Living Our Faith in our Future

My earlier post on Archdiocesan planning drew a number of responses. Some noted the vocabulary in the underlying articles in our Catholic Herald. Those, in turn, drew a post at Catholic Sensibility on whether or not it's significant the articles haven't been Mentioning The Name of Jesus but also on the planning itself.

It doesn’t look like you have some kind of program carved in stone anyway–the news items say these are just starter questions getting passed around.

If I search the Archdiocesan web site for Father Connell's name, I find the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Annual Parish Leadership Conference.

At the general sessions
...
Fr. James Connell, Vicar for Planning, will share his vision for planning

This was posted on September 15th, a month after the Catholic Herald article. Things might not be written in stone, but they're on a fast track.

Also on the agenda is "Living Our Faith, our Evangelization initiative". Searching for this I find a solicitation for Living Our Faith Story Ideas. These appear destined for a "livingourfaith.net" web site to come.

Living Our Faith presents Catholics in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee an invitation to engage in these three key activities:

Meeting Christ
Knowing Christ
Living Christ

There is also a session on "the Capital Campaign: Faith in our Future" which, the juxtaposition indicates, will present Catholics in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee an invitation to engage in a fourth key activity.

The conference is "for pastors, parish council leadership and APC [Archdiocesan Pastoral Council] members". It's on a Saturday morning and there's a $25 fee to attend.