs from CAMSEL. I live in the North. I was told Fr. Joe Harris will be training the PITs on September 5 2009. We are looking forward to attend. Dreamer you can update your Calendar with that date.
This is a very important step to move the synod process forward. How can we get all members of the Parish Synod Implimentation teams to be part of the blog. Or better to use a Wiki to collaborate on the template for the parish? If we get a critical mass of the church in conversation about implementation and best practices maybe a new stage will arrive.
Msgr. Jason
Working on a Wiki now for the parish template. Should be done by tomorrow. Thanks all for the comments. I'm also working on the Calendar for upcoming events.
Derek
Well done Dreamer I see the calenda is up and running.
The Church is often slow to respond to crises, and when it does, it's often in a disorganized manner. When it comes to answering the questions of faith which people have (Catholics and non-Catholics alike), it was long the case that one could much more readily find people assailing and misrepresenting the Catholic view than find an actual Catholic source explaining the issue in question. Two solutions have been proposed to solve this problem:
1.0 The use of the media to transmit the Gospel message and the Magisterium of the Church. At this level, even where the Church is utilizing various means in the media to transmit her news (periodicals, various publications, radio and television broadcasts, computer networks, etc.), there is evidence that the use made of these media is often inadequate for lack of updated equipment, economic resources and sufficiently skilled personnel.
2.0 The integration of the Gospel message in this "new culture" created by modern communications. The evangelization of present-day culture indeed depends to a large extent on the influence of the media. At this level, there is a need to bring the values of the Gospel to bear on the ethical principles underlying the handling of information, the content of communication transmitted to the masses and the goals of working in the world of communications. Too frequently the goal of the agents of communications is economic gain and not the promotion of the person.
Views shared by Joe Heschmeyer
CALLING ALL MEMBERS OF PARISH IMPLEMENTATION TEAMS AND PARISH PASTORAL COUNCILS
Please be advised that the first of four workshop sessions with Fr Joe Harris for ALL members of the Parish Implementation Teams and Parish Pastoral Councils within the Northern Vicariate is being held as follows:
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 05 2009 AT THE DOMINICAN PASTORAL CENTRE, ST. FINBAR’S PARISH FROM 9.00 A.M.
As noted above, ALL MEMBERS OF THE PIT AND Parish Councils for each parish are expected to attend. All Northern Vicariate representatives who may not be members of the PIT or the PC are also asked to attend. Topics to be covered are:-
Overall theme - Transformational Leadership
1.0 The theological basis for transformational leadership
2.0 Purpose of church
3.0 Models of church and the importance of structure
4.0 Models of decision making which help or hinder the purpose of church.
What Does It Mean To Be Catholic? Share your Views. See The Catholic News and join the voices.
I feel blessed, honored and called to share the good news. Knowing this, I also feel challenged I can never be good enough. This is a tremendous responsibility. If I believe in Jesus and his call for all of us to be on mission. Then I will be judged by my response. His Grace is sufficient.
CALLED TO BE CATHOLIC: A REFLECTION
Msgr Michael deVerteuil
Once there was no me.
Then, out of nothingness,
infinite love called me to be.
Love called me to be Catholic.
Called to be a disciple,
a follower of Jesus,
I try to live my life
according to the values taught by Jesus,
the loving face of God.
Whatever my state in life might be,
single or married,
young or old,
sick or healthy,
There I am called to live in a way
pleasing to The Lord,
open to ongoing conversion through the Holy Spirit.
I am called to be Catholic.
I am called to forgive in an unreconciled world,
to respect life in all its stages,
and in all its different skin colours,
to serve God in the least of the Lord’s brothers and sisters,
to see the presence of God in all around me.
I am called to be Catholic.
I am called to friendship with the Lord,
to know myself as a child of the Father,
to live with God now
and forever with the Saints in Heaven
Called to be a person of The Word.
From The Scripture I read
and hear proclaimed in the Church,
I am formed and fed,
for no-one lives on bread alone
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
I am called to be Catholic.
Called to be a person of the Sacraments.
Through the waters of Baptism
and the oil of Confirmation
I became a Catholic,
healed in the Sacraments of Reconciliation and Anointing,
committed to service in the Sacraments
of Marriage and Ordination.
Called to be Catholic,
I gather on the day of The Lord
with other Catholics, my brothers and sisters,
fellow disciples, pilgrims together on the journey,
to listen to the Word, to take bread and wine,
to remember and give thanks,
to share the Body and Blood of the Lord,
and make of our lives a gift,
a spiritual sacrifice pleasing to the Father.
Called to be Catholic,
from the Eucharist we go, the Body of Christ.
As Jesus brought healing, truth, joy and reconciliation
when he walked on earth,
now we, Christ’s Body,
united in constant prayer with Mary our Mother,
continue his mission
building the civilisation of love.
Jesus, the head of the Church,
the light of the World,
the one who came to serve.
And we the Church,
called to be light and servant of the World,
called to be Catholic.
"CATHOLIC CULTURE AND IDENTITY"
"You know, the church is the one who dreams, the church is the one who constantly has the vision, the church is the one that’s constantly saying ‘Yes!’ to everything that life and love and sexuality and marriage and belief and freedom and human dignity—everything that that stands for, the church is giving one big resounding ‘Yes!’ The church founded the universities, the church was the patron of the arts, the scientists were all committed Catholics. And that’s what we have to recapture: the kind of exhilarating, freeing aspect. I mean, it wasn’t Ronald Reagan who brought down the Berlin Wall. It was Karol Wojtyła. I didn’t make that up: Mikhail Gorbachev said that...I guess one of the things that frustrates me pastorally is that there’s this caricature of the church—of being this oppressive, patriarchal, medieval, out-of-touch naysayer—where the opposite is true.”
-- Archbishop Timothy Dolan, in this profile in New York Magazine.
POPE PAUL VI
The Catholic Church, since it was founded by Christ our Lord to bear salvation to all men and thus is obliged to preach the Gospel, considers it one of its duties to announce the Good News of salvation also with the help of the media of social communication and to instruct men in their proper use.
It is, therefore, an inherent right of the Church to have at its disposal and to employ any of these media insofar as they are necessary or useful for the instruction of Christians and all its efforts for the welfare of souls. It is the duty of Pastors to instruct and guide the faithful so that they, with the help of these same media, may further the salvation and perfection of themselves and of the entire human family. In addition, the laity especially must strive to instill a human and Christian spirit into these media, so that they may fully measure up to the great expectations of mankind and to God's design.
Guidelines for Preparing the Pastoral Plan:
Focus on the theme
New Evangelisation: Christian Family Become What You Are. December 8 2009, to December 7, 2010
Strategic Objectives – What do we want to achieve?
Objectives must be brief, clear statements that need no explanation. They must be practical and achievable and must help the parish achieve its wishes.
Example of Strategic Objectives (Taken from Leadership Legacies 2008):
To create a communication program to recognize and celebrate this year’s first communicants by March 15
Versus
To create a replicable communication plan that can be implemented yearly to celebrate each year’s first communicants, starting this year by March 15.
Compare the two objectives and analyse the differences
The processes
Activities -How we are going to get it done? Decide on the best way of doing things.
Action steps – What we are going to do to achieve the desired outcomes? Agree on who will do what.
Resources – What do we need to make it happen?
Human- people and skills - Who has to do what?
Physical – Identify infrastructure and materials.
Financial – Analyse the assets and funding needed.
Start dates – When we are going to do things and how long it will take?
Agree on when each step will be initiated.
End Date- When will each step be completed? Set realistic expectations.
Action by -Put a co-ordinating mechanism in place
Assign responsibilities for information and communication.
Time lines -Put a monitoring system in place –
Assign responsibility for evaluating, reporting and review at set intervals.
Faithfulness of Christ, Faithful of the Priests, Faithfulness of the Laity"
Our mission as laity is the same with the priests, although different in the way of doing. Our mission is to evangelize. Everybody is entitled to evangelization, there's no effective evangelization without contemplation. Yes, the Church needs to be a listening Church once again.
References: Fr. Cantalamessa. Pope John Paul II
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