Historical Recap - Part 5

During the summer of 2003 the Task Force went to work. A steering committee was formed to set out how we would proceed. We formed ourselves into six committees: liturgy, education and formation, family life and pastoral ministry, social justice and ecumenical, new evangelization. Each committee was to spend the summer gathering information – huge amounts of information about programs, personnel and facilities. Some examples of the information we sought include:

• evaluations of each building’s condition
• capacities of churches and schools
• numbers attending Mass
• numbers of deaths vs. baptisms
• sacramental preparation programs
• ecumenical involvement
• social ministries
• numbers of students in our schools and their budgets
• numbers of parish employees
• and more.

Next week I'll give you some examples of the information these committees put together.

Fr. McGuire