Preliminary Parish Pastoral Council Minutes
February 13, 2006

Prior to our meeting, the following committees emailed their reports to me.  I collected the reports and distributed them to everyone on council one week prior to our meeting.   

Children's Religious Education-submitted by Joan Parker
Social Action Committee-submitted by Ed Walls 
Youth Ministry- submitted by Pat Bentley
Building & Grounds Report-submitted by Ray Ring
Publicity & Community Events-submitted Carol Johnson
Parish Outreach Committee -submitted by Frank Blee 
Liturgical Committee-submitted by Fran Fietkiewicz

These reports can also be viewed at (click here)

The following committees did not submit a report for this month:

Vocations Committee-submitted by Bill & Connie Peters
Family Life- Submitted by Ted & Joann Malecki

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Pastoral Parish Council

MINUTES
February 13, 2006

The Meeting:

·        Meeting called to order at 7:00pm

·        Opening prayer Fr. Ferrara and Frank Blee

·        Attending:  Matt Macready , Kevin Walls , Bob Senese , Ray Ring, , Carol Johnson, Frank Blee , , Joann Malecki, Ed Walls, , Pat Bentley, , Rev. Mr. Joe Becker , & Fr. Joseph Ferrara

·        Also attending were:  Margaret Quigley, Herb Kracker, Stash Marczak, Mary Ferigami, Jim Davis, Laura Eger , & Bernie Garbowski

·        Absent:  Joan Parker , Addie Blee, Rev. Mr. Bill Peters, & Connie Peters.  Fr. Bob excused himself from the meeting

·        No correspondence was reported

Last Month’s Minutes:

            The minutes were not discussed

Committee/Group Reports:

Prior to our meeting, the following reports were submitted and distributed to council.  As always they can be viewed at our website www.stelizabethannseton.com

Liturgical Committee
Youth Ministry
Building & Grounds Report
Publicity & Community Events Committee
Parish Outreach Committee
Children’s Religious Education
Social Action Committee

The following committees did not submit a report for this month:

Family Life
Vocations Committee

 Discussion of Committee/Group Reports:

Family Life was briefly discussed.  Chris Lourge and his wife expressed interest in the following programs: Play groups, Natural Family Planning, and Pre Cana.  Unfortunately there was not enough time to discuss how we could take advantage of their interest. 

Old Business: 

No old business was discussed

New Business: 

No new business was discussed

Open Forum

Instead of a regularly formatted Parish Council meeting, Fr. Joseph Ferarra was invited down from the diocese.  His purpose was to gather facts about St. Elizabeth Ann Seton to help the diocese choose our next pastor.  His questions were based on 3 topics:

1. What are the strengths of our parish?
2. What are the concerns of our parish?
3. What would we like our new pastor to know about our parish?

Our discussions lasted approximately 90 minutes.  During that time, Fr. Ferarra stated that everyday more and more priests are putting in for the position of our pastor; and right now, 2 in particular are leading the pack.  Regarding the feedback that we gave him about the parish, he stated that really none of it was new news to him.  Most of the concerns that we discussed were already known.  At one point, he even joked that our standards were so high for the next pastor that maybe we were looking for Jesus to replace Fr. Bob

Summary of topics discussed:

Those Pending: 

Those Closed:  nothing noted

Those Tabled:  nothing noted

 Next meeting

Monday  March 13
Time 7:00 pm
I will lead us in prayer

Respectfully submitted by:
Bob Senese ,
Secretary