While I find it difficult to get information about St. Al's by asking, sometimes I come upon information elsewhere. A page on Archdiocese of Milwaukee Planning links to Resources that include the 2006 Implementation Commission Responses. If you don't know your parish's district you can find it on the alphabetic list of Parish Codes Clusters [6 pp. pdf]. For example, St. Al's is in District 16.
The District 16 Implementation Commission Report 2005-06 is mostly boilerplate contained in every district's report. The data is on page 4. St. Al's had an Average Mass Attendance of 27% of Registered Members (2,365/8,817). This ranked 15th out of 16 parishes in the District. The only parish with a lower percentage was St. Mary Help of Christians at 26%. Not long after, it closed.
The neighboring St. John the Evangelist parish had 57% attendance (1,742/3,038), highest in the district. It has about three-fourths as many people as Sunday Mass, compared to St. Al's, even though St. Al's has almost three times as many members. I notice they serve this almost as large an active membership with only two people in non-school paid staff positions, compared to St. Al's six.
You might have noticed Rev. Alan Jurkus is already listed as Pastor, though he technically has not yet been installed as such. I also made inquiry, without success, how his former parish, St. Monica, had been doing. The data is on page 4 of the District 11 Report [6 pp. pdf]. It was last in the District, with 21% attendance (1,419/6,773), even lower than St. Al's.
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