St Pius ~ Parish Pastoral Council

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Meeting Date: June 21, 2010 Present: George Bellenoit, Joe Daly, Bill Gallerizzo, Barbara Fitzpatrick, Jean Kelly, Frank Sullivan, Jim Goldberg, and George Perkins To open the meeting, Daly lead the Committee in prayer. Minutes for the PPC meeting of May 17 were approved. Goldberg summarized activity on the parish Twitter account and reported 27 “followers.” The resignation of Beth Davis was received with regret because of her many contributions during her two years of dedicated service but with understanding for her family commitments. Concerning Worship, one of the Essential Elements of a parish, consensus was found around the following goal and corresponding three objectives: Goal: To achieve full and active participation in parish Eucharistic liturgies Establish a parish wide program of catechesis for implementing usage of the third edition of the Roman Missal by September 2011. Provide for Eucharist under the species of bread and wine at one or more liturgies each weekend beginning with Advent 2010. Welcome and encourage each ministry that is directly involved in liturgy (viz., choir, music, hospitality, lectors, servers, special ministers of the Eucharist) to develop in consultation with the pastoral council ongoing programs of formation to enhance the participation of its own ministers and the entire Eucharistic assembly by Advent 2011. After discussing PPC membership, terms of office, and methods for filling vacancies, a consensus formed around establishing written procedures or by-laws for the Council. A committee (Fitzpatrick, Sullivan, and Perkins) was formed to draft these for distribution before the August meeting. Filling the three current vacancies (Rooney, Marasco, and Davis) was discussed. The Committee decided not to hold a special discernment process in the fall in order to fill these vacancies. It instead decided to provide a process in the by-laws for filling incomplete terms wherein the pastor would appoint replacements. Discussion of various proposed goals and objectives for Evangelization, another Essential Element of a parish, continued. Goldberg will organize these for the August meeting. Discussion of a second parish assembly was postponed until the August meeting. Kelly will organize a discussion of goals and objectives for the Essential Element, Community, at the September meeting. A discussion of disseminating the parish mission statement was postponed to the August meeting. At the August meeting, Bellenoit will lead the committee in prayer; Perkins will record the minutes.
Meeting Date: May 17, 2010 Present: Fr. George, Fr. David, George Perkins, Barbara Fitzpatrick, Frank Sullivan, Joe Daly, Jean Kelly, and Jack Regan 1 . Barbara Fitzpatrick led us in an opening prayer of a reading from Ephesians 5:15, 23-24 2. Minutes of our meeting of April 26, 2010 were accepted as submitted. 3. Father George assured the council members that as decided during our meeting of April 26 notice has been placed in the weekly parish bulletin that our parish has a Tweeter account and an item has been included in the bulletin informing parishioners that minutes of our April meeting are available on the parish web page and at the parish rectory. 4. Father David informed the council members that a Facebook account has been created and notice of the creation of this account will be placed in future parish bulletins. 5. A resignation submitted by Maria Marasco was discussed by the council members and accepted with recognition of all the good assistance Maria has contributed to the work of the Parish Pastoral Council. 6. We briefly discussed “terms for office” for PPC members. George Perkins suggested that we review the Diocesan Statutes for Parish Pastoral Councils which we could use to guide us in deciding upon the length of the term to serve on the Parish Pastoral Council and as our method of selecting new members. This discussion will be continued during our next meeting. 7. We agreed our meeting schedule for the remainder of the year will be June 21st, August 23rd, September 13th, October 18th, and November 15th, with all meetings beginning at 7 PM. 8. We continued our discussion which has been going on for several meetings of a revision for our mission statement and finally agreed upon the following to be our mission statement: St Pius X Parish is a community of Roman Catholics established in 1954 within the Church of Fall River to collaborate with its Bishop. Nourished through Word and Sacrament, we attend to the Holy Spirit and follow our Lord, Christ Jesus. We give witness to our participation in the Body of Christ by welcoming, evangelizing, and serving all whom we encounter especially the poor. We decided that our agreeing upon a new mission statement (along with the statement itself) should be included as an item within the weekly parish bulletin. During our future meetings we will discuss how to request that the various ministries of the parish incorporate this mission statement into their role within the parish. 9. George Perkins led us in a discussion of Goals and Objectives related to the essential element of Worship. These goals and objectives developed from discussions during our parish assembly of October 18, 2009. We decided to initially discuss all four submitted Goals and their associated Objectives. After considerable discussion of all the Goals and Objectives related to the essential element of Worship, we agreed that two goals are interdependent and probably would be of primary interest to our committee. They are: To increase participation in parish Eucharistic liturgies and To enrich participation in parish Eucharistic liturgies. The objectives for these two goals we agreed need further development. George Perkins agreed to rework and improve upon the Goals and Objectives related to essential element of Worship. We hope this will be a major part of our consideration during our next meeting. 10. In planning for our next meeting of June 21st we agreed our focus would be “terms of office” for PPC members and method of selection of new members, discussion of how to request that the various ministries of the parish incorporate the mission statement into their role within the parish, Goals and Objectives related to the essential element of Worship and possibly continuance of Goals and Objectives related to the essential element of Evangelization. Joe Daly agreed to lead us in prayer and George Perkins agreed to record the minutes for our next meeting. 11. We adjourned at approximately 9 PM Submitted by: Frank Sullivan	Click for PDF Version
Meeting Date: April 26, 2010 Present: Fr. George, Fr. David, George Perkins, Barbara Fitzpatrick, Frank Sullivan, Beth Davis, Dick Zeich, Joe Daly, Jean Kelly, and Jim Goldberg, 1. Deacon Dick Zeich led the opening prayer 2. A resignation submitted by Paul Rooney was read by Joe Daley and accepted with recognition of all the good assistance Paul has contributed to the work of the Parish Pastoral Council. 3. Minutes of our meeting of March 22, 2010 were accepted as submitted. We decided a notice should be included in the parish week bulletin that the minutes of our March 22^nd. meeting will be available on the parish web site and also will be available upon request at the rectory. 4. Father George led a discussion on To Build A Stronger Church, a publication of the Bishop’s Office and the Office for Pastoral Planning, Diocese of Fall River (including A snapshot of the Diocese of Fall River and Cape Cod Deanery Comparative Statistics for 200 and 2009.). This was an insert included with the April 11^th parish weekly bulletin. 5. A discussion of the proposed mission statement revisions ensued. We agreed to send by email to all council members a copy of the revisions submitted by George Perkins and Frank Sullivan. We agreed that all council members should review all the revisions suggested and that we should have as one of our primary objectives for our next meeting of May 17^th that we come to a collective agreement upon a revised mission statement. 6. Jim Goldberg led a discussion on the updates on the parish Twitter account. We decided to publicize in the weekly parish bulletin that the parish has a Twitter account, “Capecodstpiusx., and that the parish will create a parish face book account 7. Jim Goldberg led a discussion of evangelization goals. We decided to continue this discussion during our next meeting of May 17^th. It was also decided to include as an agenda item for our next meeting of May 17^th a discussion of worship goals which will be led by George Perkings. 8. We decided to meet at 7PM on May 17^th and June 21^st with our focus for our next meeting being completion of the revising of the mission statement, a discussion of the evangelization goals and the worship goals. Barbara Fitzpatick agreed to lead us in pray during our next meeting. Beth Davis agreed to record the minutes of our next meeting. 9. We adjourned at approximately 9 PM Submitted by: Frank Sullivan
Parish Pastoral Council Meeting Date: Mar. 22, 2010 Present: Fr. George, Fr. David, George Perkins, Barbara Fitzpatrick, Jean Kelly, Frank Sullivan, Beth Davis, Paul Rooney, Bill Gallerizzo, Dick Zeich, Maria Marasco, Jack Regan, Jim Goldberg, and Joe Daly 1. Joe Daly led the opening prayer 2. Pastor’s comments: 1. Fr. George announced that he and Doug Rodriques (after prayerful discernment) approached Joe Daly and asked him to assume the position of chairman of the PPC for the time being. Joe accepted their invitation. 2. Fr. George also shared some of Doug’s advice for proceeding with tonight’s discussion. 3. Finally, Fr. George offered copies of the workbook entitled, “Revisioning the Parish Pastoral Council.” 3. Jim refreshed the Council’s memory of his suggestion for setting up a parish Twitter account. He and Fr. George will be meeting to further discuss this matter. 4. Joe asked the Council to review the material previously provided by Doug regarding the four major steps to parish pastoral planning (listening, visioning, planning, and implementation) in order to understand how far we’ve come and where we need to go in order to move forward. 5. Jean Kelly led the discussion on rewriting the Parish Mission Statement. Jean provided everyone with copies of all the submissions previously sent to her. Before the next meeting she will send these out again in electronic form along with the addition of Barbara’s submission. The discussion was fruitful and varied. It was suggested that all the Council members take time to review the various submissions before the next meeting. Meanwhile, Jean will provide a working copy of a suggested version of the Mission Statement that is a combination of the current statement and the suggested draft provided by Doug (based on results of the Parish Assembly). 6. Jim Goldberg led the discussion on goals (centered around the issues of evangelization, worship, and community). Jim provided everyone with a summary of those submissions he had received prior to the meeting. Because of time limits and the number of suggestions submitted, it was decided to limit the discussion to the topic of “evangelization”. A good part of the discussion centered around the need to be more clear about the difference between goals and objectives. George suggested we look more carefully at some of the guidelines previously provided by Doug from the above-mentioned workbook. The discussion ended with the suggestion that Jim try to “pull together” some of the ideas discussed. Until the next meeting Jim will be accepting further submissions for goals until (April 19) 7. Earlier in the evening Beth had suggested that it is important to keep the parish apprised of the progress of the pastoral planning process. Accordingly we decided that we will keep minutes of our meetings in order to record our progress in planning. From these minutes the Council will decide what/when/how this information should be shared with the wider community. [Jean reminded us that we should let the parish know that the Scripture study group, the reading group, and the opening up of the RCIA meetings to the wider parish were all responses to suggestions of the Parish Assembly.] 8. Frank suggested that the Council probably needs to meet more often in order to make more progress with this planning process. Accordingly it was decided that the Council would meet next on April 26 from 7 – 9. The already-scheduled meeting meeting for May 17 will remain on the calendar. Fr. George and Joe will meet to discuss possible more-frequent meeting dates for the rest of the year. 9. Suggested agenda for next meeting: 1. Prayer – led by Dick 2. Update on parish Twitter account – led by Jim 3. Discussion of Mission Statement – led by Jean 4. Discussion of goals (evangelization only) – led by Jim 5. Discussion of goals (community and worship) – whole Council 6. Discussion of “terms of office” for PPC members 7. Next steps Submitted by: Joe Daly	Click here to download the PDF version.