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Making All Things New

Making All Things New. Our Lady of Good Counsel Staten Island, NY. Cardinal Dolan – Oct. 3 Pastoral letter on Making All Things New.

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Making All Things New

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  1. Making All Things New Our Lady of Good Counsel Staten Island, NY

  2. Cardinal Dolan – Oct. 3 Pastoral letter on Making All Things New • “We no longer need 368 parishes in their current locations! Due to demographic changes, we may need to create new parishes, or expand some, to serve the migration of parishioners outside of the city, while closing or merging others.”

  3. Is OLGC one of the parishes that will close or merge? We don’t know!

  4. What is the #1goal of Making All Things New? To enhance the vibrancy of parish life throughout the Archdiocese of New York.

  5. What kind of Models of Parish Communities are possible in the future? • Collaborative, • Linked or • Consolidated

  6. Collaborative Parishes • Parishes have formal cooperative relationships with other parishes for the sake of jointly promoting the Gospel and the New Evangelization.... • They jointly plan and implement adult formation programs, and other ministries. • Still separate parishes with different pastors, sharing some staff, ministry and resources.

  7. Linked Parishes • Linked Parishes are formed when two or more parishes share a pastor. • The parishes remain distinct canonical and corporate entities. • The parishes are encouraged to work toward combining parish council meetings and to establishing common committees where possible. • Linked Parishes do many things cooperatively, such as programs and in-services.

  8. Consolidated Parishes • Two or more parishes come together to form a new parish community under one pastor. • When parishes are consolidated, the newly formed parish will have a new name and one worship site. • Net assets and liabilities of the merging parishes go to the newly formed parish. • Again, the aim of consolidation is to bring together two or more communities of faith so as to create more vibrant, effective, and efficient parishes.

  9. Timeline • October – OLGC Town Hall meetings & survey to collect parishioners’ input. • December 1 – Complete and submit resulting analysis to MATN Archdiocesan Advisory Group. • December 3 – begin to prepare local parish cluster teams for their work of Cluster Evaluation and Suggestions. • March 1, 2014 –Send Cluster Suggestions to the Archdiocesan Advisory Group. • March 31, 2014 - Advisory Group completes Preliminary Recommendations.

  10. Timeline continued • June 1, 2014 – Complete the Conversation and Response Phase of the project. • June 30, 2014 - Archdiocesan Advisory Group completes Final Recommendations. • September 2014 - Cardinal Dolan announces Decisions. • 2015 -Implementation begins.

  11. We need your input! Town Hall Meetings: • Wednesday, October 16th at 7:30 PM in English • Saturday, October 19th at 3:30 PM in English • Sunday, October 27 at 1:45 PM in Spanish • Wednesday, October 30th at 1:00 PM in English

  12. We need your input! Survey (two ways to do it): • 2 ½ page paper survey (10 minutes?) • Online survey on MATN page on OLGCSI.org OLGCSI.org has links to lots of info about Making All Things New.

  13. Thank you for your attention and your prayers Please pray to the Holy Spirit for: • The Archdiocese of New York and Cardinal Dolan • The Making All Things New program • The Catholic Churches of Staten Island • Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish community

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