Parish Councils

[Groo the Wanderer]

Our pastoral council serves to advise the pastor and to help him to implement what he wants done. He and his two associates always attend meetings. The two deacons attend when they are able. The council never seeks to impose their will on Father and recognizes that all ministries in the parish draw their legitimacy from him.

As for the seven weekend and the daily morning Masses, we used to have a Director of Liturgy and Music on the parish staff that coordinated everything. When she retired, nobody including the pastor realized just how much she actually did. As such, our pastor decided for now to have lay volunteers handle the various aspects of the liturgy. Not a liturgy council, since we all rarely meet at once. A different volunteer heads up and coordinates for Father: music and choirs, lectors (me woohoo), alter servers, EMHCs, ushers, and church decorations (altar cloths, liturgical colors, flowers, etc). Now double all that since we have English and Spanish Masses.

There is a finance council, but nobody seems to know what they do. All we know is the parish runs in the black every year. There is the paid staff that meets every week which consists of the three priests, the DRE, the CYM, the administrator, the data entry clerk (with 5000+ familes we need one just to keep all the forms up to date in the computer), the maintenance supervisor, and whomever is invited from other groups.



As far as I am concerned, parish councils exist solely to assist the pastor in his ministry in the parish. Once they deviate and puff themselves up with pride thinking they have any power of their own, they should be disbanded. They are not the shepherds, the pastor is. Werd.

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='Groo the Wanderer' post='1876631' date='May 27 2009, 02:59 PM']There is a finance council, but nobody seems to know what they do. All we know is the parish runs in the black every year.[/quote]

Would any of them be known by the name of Corleone?

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1876635' date='May 27 2009, 03:08 PM']Would any of them be known by the name of Corleone? [/quote]