Parish (New) Life Committee Update

Last week's parish bulletin [pdf 1mb, p. 4] included the above item on the agenda for the February 6th parish council meeting. The "(New)" might be an attempt to clear up the ambiguity I had pointed out.

Our pastor gave a preview of the update at Mass last week. He said forty people met for ninety minutes. What "surfaced" was that our parish doesn't communicate well with its people.

So sixty hours of parishioners' time, and all the planning, and all the upcoming reporting, and all to say the same thing I said at a parish council meeting a year ago. And, reviewing my old parish council minutes file, I didn't say anything last year that hadn't been said in the 1999 attempt to create a Communication committee.

So if you attend tomorrow's meeting, feel free to update me on how much deeper the rut is after another year of spinning the wheels.