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Recap & Orientation for SHC Parish Recollection 10 th – 12 th July 2014 SHC Parish Centre. Dr. Damian Lee 10/7/14. OVERVIEW. Introduction & background. The birth 3 Parish Pastoral Priority (PPP).
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Recap & Orientation for SHC Parish Recollection 10th – 12th July 2014 SHC Parish Centre Dr. Damian Lee 10/7/14
OVERVIEW • Introduction & background. • The birth 3 Parish Pastoral Priority (PPP). • PDW 08 recommendations, resolutions & conclusion (RRC) to address 3 PPP. • Status of implementing RRC for 3 PPP. • Concerns, Problems & Challenges involved. • What is Parish recollection 2014? - Expectations from Parish & of delegates. • The Way forward.
Introduction & Background • Y2K – New Pastoral milestone. • Prime mover - Rector in consultation with SHC Parish Council took a Strategic Giant leap forward to transform the Parish Council (PC) into Parish Pastoral Council (PPC). • 3 years after diocesan organizational Pastoral Plan (DOPP) in 1997. • 17 years after Vatican II code of Canon Law 536(1983)mandated PPC.
Parish PastoralBuilding Process • 2000 to 2005 • SHC PPC operationalized the process of finding & defining Pastoral care & Scope. • Initiating & Coordinating the Building Process of DOPP in the Parish.
Vehiclefor Pastoral transformation • Spiritual discernment was adopted as the key vehicle and process to seek and listen to God’s will and way in moving into Pastoral transformation.
Pastoral Planning Breakthrough-PDW06 • Strategic Parish Pastoral Planning. • Involving 130 Parish key group leaders. • Zeroing in and Focusing on: • (1)Parish Pastoral Priorities (PPP) • (2)Charting out SHC Parish Pastoral Direction in line, in spirit, in form and in substance of DOPP.
2006 PDW Findings & resolutions • Consensually identified & derived top 3 Parish Pastoral Priorities (PPP). • (1) Family issues • (2) Faith Formation. • (3) Reaching out to Parishioners.
PPC TASKS • Formed a competent Parish Pastoral survey committee to conduct the 1st ever Parish Pastoral survey to get feedback on ‘where the Parish is in the context of 3 PPP’ • Survey feedback – 21st -22nd April 07. • 1st Pastoral initiative to address PPP • Parish Family Visit - 08 to 10/ 2007.
PFV feedback • 1518 families were visited. • Requests for more caring pastoral activities for Parish. • Venue for Counseling/ Counselors. • Some families request for in-depth visit to help address their problems.
PDW 2008 RRC • (1) Faith Formation • Redefined Parish Faith Formation. • Educating in the Faith or Catholic faith formation in discipleship and in witness is not a set of rules and instructions but “rather it means helping one another, to enter into a living relationship with Christ and with the Father.” • (Pope Benedict XVI, Ecclesial Congress, Rome, June, 2007)
PDW 2008 RRC • A Pastoral body comprising the rector, religious & appropriate lay leaders who have a passion for faith formation to study and come out with recommendations on the holistic spiritual faith formation needs of the parish. • (FROM CRADLE TO HEAVEN).
PDW 2008 RRC • (2) Family issues • Urgent need to bring awareness & effects of the impending “TIDAL WAVE” of THE CULTURE OF DEATH to the church & the failure of the church to respond effectively. • Not doing enough to address the issues affecting us : dadah, pornography and all the other components of the culture of death
PDW 2008 RRC • (3) Reaching out to P. • Set up the PFPN as a network of parishioners within the parish. • Network proposed to consist of • PFPN core group; • Zones; • Taman/ housing estates; • Clusters • Families
PDW 2008 RRC Proposed Scope Of PFPN • To cater to the immediate social welfare needs of the Parish families. • Death in the family ( funeral arrangement, prayers, financial assistance etc) • Sickness – sending to hospital, hospital visits etc • Tragedies – fire, accident, flood etc • As 2 way communication line for dissemination of information • Information on seminars being organized in church, formation program, etc • Updating family data, problem within the families, social problems etc.
RESOLUTION • (2)a. We (the 160 PDW 08 delegates) will be Committed to support and be the prime agents of implementation/ change. • (2)b. We will make consistent and diligent efforts to impart this to our brothers and sisters in our respective groups / communities. • (3)c. Let us not just ‘feel good’ up here but begin to respond to the promptings & leadings of the Holy Spirit .
PPC TASKS • 3 Advisory Committees formed in June 08 under Main Steering Committee to do in depth study how to address 3 PPP effectively. • Key recommendations from these 3 advisory committees were approved for implementation by Parish priest/PPC at the SHC PPC meeting held on 30th October 2008.
Status of Implementation for Catholic Faith Formation • (1) Parish Pastoral Body formed to streamline, study & review Parish Catholic faith formation process, structure & contents. • (2) Orientation for ALL SHCP Catholic Faith Formatters on Resolutions & Conclusion of PDW 08 on 09/03/09.
Status of implementation for Faith Formation • (3) RCIA seminar for CF facilitators conducted by American Msgr. Thomas Ivory-19 -21/01/09. • (4) Dialogue between ALL parish Catholic Faith facilitators & the Rector PPC / Cate. committee on 23/06/09. • (5) Recollection for All Parish Catholic Faith formatters on 12/09/09.
Status of Implementation for Family Issues • (1) Parish Youth Pastoral Coordinator (PYPC) was employed on 18/05/09. • (2) Counseling centre/ Room was set up by Diocesan Commission on Family life at G1 SHP centre on 01/06/09. • (3) 1st session on Family issues seminar in English ‘ Family – God’s Masterpiece’ on 06/06/09.
Status of Implementation for Family Issues • 31/08/09- 1st Bm & 2nd Eng. seminar, ‘Family – God’s Masterpiece’ held simultaneously drawing combined audience of 600 parishioners. • 13/09/09-1st ever parish level seminar by PPC/ Chinese speaking community on ‘Family – God’s Masterpiece. • 200 Chinese speaking crowd of children, teenagers &parents.
Status of Implementation for PFPN • (1) Parish Family Pastoral Network (PFPN) launched on 29/11/08 with 43 Zones, 234 coordinators in 210 tamans within the Parish boundary. • (2) Caroling 08 very well handled by PFPN – zero receipts unreturned. • (3) 5/02/09- PFPN Core Team formed. • (4) 25/03/09-Dialogue with SJBF with appointment Jessie Y as PBC.
Status of PFPNimplementation • (5) Lent (02 – 04/ 09) • Leaflets on Parish Lenten Events, Lenten message from Archbishop & SHCP Easter liturgical services. • Teenage & youth Easter program – Lent Unplugged on 03/04/09. • Children’s Easter party on 26/04/09.
Status of Implementation for PFPN • (6) 25/4/09- Rosary Seminar to prepare for Parish Block Rosary in October. • (7) 7/5/09-PFPN Coordinator employed. • (8) 15/5/09- Reorientation, formation & briefing for SHC Parish staff /workers. • (9) PFPN accepted the assignment from PPC to initiate celebration of the Parish feast of Sacred Heart of Jesus in June 2009.
Status of PFPNImplementation • Leaflet with Rector’s message on why we celebrate our Parish feast day & events for the whole month of June for this feast. • Gotong Royong, Devotion to Sacred Heart in Eng. Bm and Chinese, Closing Feast day Eucharist, Family Day on 21/06/09 and Blood donation on 28/06/09 – 122 pints record.
(10) Update Parish Census 07/08/09 - 30/09/09. • (11) Refining Parish boundaries with SS, SM & SC-38 zones 2328 families. • (12) Parish Block Rosary – 1st ever Parish level house to house block Rosary for SHC Parish for October 09.
Weeklong Parish feast 3rd – 9th 2013 • Launching of SHCP official website: • www.sacredheartcathedralkk.org
Feedback from SHCP Website 14/5 – 13/6/14 • 11,600 visitors – 40% new 60% revisit • 58% - Malaysia, follow by Indonesia, US, SG, Philippines, India, UK, AU, NZ, Nigeria, Russia. • Most popular page - Pastoral Calendar, church bulletin follow by Pastoral Calendar, Directory, Schedules – Sacraments, Sub-parish CMI -
Challenges &Opportunities • (1) Invariably Parish groups’ members are committed & content to do whatever task ask of them by their group but not so for the Parish…... • Unable to see ‘bigger parish picture’. • Seeing only the Micro leaving the Macro perspective of the Parish.
Challenges & Opportunities • Awareness & importance on 3 PPP. • (2) Lack of Integration, Unity & Cooperation within, between & among some Parish groups/ Parish. • These Groups work in divergence rather than convergence. • Leading to a ‘burnt out’ Parish. • Consequence - rebuilding from scratch.
Challenges & Opportunities • (3) Resistance to Pastoral change. • Inconsistent commitment to follow through Pastoral initiatives to address 3 PPP among & between Parish 4 language sectors.
Challenges & Opportunities • “ Parish Groups/ministries leaders & members after being trained in their respective group are suppose to grow up & come up to serve at the Parish level” • Moving from Micro to Macro level of leadership.
Challenges & Opportunities • (1) Timing is right to come together to discern because opportunities & providential moments once gone, will never come back. • Prejudice & Distrustcannotand will not build a Parish. They can onlytear us apart. • (2) Cash in on our Parish Diversity. • Use it as a forte to build and grow the Parish rather than a crack line around which our Parish fractures.
What is Parish recollection 2014? • (1) A spiritual compass. • SHC Parish Pastoral Planning /Retreat. • key Parish leaders gathered together as a Parish Family to seriously : • discern, pray, reflect, review how best to shape & chart out a more refined, relevant, renewed, Parish-owned roadmap and to embrace this to address 3 PPP in line with DOPP.
What is Parish recollection 2014? • (2) key parish leaders going through the process of owning & becoming Parish prime agents of change/ implementation this blueprint on how best to address the 3 PPP.
PR 2014MAXIM • A due process for Parish Leaders: • To discern on owning, embracing & living up & out the role of Servant hood & journeying together as Church united to address the 3 PPP moving from : • “ Oneness in groups” to “ Oneness in Heart & Spirit for the Parish Family”.
Parish & delegates’expectations • Act by praying to get involved. • Paying attention & listen to God’s voice & will. • The art of choosing well. • Sorting out ‘Weeds among the Wheat’.
Expectations • Activeparticipation & reporting. • Feedback/ contributions from all delegates. • Summary & Compilation on KEYpoints gathered to address 3 PPP. • A refined & updated Pastoral Direction & Roadmap on how best to address 3 PPP & embrace it with a Parish Mission Statement.
Expectations • Pass resolutions for ALL delegates on: • 1) To own & embrace this renewed Parish Pastoral Direction & Roadmap by all 4 Parish languages sectors. • (2) All Parish leaders to commit to inform, share & disseminate to all the respective groups’ members & 20,000 Parishioners this renewed direction & support all pastoral measures to be taken on how best to address 3 PPP.
Calling for Leadership • (1) Exercise Leadership with humility Compassion, Commitment & Love. • (2) Pray for Holy Spirit to docile in our mission to practice servant hood & journey together with the 6 Cs: • Cooperate; Collaborate; • Complement; Converge; • Communicate; Create Unity & integrate as Church & Parish.
Challenging Way Forward • Prayer is essential. • SHC/CMI Parish intercessory Prayer group to pray for success of Parish recollection as well as all delegates personal prayers.
The PGCG • Until & Unless 4 Parish language Communities could come to terms & own the 3 PPP, the task of coming together to commit & embrace to work as prime Change agents to address PPP, SHC Parish cannot &will not move forward to grow pastorally to a higher level as the worthy and mature mother Parish of KK Archdiocese.
See your faith realize • Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine • P .ray • U .ntil • S .omething • H . appens
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