Due to the pandemic, it has been almost a year & a half since I have met with either the Parish Council or the Finance Council. These are advisory groups to the Pastor who help set the direction of the parish in both temporal and spiritual ways, working with the Pastor to form a vision for the financial and spiritual health of the parish community. Neither Council makes decisions regarding the parish but provide valuable insight to the Pastor in his ministry to the people. I am deeply grateful for those who have been part of these councils since I have been here at St. Leo’s. They have brought your questions to my attention and have allowed me to share with them my vision and plans for our parish community. We normally take the summer off from our meetings so I thought this would be a good time to begin preparing for new council members which would begin to meet in the fall. Though the Diocese recommends that we have a regular turn-over of council members (i.e., term limits), I realize that we have had many of the same members serving on these councils for several years. So I thought this would be a good opportunity to release our present council members from this responsibility and to ask other parishioners to be members of these councils. I am currently making a list of people whom I would like to ask to be a member of either the Finance or Parish Council. So if I ask you to consider doing this, you’ll have some background as to why I am asking. The time commitment is very manageable and the only qualification is a desire to be of service to the parish in this way. The Finance Council meets quarterly, about 4 times a year. The Parish Council meets monthly, except during the summer months. No other time commitment is asked of you, and you will not be asked to engage in any other ministry just because you are a member of either council. We keep the meetings to no more than one hour long. We will limit the number of years that someone would be a part of either council (e.g. to 2 or 3 years) and of course if you can’t make a particular meeting or need to be removed from council for some reason, that is very acceptable. The Principal, along with Deacon Pat & Joan Berigan are part of the Parish Council “ex officio” or by virtue of their office or ministry at the parish so they are automatically members of the Parish Council and will at times attend Finance Council meetings as well. So again, my sincere thanks to all those who have served on either council and thank you in advance to those who will willingly serve on these councils beginning in the fall.
We have had several people express interest in the position of being Coordinator of our Parish Center so we will once again be opening this space up for rentals in the very near future. For now, please call the rectory office if you are interested in using this space for a one time occasion or for regular gatherings. Priority is always given to the parish’s use of this space. We will provide more information in the near future regarding rentals and we are glad we can offer this location for meetings, family celebrations, etc.
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