From the Desk of Father Pat...
Cluster Council:
You may have heard that phrase recently; our parish councilors have been getting information about forming a Cluster Council instead of three parish councils that currently exist. They were presented with an aggressive timeline at our last monthly meeting to get this cluster council in place by next July 1, 2012.
The cluster council would replace our current parish councils with membership from our three parishes, the parish trustees and your priest ‘in-solidum’ team. At our next meeting in January they will be presented with a possible constitution and by-laws for the new cluster council.
I see this as a way of being more efficient for the visioning and planning work of the councils, and helping open the way to greater understanding and communication among the people of our three parishes, and helping to break down the barriers that continue to exist among our parishes.
We are also encouraging similar committees of the three parishes to meet at the same time, at the same place for efficiency for the sake of your priests, but more importantly to begin to talk together about how we move forward as a cluster and work better together.
The three-year vision and plan the Parish Councils approved last June calls for this closer cooperation of our parishes.
Fr. Pat
Mass Attendance for Last Weekend
December 10 & 11, 2011
St. Peter St. Mary Immaculate Conception
4:00 pm 410 9:00 am 311 5:00 pm 197
10:30 am 415 11:00 am 238 8:30 am 264