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Annual Report – Pastoral Section
Year ending December 31, 2017

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When Jesus gave the great commission to “Go, make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19), He sent his disciples out to proclaim the gospel to those they met and encountered on the way. Our mission remains the same even as our methods adapt to the signs of our time and place. The annual pastoral report invites us to reflect on the ways we are responding to the mission call, to take a measure of our stewardship and service, and to rededicate ourselves and our parish communities to Jesus’ call to build the kingdom with Him here and now.

1. PARISH STATISTICS

I. HOUSEHOLDS:

II. PARISHIONERS:

III. SACRAMENTAL CELEBRATIONS: For Secretariat of State / Central Statistics of the Church. This section requires accurate and actual numbers.

PLEASE NOTE: If copies of parish registers for baptisms, marriages and confirmation have NOT been sent to the Diocesan Centre, please send them with this form.

IV. FUNERALS:

1. PARISH LIFE AND MINISTRY

The remainder of the Annual Report has been reorganized to align with the Archdiocesan Priorities.

1. How has your parish engaged with the Archdiocesan Priorities over the past year? Click here to enter text.
2. What plans do you have to engage them in the coming year? Click here to enter text.

1. Building vital and viable parish faith communities

• What strengths have been highlighted this past year for your parish(es)? Click here to enter text.
• What are the three biggest challenges facing your parishes at the close of this last year? Click here to enter text.
• How does your parish(es) practice welcome? Click here to enter text.
• How does your parish(es) know if people feel like they belong? Click here to enter text.
• How is the Sacramental Life of the community strengthening people to live out their faith lives? Click here to enter text.
• In what ways is your parish building serving to enhance the faith life of your parish and the broader life of your community? Click here to enter text.
• How do you parishioners live out service in the parish and in the community more broadly? Click here to enter text.
• How are your resources (spiritual, financial, human, and capital) being used? Click here to enter text.
• Do you feel that your parish(es) resources are adequate, and sustainable into the future? Click here to enter text.

Estimates are appropriate for the first four lines; number of regular contributors needs to be grounded in parish collection data.

Lay Presided Services (Please include all parishes in a single response):

• Does/do your parish(es) celebrate Sunday Celebrations of the Word / Liturgy of the Hours in the absence of a priest? ☐Yes ☐No
• If so, how often? Click here to enter text.
• Do celebrations in the absence of a priest include:
• A Communion Rite? ☐Yes ☐ No
• A Reflection on the Scriptures? ☐Yes ☐ No
• Do the parish(es) celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours on weekdays?☐Yes ☐No

Sacramental Preparation:

• How has your parish prepared children for the Sacraments this year? Click here to enter text.
• What programs are currently in use? Click here to enter text.
• How many catechists were engaged in sacramental preparation/catechism this year? Click here to enter text.

Youth Ministry:

• Do you have a youth ministry / group in your parish(es)? ☐Yes ☐No
  If yes:☐ Full Time Paid☐ Part Time Paid☐ Volunteer
• How has your Youth Ministry changed over the past year?Click here to enter text.
• What is one thing your parish has done well this year to be of service to young people and their families? Click here to enter text.
• How many youth have been sent to youth workshops or youth specific events in the past year: Click here to enter text.

2. Living evangelization and discipleship

2a. by facilitating encounters with Jesus

• How has your parish intentionally worked to facilitateparishioners and/or community members encountering Jesus in meaningful and/or new ways over the past year? (This might include efforts to emphasize encounter in liturgy/sacraments; programs or formation efforts; mission, retreat, or outreach events; or small groups)? Click here to enter text.

• How would you describe the depth, quality, and/or growth of encountering Jesus in your parishioners or in people who have attended these events or been impacted by your efforts? Click here to enter text.
• How satisfied are you as pastor that people have been invested in and growing in relationship with God in your parish(es) over this past year? Click here to enter text.

2b. by equipping disciples to live as authentic witnesses

• What efforts or activities have been employed this year in marriage preparation, RCIA, and ongoing faith formation? Click here to enter text.
• What percentage of your faith community takes advantage of ongoing faith formation opportunities? Click here to enter text.
• What difference does belonging to your parish(es) make in the everyday lives of those who come? Click here to enter text.
  

2c. by forming and supporting strong lay leaders and clergy

• What formation opportunities have been offered for leaders in your parish(es) this year?
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Lay Formation and Evangelization Program

• What are the name(s), number(s) and email(s) of your parish contact person/people who collects the names of people interested in attending the revised Lay Formation and Evangelization Program offered by the Archdiocese?Click here to enter text.
• What role would you like alumni to play in your parish?Click here to enter text.
• How many of your parishioners who completed the previous Lay Ministry Formation Program are still active in supporting parish ministries? Click here to enter text.
• What roles are they playing in your parish at the present time? Click here to enter text.
• What topics would you recommend be included in the formation process for the new Lay Formation and Evangelization Program? Click here to enter text.

Clergy Formation

• How has the parish(es) invested in formation and ongoing learning for the pastor in the last year? Click here to enter text.
• Are there areas where you as a pastor would like to have additional formation/training opportunities? Click here to enter text.

3. Listening, engaging in dialogue, and seeking justice and reconciliation

Which of the following was a part of your parish(es) outreach and justice ministry this past year?
☐Sponsor a refugee family
☐Support refugee families through donations of cash or in-kind supports
☐Support Reverence for Life
☐Use the Reverence for Life prayers
☐Attended a Laudato Si workshop
☐Attended the Social Justice in Motion Conference at St. Henry’s in Melville
☐Hosted a workshop on the environment
☐Supported a local social justice activity. Please specify:Click here to enter text.
☐Hosted a prayer service for victims of Clergy Sexual Abuse.
☐Other. Please specify:Click here to enter text.

Ecumenism

• Does your parish have an ecumenical contact person? ☐Yes ☐No
• If yes, please provide their contact information: Click here to enter text.

Please indicate the ecumenical efforts of your parish over the last year:

Indigenous Ministry

• Do you have participation of First Nations / INNU or Metis in your parish? ☐Yes ☐No
• How have your parish(es) addressed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action this year? Click here to enter text.

General Questions:

• What other listening, dialogue, and justice ministries has your parish offered and/or participated in this last year? Click here to enter text.
• What approximate percentage of your parishioners have been active in listening, dialogue, and justice ministries this year? Click here to enter text.
• What do you feel motivates your parishioners to engage in these ministries? Click here to enter text.
• What do you feel disinclines parishioners to engage in these ministries? Click here to enter text.
  

4. Growing in faithful and responsible stewardship

• To what extent do you feel that parishioners in your community have connected their time, talent, and treasure to their relationship with God? Click here to enter text.
• What stewardship education has been offered in your parish this year? Click here to enter text.
• What financial, human, and/or capital resource planning has happened in your parish(es) this year? Click here to enter text.
• What are the 3 biggest stewardship challenges facing your parish(es) at the close of the year?
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Bishop’s Annual Appeal

• Did your parish show the Appeal DVD? ☐Yes ☐ No
• If not, why?Click here to enter text.
• If yes, what impact did the video have?Click here to enter text.
• Did you or a parish representative attend the kick-off event? ☐Yes ☐ No
• If “No”, why not? Click here to enter text.
• If yes, was it a help to your campaign? Click here to enter text.
• Does your parish have Annual Appeal envelopes in your set of collection envelopes? ☐Yes ☐No
• If “Yes”, is it monthly? ☐ Other?☐Click here to enter text.
• Please help us you serve you better and provide any feedback regarding the Annual Appeal (kickoff letters, brochures, video, Annual Appeal manual, parish kits, goal calculation, rebates, Transmittal form, etc.). We will consider all feedback as we make plans for next year: Click here to enter text.

Conclusion:

As part of integrating the ministries offered from the Pastoral Centre with the Archdiocesan Priorities, please provide feedback on the following questions:

• Would you find tools for discerning and evaluating parish vitality and viability helpful? Click here to enter text.
• What should the Archdiocese do to support sacramental preparation the parishes?
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• What role do you see Archdiocesan staff playing in the preparation of formation of sacramental leaders in parishes?Click here to enter text.
• How can the Archdiocesanstaff help you begin/strengthen youth ministry in your parish? Please be specific.Click here to enter text.
• What role do you see the Archdiocesan team playing in supporting ongoing adult faith formation?Click here to enter text.

Archbishop Don is encouraging parishes to consider how they can participate in a few key initiatives. Please indicate your interest in the following: