ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE PARISH
916 E. Rusholme St.
Davenport, Iowa
| Parish Meeting #1 |
07 November 2010 |
Attendance: 50 no record kept of names |
| Task: |
Consider your parish’s strengths and weaknesses in the major ministry areas. These will be used to discern how parishes might best complement each other in these ministry areas. |
| Liturgy, Sacraments and Prayer:
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Recommendation made to potentially engage a paid, professional Director of Liturgy
to assist the parish in enhancing all aspects of its liturgical, sacramental and prayer
life. |
- Provide more opportunities for sacramental reconciliation and healing.
- Enhance full, conscious and active participation by all.
- Basic catechesis regarding sacraments and liturgies.
- Direct application of prayer and worship into daily life.
- Variety of activities and styles to encourage greater participation.
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Encourage/support continuing education for clergy in ars celebrandi - especially in
effective preaching. |
| Faith Formation and Education |
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Strong program and tradition of Catholic School education with determination to
continue. |
- Aging facilities and cramped for space - no lunch area, no space large enough to
hold entire student body.
- Desire to increase accessibility and availability to all
- No Catholic program for Special Education and Alternative Education in the
Iowa Quad-Cities area
- Non-school parishes need to support Catholic schools in concept and financially
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| Strong need felt for improvement in the area of adult faith formation |
- Adults not well catechized or evangelized in their faith
- Insufficient support in the homes for what is taught in the school and religious education programs
- Need to be designed and defined
- Greater availability and variety of opportunities - creative ideas
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| Educate for empowerment |
| Develop an active Faith Formation Committee |
| Social Action |
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Need to develop a concise, focused definition for social action activity within the parish.
- Msgr. Mottet’s “two feet of social action”
- Directory of activities within the parish - better comunication
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Incorporation of social action orientation into liturgies and prayers of the parish |
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Be specific in invitations to participate |
| Administration, Finance and Parish Plant |
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Strengths
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- Active parish
- Active committees
- Stewardship
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| Weaknesses |
- Lack of Communication within the parish
- Continued stewardship
- Financial support
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| Ideas |
- Is expansion necessary for church/school
- If so, how should this be accomplished
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| Family Life and Fellowship |
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Promote and educate for marriage and family enrichment |
| Expand knowledge and interest in Mass |
- Education component at soup suppers
- Stop and go mass
- Increase greeter participation including children (kids reading petitions, children’s homily, children’s mass)
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| Outreach to non-participating members |
- Recognize participation in church activities (various ministries, envelope usage)
- School newsletter, publication of mass times, e-mail notifications, etc.
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| BE BOLD |
| Church Life, Stewardship and Vocations |
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Become more openly welcoming |
- Recognize guests and visitors at mass
- Outreach testimonies
- Greeters
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| Emphasize the blessings received from tithing |
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| Getting involved and staying involved |
- Take your ministry seriously
- Promote new people to get involved - turn around of those involved in a particular ministry
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| Provide more structure to the ministries |
- More education, training, support of expectations
- Ministries as an honor - a gift to God
- Blessings received
- Better coordination between ministries
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AREA NEED CONSIDERATIONS |
| St. Paul the Apostle Parish serves the following community needs: |
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- St. Mary Health Care and Rehabilitation Center - Catholic Mass every other Tuesday at 1:30PM. Communion provided every Tuesday
- Senior Star at Elmore - Mass on the second Friday of each month at 9:45AM. Communion provided every week
- CASI - Communion every Friday
- Spring Village - Communion every Friday
- Manor Care at Utica Ridge - Communion every Friday
- 13 individual homebound members receive Communion calls every Friday
- Priests serve as primary sacramental providers to Genesis East Campus for emergency situations and when individual’s own pastor cannot be reached
- Hospital visitations for all parishioners known to be hospitalized
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