PLAN OF HISPANIC PASTORAL IN SANTA TERESITA.   2009 - 2012

OBJECTIVES OF the HISPANIC PASTORAL

                                I.            To invite and to give the welcome to the Latin community in our church.

                              II.            To increase the number of Latin catholics who actively participate in the life and mission of santa Teresita.

                            III.            To develop activities that motivate vocations for the priesthood, permanent religious life or deaconship in our community.

                           IV.            To give the welcome and to support the young people of our community.

                             V.            To increase the reach to the inmigrants with creative programs and projects that are pastoral and culturally effective to the community. That is to say, activities that arrive at the families, young people in risk, parents in necessity and broken families.

                           VI.            To fortify the promotion of the social lessons of the catholic church. 

ACHIVIEMENTS:

1.               We counted on the program of catechism with bilingual texts and that in the 2007-2008 we had 59 registered families, 85 students for the first communion, and a special program of catechism for adults. We had prepared servants affluent. 12 Readers, 13 ministers of communion, 7 ushers, 6 servers. All of them generous and faithful ones in the mission.

2.               To participate in adult catechesis to teach the meaning of the mass, lent and sacraments.

3.               To obtain greater unit between Latin of the church the annual Retirements for ministers where the word of God studies. Group of young people preparing itself to receive the confirmation. We counted on preparation for sacraments. Preparation for quinceañeras. Three choirs very jeopardize. Our Hispanic Committee meets every month to facilitate the development and integration of the Hispanic community within the context of the parish.  Committees in charge of different celebrations and activities (supervisory Celebration, League of Soccer, Virgin of Guadalupe, inns, Day of dead, Stations of the Cross, Lent and others) the Biblical Study directed by the Father Bill has turned two years of life. This group arose from the specific request of the Hispanic committee. A group for the pastoral of patients has been created. "Healthy Jesus" works in coordination with the equipment.  We counted on a registry of members renewed.  We counted on page of Internet in Spanish.  Sacraments and celebrations: Baptisms 117, First communion 79, Confirmations 7, Marriages 11, Quinceañeras 15, Presentations 39. Presence continues of the community in our liturgies and events of social justice for the immigrants. We worked with HISPANIC CASA, LATIN LINK and with the organization ESTHER.  

CHALLENGES:

1.      Increasing Number of the Hispanic community.

2.      To renew efforts to integrate to the American and Latin parish.

3.      To increase the participation of the parish. 

4.      To invite the community to that it participates in the liturgy and special events.

5.      To improve the attention and participation in subjects of Justice and Peace.

6.      To make together programs with the office of vocations, in Spanish to motivate to the priesthood, religious or deaconship life.

7.      To make a photographic directory to know better our members of the parish. To certify our training like catechists.

8.      To create more spaces for the oration and spiritual reflection.

9.      To create married retirements or courses for marriages. Greater availability in the mission. 

10. To work with the young people. To make activities that give bottoms for the parish.  Desire of the community to discover its personal and spiritual gifts. There are many activities in other parishes from the Diocese at level of formation to invite the community that they attend. By our Hispanic tradition one lives on multiple ways the cultural values of the family. People always want to implement what she knows and she appreciates in his heart. The challenge is to adopt one better attitude of scarcity with respect to the diocesan structures and to the operation of the church in this country.  Clearer communication.  Better planning.  

OUR DUTIES AND STRATEGIES LIKE MINISTERS AND MINISTERS:

1.      We are directly responsible to the main shepherd, maintaining spiritual and faithful a relation as friends and collaborator in the vine of the Lord .

2.      To invite the community to be ministers of the church.

3.      To identify leaders in the community to invite them to  participate. To help the priest to fulfill the vision of God for the general ministry of the church.

4.      To work with other members of the ministerial personnel in a spirit of friendship and aid to coordinate the activities of the Hispanic committee.

5.      To identify young people with vocation to the priesthood or religious life in informing it to it to the Shepherd or the coordinator into the pastoral.

6.      To be an example of the total ministry of the local church.

7.      To be faithful in attending the services of the church.

8.      To support to the church in the special events of the church.

9.      To participate in the processes of decision of the parish.  To make the evaluations of the Hispanic pastoral. 

10. To maintain to the church with its tithes not to speak of any confidential information.

11. Not to criticize to the leadership of the church, but to motivate a direct and constructive dialogue between us. To inform to the main shepherd when misunderstandings happens between members of the ministry.

12. To participate in the dinners of volunteers. 

13. In regard of the social lessons of the catholic church: To explain and to distribute in English and Spanish the events of Justice for the immigrants, as much of Esther as of the diocese.

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Coordinator of the Hispanic Ministy