Highlights of the Vision

What missionary discipleship looks like in a pastorate

When we focus on these goals … It produces these good fruits

Core Mission Priority: Liturgy

Goal: Vibrant Liturgy

• The Good News is proclaimed and understood
• Music is inspiring and participatory
• Homilies are a source of conversion, renewal and growth
• Parishioners are more fully engaged disciples

Core Mission Priority: Welcome

Goal: Belonging

• Outsiders are prioritized
• Disenfranchised and strangers are sought out and welcomed
• All feel they belong and value community life through groups, activities and events

Core Mission Priority: Encounter

Goal: Conversion

• New people are visible in community
• Sharing of faith is common and encouraged
• An encounter with Christ has been experienced

Core Mission Priority: Accompaniment

Goal: Spiritual Growth           

• Growing number of adults active in faith formation and engaged in service
• Ongoing conversion is experienced
• The domestic church is sustained and enriched
• Young people remain engaged in the parish

Core Mission Priority: Sending

Goal: Disciple-Making

• Spiritual friendships are formed
• Priestly and religious vocations are promoted and fostered
• Families are equipped and empowered as missionary disciples
• The vulnerable, grieving and neglected receive care
• The poor are prioritized and served

Core Mission Priority: Mission Support

Goal: Mission Support

• Financial support for the mission is predictable and stable
• Support for the mission occurs at many levels
• Priests and their staff members are healthy, happy and holy
• Mission-ready facilities are safe, welcoming, attractive, accessible and right-sized