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Characteristics of a Parish Pastoral Council
- Prayerful. The council devotes time to reflective prayer at each meeting and makes provision at least once a year to have some special time or meetings spent together solely in prayer, reflection and spiritual sharing.
- Pastoral. The council is pastoral in the sense that its purpose is to assist in the development of an overall mission plan for the parish in order to make Christ evermore present to the parishioners and to the wider community.
- Representative. The council members represent the entire parish community and exercise their responsibility with a concern that includes all parishioners.
- Discerning. Through a prayerful consensus process, the council merges the diverse experiences, skills and gifts of the council members, and having listened to the parishioner’s needs and ideas, discerns recommendations concerning the direction and priorities of the parish.
- Responsive. The council has a responsibility to be sensitive to and cognizant of justice and peace issues at the local, national, and international level.
- Enabling. In the spirit of God’s love, the members of the PPC strive to recognize and support each other’s gifts and seek ways in which each parishioner’s gifts may surface, grow and flourish for the good of the Church.
Read more: GUIDELINES FOR PARISH PASTORAL COUNCILS
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Your Parish Council
Parish Council UPDATE: Nomination Period extended to February 1, 2023
Additional time has been added to the nomination period to allow for more nominations of interested candidates. Nominations to serve (either yourself, or another person you might have in mind) will be being taken up to Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Submit your nomination today, by email to: ParishCouncil@ReadingCatholic.org- Election for new Parish Council members will take place February 18 through February 24, 2023
- The New Parish Council will be published on March 5
GUIDELINES FOR PARISH PASTORAL COUNCILS (excerpt from Archdiocese website)
Purpose of a Parish Pastoral Council:- assists the pastor in his leadership role of planning, organizing, initiating, promoting, coordinating and reviewing the evangelization, worship, religious education and service activities within the collaborative.
- assess the needs of the whole collaborative and its members;
- develop and implement a pastoral plan which promotes the goals of evangelization;
- foster unity and a sense of community coordinate all collaborative activities to best serve the interests of the collaborative;
- promote programs and activities recommended by the Archbishop, Archdiocesan offices and agencies as well as the pastoral council itself.
The pastoral council needs to be aware of all parish activities; however, it is not within the purview of the pastoral council to direct parish activities.
Membership of a Parish Pastoral Council:- Ex officio members: the pastor/administrator, parochial vicar(s), assigned permanent deacons and pastoral associates, and
- Elected and appointed members - Catholic and is registered and active in the collaborative and lives within its boundaries. Twenty-five percent of the appointed and elected members may be active, registered parishioners who are nonresidents; participates in the sacramental life of the Church; aged 18 or older.
Two youth members, from those between ninth grade and eighteen years old, may be elected or appointed.
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Parish Council Members:
Stacey Bertocchi
Dana Chesnulovitch
James Fitzgerald
Karen Fotino
Ron Fotino
Paul Lannon
Marge Pearson
Ron Taupier
James Taylor
Frank TranEmail: ParishCouncil@ReadingCatholic.org
Archdiocese of Boston Guidelines for Parish Pastoral Councils
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