Parish & Finance Councils

Your Parish Council

• Prayerful.  The council devotes time to reflective prayer at each meeting and makes provision at least once a year to have some special time or meetings spent together solely in prayer, reflection and spiritual sharing.
• Pastoral.  The council is pastoral in the sense that its purpose is to assist in the development of an overall mission plan for the parish in order to make Christ evermore present to the parishioners and to the wider community.
• Representative.  The council members represent the entire parish community and exercise their responsibility with a concern that includes all parishioners.
• Discerning.  Through a prayerful consensus process, the council merges the diverse experiences, skills and gifts of the council members, and having listened to the parishioner’s needs and ideas, discerns recommendations concerning the direction and priorities of the parish.
• Responsive.  The council has a responsibility to be sensitive to and cognizant of justice and peace issues at the local, national, and international level.
• Enabling.  In the spirit of God’s love, the members of the PPC strive to recognize and support each other’s gifts and seek ways in which each parishioner’s gifts may surface, grow and flourish for the good of the Church.

Read more:  GUIDELINES FOR PARISH PASTORAL COUNCILS (Archdiocese of Boston)