MEETING MINUTES
Present: Father Romanus, Paul Anderson, Sherry Kaminski, Katrin Kempowski, Vince Sciano, Linda Krowsky, Sue Dolkiewicz, Anne Uecker, and Pat Sciano
Not Present: Gerry Burant and Dick Kucharski
The meeting began with Pat giving the opening prayer.
The minutes from the September meeting were reviewed and approved.
Katrin, reporting on Christian Formation, stated the Baptismal anniversary Mass would be held on Sunday, October 7th. She reported Karen Bushman had mixed feelings regarding implementing the “Generations of Faith” program, due to the fact the whole faith community needs to be committed to this, as it includes adult religious formation as well. She is unsure of people’s willingness to participate.
Christian Formation would like to hold a fundraiser in the future, possibly a breakfast close to Easter.
The blessing of pets will take
place at
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Linda reported that Home and School is finding it
difficult to get parents of school children involved in meetings. It was felt that parents who have children
attending
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Sue Madunich, Human Concerns, was not in attendance to give her report on what activities she would like to engage in as far as the fundraising efforts she has in mind.
St. Veronica’s is holding a fundraiser for a young woman
who is seriously ill and is actually a member of
Evangelization – 200 door hangers will be placed at homes.
Paul is going to get the information to Sherry from the
Gathering Book in order for her to work it into the new Parish Directory. The deadline for printing is October
22nd. Sherry is also working on adding
information about the history of
The gratitude notices are being written by Katrin and Chris Fogarty and printed in the bulletin.
A new database has been purchased for the church office and Katrin has been entering information on parishioners, making it possible to pull up any information quickly and easily.
It was discussed that it has been a very long time since
UPDATES FROM FATHER ROMANUS
Father Romanus is thinking of holding Bible study classes starting this Advent possibly on Wednesday evenings. He is thinking of teaching Church history during Advent and Scripture study during Lent.
Father drafted another proxy letter to the Archdiocese requesting approval to spending an additional $20,000.00 for the church renovation. Included in this cost would be carpeting the choir loft and the two stairways leading up to it.
Father Romanus, Sherry, and Vince are going to meet with a representative of Hahn’s Badger Carpet Service this week to finalize the carpeting of the sanctuary area; the carpeting will then be ordered.
Father Romanus attended one of the planning sessions held by the Archdiocese for priests in September. The calculation is that there are only 30 priests under the age of 55 and in 13 years all those over 55 will have retired. Due to the small number of priests ordained each year, it is probably only a matter of time when merging of parishes will be forced to take place. This will continue to be discussed and studied.
The meeting ended at
The next meeting will be on Monday, November 5 with Dick leading the opening prayer.
Respectfully submitted by: Pat Sciano, Parish Council Secretary