DEANERY PASTORAL COUNCIL
DEANERY PASTORAL COUNCIL
MINUTES OF MEETING HELD AUGUST 18, 2007 in Murgon
PRESENT: Gay Gordon, Hope Koster, Kim Koster, Fr John Khoai, Sr Eunice,
(all from Gayndah) Pat Deeley, Julie Lynch , Fr Joseph-Hien Vo(Hervey Bay)
Berry Doak, Tom Bushell (Gympie) Mary Woods (Kingaroy), Elaine Madill
(Murgon) ; Fr Dan Redhead
Apologies: Fr Pat Cassidy (Gympie), Liam Dougherty(Gayndah), Paul
Veivers(Kingaroy),Fr Emmanuel, Helen Bonanno (Childers), Teresa Hodson
(Murgon), David Hogan (Hervey Bay), Fr Pat Dowd, Sr Rose (Maryborough)
MINUTES: Read and accepted
BUSINESS ARISING FROM MINUTES: We were informed that Margaret Todd has left
Centacare South Burnett, and was no longer living in Kingaroy.
UNUSED FUNDS
Each parish has received a statement of its spending of deanery funds to
June 07. Mary Kirkpatrick and Julie hope the new presentation will make
things clearer for each parish. There is a total of $4 800 to be spent by
each parish in four categories: Youth, Mission, Training for ministry, and
Adult Faith. It has been made very clear by the Archdiocese that any funds
not spent this year, will be deducted from next year's amount. Therefore
all parishes are advised that THEIR INTENTIONS FOR USE OF ANY REMAINING
FUNDS MUST BE MADE CLEAR, BY OUR NOVEMBER MEETING. For any projects which
are ongoing, we are allowed to reserve that money till next year.
DEANERY LEVEL EXPENDITURE
A statement with deanery level expenditure to June 07, was handed out. This
includes payment of Labora, the Little Books, wages, Deanery Library,
deanery level workshops (eg Ray Sanchez), Beginning Theology fees , funding
for advanced theology studies. Julie commented that the latter is by
application only, and the original purpose was for training of those in
parish ministry. Recently, teachers have been enquiring about the funding
for Foundations. Fr John said that it doesn't matter if the people
sponsored won't be directly involved in parish ministry. It is an
invitation to ALL.
It was suggested that BCE might offer funding for its teachers who study
Foundations.
Tom suggested that the expenditure updates, prepared by Mary Kirkpatrick,
and distributed at all DPC meetings, be sent to all PPC's. Tom reports to
his PPC each time, but this may not be the case in every parish. All DPC
members were encouraged to communicate with their PPC.
WORLD YOUTH DAY – ARCHDIOCESAN FUNDS:
As advised in the note sent out with agenda, all deaneries in the
archdiocese next year will receive $40 000. Discussion was on how to
distribute this money to our parishes. IT was suggested that all parishes
send in details : number of pilgrims they hope to send, projects they wish
to undertake (eg during "Days in the Dioceses"; we should know in October,
how many overseas visitors will come to our parish in 2008, in the week
before WYD in Sydney OR maybe the sponsoring of pilgrims from
overseas/other communities)……..with this information at our November 3rd
meeting, we can make a reasonable decision on allocation of the funds.
INFORMATION ON NUMBER OF PILGRIMS, ETC TO BE SENT IN BY NOVEMBER MEETING.
Fr John said they hoped to send 12 people from Gayndah, including adult
supervisors. They needed to know, as soon as possible, if they would have
$5000 of the funds, (one eighth of the funding for our 8 parishes) so that
this group of people could decide if they could go (finances being the
main hindrance to many people). Julie said it should not be a problem,
considering the size of the group, and the financial hardship , and she
would confirm this with Fr Pat this week. Gayndah has linked with Camp Hill
parish for the WYD pilgrimage.
Some members suggested that there could be some sort of deanery gathering
for all those involved in WYD pilgrimage. At present, parishes were dealing
with WYD at their own parish level.;
it seemed better this way, after attempts at Youth gatherings/communication
at deanery level were becoming very difficult by the end of last year. Some
parishes had commented that they needed to concentrate on their own
struggling youth activities.
There is still the possibility of all parishes in our deanery ,supporting
each other in our WYD preparations, or maybe travelling together to Brisbane
next year. Julie said that Carmel Donnelly (Campus Minister of Xavier) had
offered to help with any information or in any other way, about WYD, for any
parish who is unsure of how to proceed . (Carmel's No. is : 0448488443)
ARCHDIOCESAN PASTORAL COUNCIL – REPORT (Tom Bushell)
Tom said that there were e-reports on the Diocesan website, for those who
use the web. HE handed out a copy of the current e-report – the minutes of
the last APC meeting. Tom suggested that each meeting, we could spend 15 or
20 minutes discussing a couple of the 9 Priorities. This would make Tom's
job of sharing about our deanery at APC meetings, much easier.
Julie pointed out that we need to remember the purpose of the Deanery
funding, was to help implement the 9 priorities in our deanery.
Hope commented, after reading the Archbishop's talk in the e-report, on
"real ignorance about the Eucharist" that she agreed, and it was a real
shame that there was so much ignorance in the church.
AROUND THE PARISHES
Hervey Bay: with rapidly growing population, our schools are finding it
hard to cope with the demand for Catholic education. ( 2 Catholic primaries,
and one Catholic secondary). We have 6 candidates for RCIA, 54 young
children were about to make their first reconciliation, and 79 candidates
were confirmed in June.
Gayndah: the sacramental program is great, and is a real outreach. People
are coming in with no background in the Catholic faith, and one mum is now
coming to church. The Good Samaritans celebrated their 150 years
(sequicentenary), with a great celebration recently in the Gayndah parish.
Kim said there was a wonderful connection between the school and the parish.
There are only 30% of Catholic families in the school, yet there is a good
turn up to the weekly prayer group. It is a wonderful outreach. Classes
come weekly to Mass, and whole school masses are every 2 months or so.
Kingaroy: Mary said there had been a farewell to Margaret Todd in July (the
same time Mary's brother became a Catholic!) Mary has been a volulnteer
since 1995 in Kingaroy. The volunteers do the funeral teas, the bread run,
and visit the aged and sick. There are 8 volunteers currently in thegroup.
Murgon: Fr Dan said that non-Catholic children are enrolling in the
sacramental program (they are baptized in other Christian denominations);
there have been about 10 of these in the last couple of year. This is a very
good thing.
Gympie: There had been a retreat by Fr Chris Gleeson, on Ignatian
Spirituality.
MEETING CLOSED AT 12 NOON.
NEXT MEETING IS AT GYMPIE AT 10 AM ON SATURDAY 3RD NOVEMBER.
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