Minutes of Pastoral Council Meetings can be found at http://www.saintstans.net/PastoralCouncil.html
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Council viewed Part II,
“A Conversation with Thomas Moore” as part of spiritual development.
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Council reviewed the
need for Pastoral Council Highlights.
Highlights are an unofficial record of the council's meeting presented
to the Parish in a timely manner following a meeting. Meeting minutes are the official record and are approved as such
a month following the meeting at which the minutes were recorded.
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Catholic Education
Committee briefly discussed a proposal to “house” the Catholics Coming Home
Program at St. Stans while keeping it a Deanery wide program. Concern was that this might diminish the
opportunity for other parishes to participate in the program. Bob Rogers will meet with the committee to
further discuss this issue. The Council
recommended that the Catholic Education committee coordinate Deacon Walker's
desire to offer a program on the early church.
Mary Ann Powell continues to update the Catholic Education committee and
the Council on the Faith Alive Diocesan Program.
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Gary Tanko has been
named Chairperson of the Family Life Committee. Preparations for the Easter Vigil Social are organized. Mass in the Park on June 8, 10:30 needs to be confirmed with the Parks
Dept. Next year's proposed date is June
14.
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Justice and Peace
Committee meets every other month: next meeting is April 8, 6:00pm. Mission
Program was proposed by Dave and was also presented to Finance Council on
financing for the project. Finance
Council supports the idea, but did not recommend using monies from “We Belong
to Christ” campaign until other needs of the Parish are explored. The Finance Council also did not recommend
conducting additional fund raising activities at this time because we promised
them no more fund raising activities would take place in our appeal for “We
Belong to Christ”. The Pastoral Council
supports the concept of a parish mission and recommended the Justice and Peace
Committee further develop the concept.
Further, the Council recommends all committees consider a parish mission
project that could possibly be funded with We Belong to Christ monies. A key
component of such a proposal would be that opportunities to participate would
extend to all parishioners. Bob Rogers
will develop a more specific charge to the committees.
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Finance Council reports
Diocesan Annual Appeal is behind by $7,500; We Belong To Christ has collected
$141,000; Winter Carnival was down by $1,100 compared to last year. Families
who did not pick up their parish renewal letters will be contacted by
phone. No one will be removed from the
Parish Roles unless they request to be removed.
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Bob Rogers submitted
written suggestions to the Stevens Point Deanery Pastoral Council regarding the
role of the Stevens Point Deanery Pastoral Council in promoting communication
among parishes: sponsor and coordinate programs difficult or not suited for
individual parishes to undertake; promote individual parish programs that are
effective in involving small groups of people ... like Faith Alive; maintain a
deanery wide parish activity calendar; sponsor and coordinate deanery wide theme
retreats (at St. Anthony's for example)
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Fr. Al made surprise
visit to the meeting and told us he will be gradually assuming his duties April
1. Fr. Lynch will continue to
administrate and Fr. Stanczyk will help with Masses.
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Committees need to
submit meeting and event dates for next year's Parish Calendar
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Next newsletter will be
in September and will focus on stewardship.
A ministry fair may also be included as part of the stewardship
theme. Committees are asked to follow
up on contacting those who signed up during last year's fair and to give Linda
an updated list of all current committee members.
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The Church will be open
from 8am to 2:30pm weekdays and 9am to 5:30pm Sundays.
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Council memberships were
discussed. Members serve 3 year
terms. A member can serve two
consecutive three year terms. All
current members are eligible for renewal.
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Jim Kropidlowski will coordinate a Sunday
Pancake Breakfast after Easter.
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First meeting of
Catholics Coming Home to be held March 12, 7-8:30 at 2501 Main Str. Anyone interested
is welcome. Follow up meetings may
occur on the next two following Wednesdays.
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Ladick's donated have
the cost of removing snow from the parking lot which we appreciate.
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Next meeting, April 8,
2008. Prayer Leader: Jeanne
Retzke. Spiritual Development: Thomas
Moore, Part 3.