Recap & Orientation for SHC Parish Recollection 10th – 12th July 2014 SHC Parish Centre

Dr. Damian Lee 10/7/14

OVERVIEW

• Introduction & background.• The birth 3 Parish Pastoral Priority (PPP).• PDW 08 recommendations, resolutions &

conclusion (RRC) to address 3 PPP.• Status of implementing RRC for 3 PPP.• Concerns, Problems & Challenges involved.• What is Parish recollection 2014? -

Expectations from Parish & of delegates.• The Way forward.

Introduction & Background

• Y2K – New Pastoral milestone.• Prime mover - Rector in consultation

with SHC Parish Council took a Strategic Giant leap forward to transform the Parish Council (PC) into Parish Pastoral Council (PPC).

• 3 years after diocesan organizational Pastoral Plan (DOPP) in 1997.

• 17 years after Vatican II code of Canon Law 536(1983)mandated PPC.

Parish PastoralBuilding Process

•2000 to 2005 •SHC PPC operationalized the

process of finding & defining Pastoral care & Scope.

• Initiating & Coordinating the Building Process of DOPP in the Parish.

Vehicle for Pastoral transformation

• Spiritual discernment was adopted as the key vehicle and process to seek and listen to God’s will and way in moving into Pastoral transformation.

Pastoral Planning Breakthrough-PDW06 • Strategic Parish Pastoral Planning.

• Involving 130 Parish key group leaders.

• Zeroing in and Focusing on:• (1)Parish Pastoral Priorities (PPP) • (2)Charting out SHC Parish Pastoral

Direction in line, in spirit, in form and in substance of DOPP.

2006 PDW

Findings & resolutions

• Consensually identified & derived top 3 Parish Pastoral Priorities (PPP).

• (1) Family issues• (2) Faith Formation.• (3) Reaching out to Parishioners.

PPC TASKS

• Formed a competent Parish Pastoral survey committee to conduct the 1st ever Parish Pastoral survey to get feedback on ‘where the Parish is in the context of 3 PPP’

• Survey feedback – 21st -22nd April 07.• 1st Pastoral initiative to address PPP • Parish Family Visit - 08 to 10/ 2007.

PFV feedback

• 1518 families were visited.• Requests for more caring pastoral

activities for Parish.• Venue for Counseling/ Counselors. • Some families request for in-depth

visit to help address their problems.

PDW 2008 RRC

• (1) Faith Formation• Redefined Parish Faith Formation.• Educating in the Faith or Catholic faith formation

in discipleship and in witness is not a set of rules and instructions but “rather it means helping one another, to enter into a living relationship with Christ and with the Father.”

• (Pope Benedict XVI, Ecclesial Congress, Rome, June, 2007)

PDW 2008 RRC

• A Pastoral body comprising the rector, religious & appropriate lay leaders who have a passion for faith formation to study and come out with recommendations on the holistic spiritual faith formation needs of the parish.

• (FROM CRADLE TO HEAVEN).

PDW 2008 RRC• (2) Family issues• Urgent need to bring awareness &

effects of the impending “TIDAL WAVE” of THE CULTURE OF DEATH to the church & the failure of the church to respond effectively.

• Not doing enough to address the issues affecting us : dadah, pornography and all the other components of the culture of death

PDW 2008 RRC

• (3) Reaching out to P.• Set up the PFPN as a network of

parishioners within the parish. • Network proposed to consist of

PFPN core group;Zones;Taman/ housing estates;ClustersFamilies

PDW 2008 RRC

Proposed Scope Of PFPN1. To cater to the immediate social welfare

needs of the Parish families.• Death in the family ( funeral arrangement, prayers,

financial assistance etc)• Sickness – sending to hospital, hospital visits etc• Tragedies – fire, accident, flood etc

2. As 2 way communication line for dissemination of information

• Information on seminars being organized in church, formation program, etc

• Updating family data, problem within the families, social problems etc.

RESOLUTION

• (2)a. We (the 160 PDW 08 delegates) will be Committed to support and be the prime agents of implementation/ change.

• (2)b. We will make consistent and diligent efforts to impart this to our brothers and sisters in our respective groups / communities.

• (3)c. Let us not just ‘feel good’ up here but begin to respond to the promptings & leadings of the Holy Spirit .

PPC TASKS• 3 Advisory Committees formed in

June 08 under Main Steering Committee to do in depth study how to address 3 PPP effectively.

• Key recommendations from these 3 advisory committees were approved for implementation by Parish priest/PPC at the SHC PPC meeting held on 30th October 2008.

Status of Implementation for Catholic Faith Formation• (1) Parish Pastoral Body formed to

streamline, study & review Parish Catholic faith formation process, structure & contents.

• (2) Orientation for ALL SHCP Catholic Faith Formatters on Resolutions & Conclusion of PDW 08 on 09/03/09.

Status of implementation for

Faith Formation • (3) RCIA seminar for CF facilitators

conducted by American Msgr. Thomas Ivory-19 -21/01/09.

• (4) Dialogue between ALL parish Catholic Faith facilitators & the Rector PPC / Cate. committee on 23/06/09.

• (5) Recollection for All Parish Catholic Faith formatters on 12/09/09.

Status of Implementation for Family Issues

• (1) Parish Youth Pastoral Coordinator (PYPC) was employed on 18/05/09.

• (2) Counseling centre/ Room was set up by Diocesan Commission on Family life at G1 SHP centre on 01/06/09.

• (3) 1st session on Family issues seminar in English ‘ Family – God’s Masterpiece’ on 06/06/09.

Status of Implementation for Family Issues

• 31/08/09- 1st Bm & 2nd Eng. seminar, ‘Family – God’s Masterpiece’ held simultaneously drawing combined audience of 600 parishioners.

• 13/09/09-1st ever parish level seminar by PPC/ Chinese speaking community on ‘Family – God’s Masterpiece.• 200 Chinese speaking crowd of children, teenagers &parents.

Status of Implementation for PFPN • (1) Parish Family Pastoral Network (PFPN)

launched on 29/11/08 with 43 Zones, 234 coordinators in 210 tamans within the Parish boundary.

• (2) Caroling 08 very well handled by PFPN – zero receipts unreturned.

• (3) 5/02/09- PFPN Core Team formed. • (4) 25/03/09-Dialogue with SJBF with

appointment Jessie Y as PBC.

Status of PFPNimplementation

• (5) Lent (02 – 04/ 09)• Leaflets on Parish Lenten Events,

Lenten message from Archbishop & SHCP Easter liturgical services.

• Teenage & youth Easter program – Lent Unplugged on 03/04/09.

• Children’s Easter party on 26/04/09.

Status of Implementation for PFPN

• (6) 25/4/09- Rosary Seminar to prepare for Parish Block Rosary in October.

• (7) 7/5/09-PFPN Coordinator employed.• (8) 15/5/09- Reorientation, formation &

briefing for SHC Parish staff /workers.• (9) PFPN accepted the assignment from

PPC to initiate celebration of the Parish feast of Sacred Heart of Jesus in June 2009.

Status of PFPNImplementation

• Leaflet with Rector’s message on why we celebrate our Parish feast day & events for the whole month of June for this feast.

• Gotong Royong, Devotion to Sacred Heart in Eng. Bm and Chinese, Closing Feast day Eucharist, Family Day on 21/06/09 and Blood donation on 28/06/09 – 122 pints record.

• (10) Update Parish Census 07/08/09 - 30/09/09.

• (11) Refining Parish boundaries with SS, SM & SC-38 zones 2328 families.

• (12) Parish Block Rosary – 1st ever Parish level house to house block Rosary for SHC Parish for October 09.

Weeklong Parish feast 3rd – 9th 2013

• Launching of SHCP official website:• www.sacredheartcathedralkk.org

Feedback from SHCP Website 14/5 – 13/6/14

• 11,600 visitors – 40% new 60% revisit• 58% - Malaysia, follow by Indonesia, US,

SG, Philippines, India, UK, AU, NZ, Nigeria, Russia.

• Most popular page - Pastoral Calendar, church bulletin follow by Pastoral Calendar, Directory, Schedules – Sacraments, Sub-parish CMI -

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Challenges &Opportunities

• (1) Invariably Parish groups’ members are committed & content to do whatever task ask of them by their group but not so for the Parish…...

• Unable to see ‘bigger parish picture’. • Seeing only the Micro leaving the

Macro perspective of the Parish.

Challenges & Opportunities

• Awareness & importance on 3 PPP.• (2) Lack of Integration, Unity & Cooperation within, between & among some Parish groups/ Parish.• These Groups work in divergence rather than convergence.• Leading to a ‘burnt out’ Parish.• Consequence - rebuilding from scratch.

Challenges & Opportunities

• (3) Resistance to Pastoral change.• Inconsistent commitment to follow

through Pastoral initiatives to address 3 PPP among & between Parish 4 language sectors.

Challenges & Opportunities

• “ Parish Groups/ministries leaders & members after being trained in their respective group are suppose to grow up & come up to serve at the Parish level”

• Moving from Micro to Macro level of leadership.

Challenges & Opportunities• (1) Timing is right to come together

to discern because opportunities & providential moments once gone, will never come back.

• Prejudice & Distrust cannot and will not build a Parish. They can only tear us apart.

• (2) Cash in on our Parish Diversity. • Use it as a forte to build and grow

the Parish rather than a crack line around which our Parish fractures.

What is Parish recollection 2014?

• (1) A spiritual compass.• SHC Parish Pastoral Planning /Retreat.• key Parish leaders gathered together

as a Parish Family to seriously : • discern, pray, reflect, review how best

to shape & chart out a more refined, relevant, renewed, Parish-owned roadmap and to embrace this to address 3 PPP in line with DOPP.

What is Parish recollection 2014?

• (2) key parish leaders going through the process of owning & becoming Parish prime agents of change/ implementation this blueprint on how best to address the 3 PPP.

PR 2014MAXIM

• A due process for Parish Leaders:• To discern on owning, embracing &

living up & out the role of Servant hood & journeying together as Church united to address the 3 PPP moving from :

• “ Oneness in groups” to “ Oneness in Heart & Spirit for the Parish Family”.

Parish & delegates’expectations

• Act by praying to get involved.• Paying attention & listen to God’s voice & will.• The art of choosing well.• Sorting out ‘Weeds among the Wheat’.

Expectations

• Active participation & reporting.• Feedback/ contributions from all

delegates.• Summary & Compilation on KEY

points gathered to address 3 PPP.• A refined & updated Pastoral

Direction & Roadmap on how best to address 3 PPP & embrace it with a Parish Mission Statement.

Expectations

• Pass resolutions for ALL delegates on:• 1) To own & embrace this renewed

Parish Pastoral Direction & Roadmap by all 4 Parish languages sectors.

• (2) All Parish leaders to commit to inform, share & disseminate to all the respective groups’ members & 20,000 Parishioners this renewed direction & support all pastoral measures to be taken on how best to address 3 PPP.

Calling for Leadership

• (1) Exercise Leadership with humility Compassion, Commitment & Love.

• (2) Pray for Holy Spirit to docile in our mission to practice servant hood & journey together with the 6 Cs:

• Cooperate; Collaborate; • Complement; Converge;• Communicate; Create Unity &

integrate as Church & Parish.

Challenging Way Forward

• Prayer is essential.• SHC/CMI Parish intercessory

Prayer group to pray for success of Parish recollection as well as all delegates personal prayers.

The PGCG

• Until & Unless 4 Parish language Communities could come to terms & own the 3 PPP, the task of coming together to commit & embrace to work as prime Change agents to address PPP, SHC Parish cannot &will not move forward to grow pastorally to a higher level as the worthy and mature mother Parish of KK Archdiocese.

See your faith realize

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what

you believe. Saint Augustine

• P .ray • U .ntil   • S .omething • H . appens