Save the date for your next Quarterly Leadership Meeting on 9/12/09.
Parish Leaders: Join us as we welcome our new Pastor, Fr. Chuck Talley and associate, Fr. Adrian Peelo. In addition, we'll have two feature speakers: Trish Spencer will be speaking on "The Servant Leader" and Brother James will be presenting the recently approved ten year plan for the Old Mission.
Please join us at 9am at the Old Mission's Refreshment Lounge for coffee, tea and cake. Registration begins in the Lasuen Room at 9:15am. The meeting starts promptly at 9:30am.
Questions or suggestions? Contact Frank Brophy, Advisory Board Chairperson at 724-2125 or Laura Chun at chun@pacbell.net
Friday, July 3, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Faith Formation Calendars Online
Registration days and times, class calendar and more information!
Registration and Calendar in English
Registration and Calendar in Spanish
Registration and Calendar in English
Registration and Calendar in Spanish
Thursday, April 30, 2009
MSLRP Calendar Printables for Your Fridge
MSLRP Calendar Printables for Your Fridge
May: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
June: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
July: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
August: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
Check it out on the new calendar page!
May: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
June: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
July: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
August: Monthly Calendar at a glance .pdf
Check it out on the new calendar page!
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Parish Leadership Links from QLM
Thank you all for your participation in our QLM on Saturday, April 25, 2009. Here are the links mentioned in the "Parish Leadership" talk.
MSLRP Event Reminder Calendar pdf
International Stewardship Bulletin for April in English and in Spanish
April Eco-Stewardship News
Deadlines Announced for Ministry Calendars (See post below in this newspage)
MSLRP Event Reminder Calendar pdf
International Stewardship Bulletin for April in English and in Spanish
April Eco-Stewardship News
Deadlines Announced for Ministry Calendars (See post below in this newspage)
Friday, April 24, 2009
Deadlines Announced for Ministry Calendars
July 1st, 2009 at 6pm is the deadline for ministry calendars/scheduling requests to be submitted online for the June 2009 to June 2010 calendar year at mslrp.org
The events form can be found here at:
http://forms.sanluisreyparish.org/event-request.html
Ministries are requested to fill out forms for proposed:
Weekly or Monthly Meetings
Retreats
Fundraisers
Parties
Trainings
Liturgies
Celebrations
Musical Programs
Concerts
Picnics
Field Days
Deanery Meetings
Group Meetings
Rehearsals
etc.
Groups will be scheduled first on a priority basis, secondly on a first come, first served dated and time stamped using the online computer system.
Large events that do not take place at MSLRP but should be on the parish calendar so everyone will know about them should also be requested at this time.
Thank you for your help and cooperation.
Karen Willson
Stewardship/Calendar Coordinator
The events form can be found here at:
http://forms.sanluisreyparish.org/event-request.html
Ministries are requested to fill out forms for proposed:
Weekly or Monthly Meetings
Retreats
Fundraisers
Parties
Trainings
Liturgies
Celebrations
Musical Programs
Concerts
Picnics
Field Days
Deanery Meetings
Group Meetings
Rehearsals
etc.
Groups will be scheduled first on a priority basis, secondly on a first come, first served dated and time stamped using the online computer system.
Large events that do not take place at MSLRP but should be on the parish calendar so everyone will know about them should also be requested at this time.
Thank you for your help and cooperation.
Karen Willson
Stewardship/Calendar Coordinator
Summit affirms lay stake in future church
Some 1,200 participants -- the majority of them lay -- came to Orlando April 20-23 to share their experiences of leadership in the American church and to spark a national conversation on how to use pastoral imagination to create vibrant parishes.
Billed as a national ministry summit, the meeting represented the culmination of a four-year study of Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership, financed by a $2 million Lilly Endowment grant. The project was a joint venture of six national ministerial groups that comprise umbrella organizations for lay ministers, pastoral planners, deacons, priests, young adult ministers and church personnel administrators.
In many ways, the project is more an affirmation of what already exists than a discovery of new ministries in the church. The six groups collaborated in providing research on the type of leadership that has emerged during the past two to three decades in a church that has grown more than 40 percent since 1965 while its clergy corps has dropped 20 percent during that same period.
Both the research and the summit are responses to new realities in a U.S. church experiencing fewer and older priests and religious, a more educated laity, the highest number of deacons (16,000) of any single country, a growing and diverse Catholic immigrant population, an influx of foreign priests and the emergence of thousands of professionally prepared laypeople who view their call to ministry as a genuine vocation, not just a job or second career.
Precious Blood Fr. Robert Schreiter called the gathering “remarkable” and “historic,” on a par with the 1890 Congress of Black Catholics, the liturgical movement of the 1930s and 1940s and the Encuentro of Hispanic Catholics in 2000.
The summit and the eight regional consultations that preceded it are changing the structure of parish leadership and showing how the church has matured since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), said Schreiter, a theologian at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.
CNS/courtesy of Diocese of Rapid City: Bishop Blase CupichWhile many participants attributed the rise of new leadership models to the paucity of priests and sisters, Bishop Blase Cupich of Rapid City, S.D., finds that perspective limited. Cupich, the episcopal adviser to the Emerging Models project, said laypeople are answering the call to holiness that is part of their baptismal heritage. “It is a call that has to mature into a call to communio and a call to witness,” he said.
Lay ecclesial ministers are more fully integrated into the life of their parishes and dioceses and are faithful to the mission of the church precisely because “we are all coworkers in the vineyard,” said Cupich, echoing the title of the U.S. bishops’ 2005 pastoral on the development of lay ecclesial ministry. “Lay and ordained all have a stake in the future of our church.”
Patricia Lefevere: Project director Marti JewellProject director Marti Jewell credited the growth of some 31,000 lay ecclesial ministers -- working 20 or more hours per week in the church -- and the 10,000 now in training to the work of the Holy Spirit and the needs of a growing church.
Many suggestions from conference participants, who discussed needs in small groups, dealt with ongoing formation. Even priests can’t learn all they have to know to be a pastor during five years in seminary, said Fr. Richard Siepka. “They must be prepared for lifetime learning.”
Siepka, rector of Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, N.Y., welcomed the training of deacons, laymen and women at seminaries. “It makes it easier for all of us to work together,” he said.
One fully engaged woman, Sr. Florita Rodman, leads St. Helen Church in Amory, Miss. The Divine Providence Sister, who worked 40 years in the southern part of Boston, has been involved with lay ministry since the 1980s. She serves one of the more than 530 U.S. parishes that have a deacon, a sister or layperson in charge of the pastoral needs of the congregation. These leaders are active in two-thirds of American dioceses -- many in the Midwest, South and West, where lack of local priests is acute and parishes are located miles from one another.
The nun conducts the Sunday celebration in the absence of a priest, and has the assistance of two sacramental ministers. She described her ministry as “exciting, challenging and exhausting. … I find great satisfaction in working with the 80 families in the parish. I feel a part of their lives -- their joys, but also their struggles, their cancers and old age.”
Finances came up frequently around the summit’s 100-plus tables. Among audible suggestions: “Call this a real job with real benefits.” “Combine recruitment drives for lay and religious vocations.” “Get dioceses to invest more in the laity.” “Encourage parish scholarships for lay ministry training.” “Fund campus ministers at state schools.”
Jewell said the six project partners would study the recommendations and report back to participants, helping them integrate what they’ve learned here into their future ministry practices. Plans were also on line to have other church groups join the alliance of six.
Patricia Lefevere is a longtime contributor to NCR.
National Catholic Reporter June 13, 2008
Billed as a national ministry summit, the meeting represented the culmination of a four-year study of Emerging Models of Pastoral Leadership, financed by a $2 million Lilly Endowment grant. The project was a joint venture of six national ministerial groups that comprise umbrella organizations for lay ministers, pastoral planners, deacons, priests, young adult ministers and church personnel administrators.
In many ways, the project is more an affirmation of what already exists than a discovery of new ministries in the church. The six groups collaborated in providing research on the type of leadership that has emerged during the past two to three decades in a church that has grown more than 40 percent since 1965 while its clergy corps has dropped 20 percent during that same period.
Both the research and the summit are responses to new realities in a U.S. church experiencing fewer and older priests and religious, a more educated laity, the highest number of deacons (16,000) of any single country, a growing and diverse Catholic immigrant population, an influx of foreign priests and the emergence of thousands of professionally prepared laypeople who view their call to ministry as a genuine vocation, not just a job or second career.
Precious Blood Fr. Robert Schreiter called the gathering “remarkable” and “historic,” on a par with the 1890 Congress of Black Catholics, the liturgical movement of the 1930s and 1940s and the Encuentro of Hispanic Catholics in 2000.
The summit and the eight regional consultations that preceded it are changing the structure of parish leadership and showing how the church has matured since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), said Schreiter, a theologian at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.
CNS/courtesy of Diocese of Rapid City: Bishop Blase CupichWhile many participants attributed the rise of new leadership models to the paucity of priests and sisters, Bishop Blase Cupich of Rapid City, S.D., finds that perspective limited. Cupich, the episcopal adviser to the Emerging Models project, said laypeople are answering the call to holiness that is part of their baptismal heritage. “It is a call that has to mature into a call to communio and a call to witness,” he said.
Lay ecclesial ministers are more fully integrated into the life of their parishes and dioceses and are faithful to the mission of the church precisely because “we are all coworkers in the vineyard,” said Cupich, echoing the title of the U.S. bishops’ 2005 pastoral on the development of lay ecclesial ministry. “Lay and ordained all have a stake in the future of our church.”
Patricia Lefevere: Project director Marti JewellProject director Marti Jewell credited the growth of some 31,000 lay ecclesial ministers -- working 20 or more hours per week in the church -- and the 10,000 now in training to the work of the Holy Spirit and the needs of a growing church.
Many suggestions from conference participants, who discussed needs in small groups, dealt with ongoing formation. Even priests can’t learn all they have to know to be a pastor during five years in seminary, said Fr. Richard Siepka. “They must be prepared for lifetime learning.”
Siepka, rector of Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, N.Y., welcomed the training of deacons, laymen and women at seminaries. “It makes it easier for all of us to work together,” he said.
One fully engaged woman, Sr. Florita Rodman, leads St. Helen Church in Amory, Miss. The Divine Providence Sister, who worked 40 years in the southern part of Boston, has been involved with lay ministry since the 1980s. She serves one of the more than 530 U.S. parishes that have a deacon, a sister or layperson in charge of the pastoral needs of the congregation. These leaders are active in two-thirds of American dioceses -- many in the Midwest, South and West, where lack of local priests is acute and parishes are located miles from one another.
The nun conducts the Sunday celebration in the absence of a priest, and has the assistance of two sacramental ministers. She described her ministry as “exciting, challenging and exhausting. … I find great satisfaction in working with the 80 families in the parish. I feel a part of their lives -- their joys, but also their struggles, their cancers and old age.”
Finances came up frequently around the summit’s 100-plus tables. Among audible suggestions: “Call this a real job with real benefits.” “Combine recruitment drives for lay and religious vocations.” “Get dioceses to invest more in the laity.” “Encourage parish scholarships for lay ministry training.” “Fund campus ministers at state schools.”
Jewell said the six project partners would study the recommendations and report back to participants, helping them integrate what they’ve learned here into their future ministry practices. Plans were also on line to have other church groups join the alliance of six.
Patricia Lefevere is a longtime contributor to NCR.
National Catholic Reporter June 13, 2008
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