Pastoral Council 

Partner Parishes
 

The Pastoral Council is a consultative body for the Pastor. Through reflection, prayer, planning, motivation and support, the Pastoral Council serves the Pastor by helping identify and encourage those ministries or services that are needed for the growth of a living parish community, evaluated and implemented on a regular basis.

Thus, the Pastoral Council must carefully consider the needs of the faithful and search within the community to recommend to the Pastor ideas and means that will adequately respond to these needs. This responsibility of the Pastoral Council does not diminish the continued mission and responsibility of the parish as a whole.

Each baptized parish member remains responsible in his or her own way for the mission of the parish. In this way, the Pastoral Council is an instrument to help the Pastor and the parish better discern, clarify, and communicate its responsibilities for proclaiming the Good News.