Minutes for Parish Pastoral Council

Meeting Wednesday 14th January ‘04                                 13th Meeting

Present: Fr William Davern, Michael Brennan, Theresa Kenefick, Jan Madden, Tony Prince, Margaret Rates, John Sharpe, Chris Sibthorp, Michael Tripp, Alice Williams (Selina Hough), David Walsh. Apologies:  Richard Davieson, Paul Killoughery, Carlos De Souza ,John Turner,

 

1. Opening Prayer and Reflection from Jan Madden

2. New Nursery. There will be a new nursery opening up at our school from 23rd February. Jan Madden asked for our prayers and she hopes that this new venture will respond to a need in the Parish.

3. Article in the Universe.  St Joseph’s has appeared in an article in the Catholic newspaper The Universe. The article has a few errors but nevertheless Parishioners may be interested to read it. A copy will be put up at the back of the church.

4. Help needed for adult formation Group. John Turner has requested not to lead the Adult Formation Parish Group. This is not unreasonable as he in very involved in other groups too. Thought needs to be given to possible people to approach to volunteer.

5. Parish Meetings and links to Parish Groups. In the guidelines for setting up and running the PPC it is suggested that we have open meetings with the Parish twice a year. Due to the relative newness of the group and the recent involvement with the reorganisation of the Parish Groups it was felt not to be necessary to have two meetings this year. Rather it is better to reinforce the links with the Parish Groups. We would like to invite Parish Group Co-ordinators and representatives to come on a rota basis to our meetings to allow them to express how they feel the group is getting on and more importantly how they believe the PPC can help them and perhaps highlight their activities within the Parish. We hope to begin with the Sacramental Preparation Group.

6.  Parish Group Update. The Social Group had a very successful Three Kings Party. They will also be announcing the date for a quiz night soon. The Finance Group should be meeting in February. The next Youth Mass is being organised through the Confirmandi. The PPC to provide refreshments and table tennis.

7.  Summer Parish Day. The Parish team asked the PPC to consider organising a parish day on the theme: A Community Afire. We were given a possible outline from Sr Margarite and some of the Catechists to get us started . The PPC were very keen for this to go ahead and to involve as many of our Parish as possible. A small group will meet to firm up a date and begin to flesh out the day and the organisation required.

8, Future Pastoral Planning. Fr Bill had asked the PPC to read and consider the deanery draft response to the issue of reduced numbers of priests in our Diocese and in particular to the possibility of only 6 priests in our Deanery by 2010. We discussed how this might affect our Parish in the future. The issues involved taking us beyond just our immediate Parish. We will return to this at our next meeting. In the meantime the members of the PPC will consider the proposals and forward any thoughts by e-mail to David Walsh.

 

 

Next meeting:  Tuesday 24th February 2004 at 7.30p.m. in the Chatterton Room

 

Closing Prayer.

 

 

 

Actionable Points From Minutes:

 

Action                                                                 Responsibility

 

Opening prayer and reflection for next meeting                          Teresa Kenefick

 

 

Copy of The Universe article to go up in Narthex                                  Fr Bill

 

 

Letter to Sr Margarite to invite her to the next meeting               Chris Sibthorp 

 

 

Small group to meet re Parish Day                                                        David to organise

 

 

To consider Future Pastoral Planning document prior

 to next meeting of PPC and forward thoughts to David             All