Last Sunday about 60 people gathered in the upstairs Church to hear about the Archdiocesan proposal for the Pastoral Planning 2012 initiative and to offer valuable feedback for the Planning Committee. To repeat, the plan is not to close any parishes but to restructure the way that people’s needs in those parishes are served. It has been emphasized over and over that at this point the feedback from all of you who make up the Church is vitally important to the planning efforts.

This meeting was so full that it was difficult to contain within the hour and a half limit; hence we plan to have another meeting once Holy Week and Easter are over. We encourage as many as possible to come and to share your opinions with us at this meeting. Change is never easy but we do need to make some adaptation in the future as the number of priests, pastoral ministers, and Church goers shrinks dramatically.

On another important note, next weekend is Palm Sunday…It has to have been the shortest Lenten Season ever!! We continue along with our planning and remind you of the candle making workshop next Sunday afternoon in the Parish Center at 1:00p.m. where we will make Easter candles for all our shut-ins. Don’t forget to drop off your candle stubs and come to the workshop if possible…many hands make the labor light.

Notes:
Video from the Pastoral Planning 2012 Town Meeting is available

Mass Schedules for Lent and Easter