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Meeting Called By: Kathleen Evers |
Presiding Member: Fr. John McCormick/
Kathleen Evers |
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Date: March
23,2009 |
Attending: Fr. John, Fr. Scott, Bill Fay,
Lynn Nasrallah,Robin Neel, Alec Sithong |
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Time: 6:00 pm |
Al Stinson, John Hawkins |
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Place: Parish Council Room |
Absent: Beth Schaan |
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AGENDA ITEM |
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DISCUSSION NOTES |
ACTION ITEM |
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1. Opening Prayer:
Fr. Scott |
6:00 PM |
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2. Welcome:
Kathleen Evers |
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Goal Summaries for all summaries are now complete and will be
available soon on the Cathedral web site |
Kathleen will coordinate posting of agendas, meeting notes and
goals and objectives after April 1 |
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3.Finance Update:
John Hawkins (for Beth Schaan) |
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1.The "real world cost" letter from Finance went out as planned
and there seems to be a little uptick in tithing income. A)..
Finance approved a cost-cutting plan B) all contracts and
maitenance scheduled were reviewed to determine more
cost-cutting measures |
A.) The Cathedral will only be open late (9:00 pm) on Wed, Thurs
and Sun nights . All other nights until 6:00pm. This will save
on staff and power, etc. B) The Finance Comm. will be developing
the budget for the next fiscal year. |
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4.Restoration Update:
John Hawkins |
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A)Dismantling of the organ is to begin on July 6th. No one will
be allowed in the church once this begins. The latest news is
that the weekend masses will be able to be held in the Social
Hall, not be at the Assembly Hall on the School
grounds.Construction "tunnels" have been approved for ingress
and egress for this purpose.B) The social hall will be
permanantly set up and there will still be access to classrooms
and meeting rooms |
A.)Due to a smaller seating capacity, an additional mass time
has been proposed.Adding a Saturday 6:00pm vigil has been
discussed , but nothing is final. B)They are determining a
suitable location for the Blessed Sacrament to be placed. |
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5. Stewardship/Alive in Christ:Alec
Sithong |
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Stewardship met on March 13 - see accompanying meeting notes .
John Hawkins gave updated figures of money raised or pledged and
the return rate is a phenomenal 60% from the leadership phase.
The School and Religious education raised $2,165.38 for Alive in
Christ. |
See March 13 meeting Notes A).Parish Gatherings are scheduled
and B) Pastoral Council members will help with thank-yous and
follow up in April |
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6. Pastoral Outreach Commission:
Bill Fay |
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Pastoral Outreach met on Feb 22 - see accompanying notes. They
explored different ways to communicate info. and promote
ministries |
See Feb. 22 meeting notes; Action items include: Feature stories
in the bulletin that include a photo of the ministry leader,
guest speakers at masses and utilizing the websites (school and
church) Implementation will be late Spring perhaps or early
summer. |
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7. Evangelization and Faith Formation:
Robin Neel |
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The Neighborhood visits plan was presented in further detail (-
Please see Planning Worksheet) these would be mulit-purpose
including exchange of information and ministry updates and
recruitment . Fr. Scott discussed some tools other parishes use
for new member packets suc as: calendars, directories, etc. |
A) Robin is currently building her team to go forth to the
neighborhoods. Twenty Families would be identified by
neighborhood (using zip codes,etc) for each gathering. The goal
would be for all families to have participated in the
neighborhood gatherings by the first year. |
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8.Liturgy and Worship:
Lynn Nasrallah |
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Benediction:A) Fr. John shared that Benediction training will
begin soon with the Knight Commanders as none of the altar
servers are trained in this. This will be done under the new
leadership of Kevin and Kelly Wilkes and then they in turn will
train the rank and file. B) Parts of the Mass C) Changing the
Sunday evening Mass time from 6:00 pm to an earlier time (5:00
pm or 5:30 pm) was discussed and tabled |
A) This will be more practical to institute in about a year.B)
The Priests will try to work it into the Homily when it is
appropriate and perhaps a "mini-workshop" presentation could be
held in conjunction with the neighborhood visits. C) Fr. John
thought it was best that no change should occur until after the
restoration. |
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9. Closing Prayer
: Fr.John McCormick |
7:45 PM |
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Next meeting:TBD - Had to be rescheduled due to change in
evening meeting schedule at the Cathedral |
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Meeting Called By: Kathleen Evers |
Presiding Member: Fr. John
McCormick/Kathleen Evers |
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Date: January
26,2009 |
Attending: Fr. John McCormick, Fr. Scott
Circe, Bill Fay, Dr. Lynn Nasrallah, |
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Time: 6:00pm |
Robin Neel, Beth Schaan, Alec Sithong, Al Stinson, John Hawkins |
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Place: Parish Council room |
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AGENDA ITEM |
TIME |
DISCUSSION NOTES |
ACTION ITEM |
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1. Opening Prayer:
Fr. Scott |
6:30 PM |
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2 Welcome:
Kathleen Evers |
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Our immediate business was for each commission to present
summaries of their objectives and written goals. |
Goal summaries would be published on the Cathedral Web site to
further improve our Ministry development. |
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3. Liturgy and Worship Commission:
Lynn Nasrallah |
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A) Adoration and Benediction once a month on Sundays B)
Explanation during Mass of what is taking place (i.e. why we
kneel here, and so forth) |
A) Fr.John was amenable to this idea - Lynn would work on
logistics -(suggestion was 3:00-4:00 pm) B) Fr. John and Fr.
Scott agreed to discuss further and come up with suggestions at
the next meeting |
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4 Evangelization and Faith Formation
Comm: Robin Neel |
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The goal of the commission centered around getting more people
involved and specifically recruiting new people. The "neighbor
to neighbor" approach was presented and discussed. The goals
would be: an opportunity for small group fellowship,a vehicle to
exchange information about the activities at the church andthose
in attendence would be directly recruited to serve in a specific
ministry. |
A)Robin will recruit a core group of Parishioners and develop a
plan to execute this strategy.(We do have parishioner list
broken down by zip code which will be helpful) |
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5.Pastoral Care and outreach
Commission: Bill Fay |
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Bill shared survey results in which his committee members
identified the needs and status of 12 "currently active"
ministries. The results, while non-scientific, reiterated the
problem relating to our ministries was publicizing our needs and
recruitmant."Piggy-backing" ministry meetings with other
functions could serve to publicize our ministries better and be
a recruitmant tool---(i.e. Have a SVDP table at the Knights of
Columbus monthly breakfast) |
A) Develop a rotation plan for putting ministry information in
the bulletin and on the website. B)Find events that ministries
can co-sponsor |
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6. Community Life Commission:
Al Stinson |
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Complete support and assistance was pledged regarding our
ministry recruitment efforts. |
Available for assistance regarding neighborhood meetings,
utilizing K of C resources. |
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7. Stewardship and Development:Alec
Sithong |
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Alec,Jimmy Caruso and Mitch Lenniger have been working with
Peggy in forwarding the Alive in Christ Program as their primary
obective. The Stewardship/Catholic Appeal drive is now taking
place- parish-wide mailing went out Jan 25. |
Preparing for parish-wide phasebymeeting with committee and
publicizing . Prayer letter to be sent out in March to
parishioners. |
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8. Finance Council
- Beth Schaan |
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They have been looking into implementing cost-saving measures
where possible in the Cathedral budget. Weekly tithing has been
consistently down and this needs to be communicated more
directly to the parishioners |
A letter under Beth's and Fr. John's signature would be going
out which very directly states the situation including real
world costs of runninf a Cathedral. The offertory notice in the
bulletin will be revised to reflect the costs of operations. |
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9.Cathedral Staff Liaison-John
Hawkins |
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Cathedral Restoration update:the groundbreaking is scheduled for
July. The current Leadership Phase of Alive in Christ is going
well, but the numbers for the Catholic Appeal are down. |
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10. Additional Misc. Items |
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A)Implementation of a "Stewardship Prayer" to be read aloud by
the congregation was discussed. B)In lieu of a Parish Ministry
Leaders Meeting we should begin compiling names for the
neighborhood sessions meeting |
A)Kathleen would provide some examples and forward to Fr. John
B) Robing Neel would formulate more details on the neighborhood
session plan and commission members will assist in any tasks
related to this project. |
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11. Closing Prayer:
Fr. John |
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Next meeting rescheduled due to Parish Mission |
Next meeting March 23- Parish Council room |
