Olympic Catholic Town Hall Meetings

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Highlights from this session:

• Why aren’t we haven’t blessings for children and non-Catholics during communion time at Mass?
  • What about having a special blessing for those who can’t/don’t receive after Mass?
• Are there plans to offer some kind of special opportunity for students of public schools to serve as ministers at Mass?
• Further concerns/questioning about blessings at communion time
  • What about putting off changing and putting the question to the bishop?
  • Is the question of blessings at communion doctrine or discipline?
• Didn’t the family Mass – that aimed at including children & young adults participating as ministers – end up with the same people volunteering over and over?
• Especially given issues of disruptions at Mass by mentally ill and/or homeless visitors, could we establish security teams at our parishes?
• Question about starting new initiatives for adult faith formation
• Would it be possible to keep vigil Masses at both Queen of Angeles and Saint Joseph?
  • Why couldn’t we have two vigil Masses on Saturday?
  • Is it possible to have a Sunday Mass at 5:00 pm?
  • Questions/concerns about the possibilities of what three Masses on Sunday might look like
  • Concern about Sunday evening Mass being a priest-killer
• How is the chancery addressing priestly vocation discernment?

Click here to read more on Fr. Maurer’s blog.

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Highlights from this session:

• If an elderly or handicapped person can’t come up for communion, what are the options for the Eucharist being brought to them?
• What is the parish family’s new emergency number? (360) 809-6907
• Can we put the confessional (at St. Anne in Forks) back up front?
• We’re excited about what you’re doing, but what happens in 2-3 years if you (the pastor/priests) get moved?
• What can you tell us about the current stage of discernment around the vigil Mass at St. Anne?
• What about training for liturgical & ministerial training for the various roles?
• What happened to the answers & results of the questionnaires from the archdiocese that we took so much time to answer?
• Could we have petty cash at the parish office (at St. Anne) in order to offer help to those who come to our door looking for help?
• Do we have to call up the office at Queen of Angels in Port Angeles to arrange for Mass intentions at our local parish?
• What about printing our bulletin locally to allow for more flexibility?
• Currently, how can a parishioner arrange for a Mass intention? (bonus: explanation of upcoming online calendar publishing coming to our parish family)

Click here to read more on Fr. Maurer’s blog.

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Highlights from this session:

• Is there going to be an emergency number for a priest in case you need one?
• Are we going to get all three priests at our (any given) parish over time?
• Will we keep our donations here – in this parish to pay for all of our expenses and staff?
• What about parish groups that have their own funding or whatnot?
• What about pastoral and finance councils – how will that work?
• What’s the timeline for our parishes become one parish family?
• In the beginning it seemed like priests living together was super important, but now that’s gone away? Also, will there be a priest here to lead things like Bible study?
• I’m concerned that in the changes with the vigil Masses at the central regions would weight on parish having the ‘prime’ Masses (the vigil & the late morning Masses) and the other having lesser Masses
• What about the Saint Joseph rectory in Sequim?
• Will the Spanish Mass still be available?
• Would Father Gali (or Father Ed) be available for pastoral care?
• Are you trying to solve the problem of priest vocations by encouraging married priests or women priests?
• Could we consider making Eucharistic adoration more available? And could we have more communion services so people could at least receive communion?
• Are we going to have more times here at Saint Mary?
• I think we need to generate excitement – we need to be open to new initiatives to generate excitement
• Why did you bring the guy from the chancery? (Introducing our Parish Liaison from the Archdiocese)
• What about Mass intentions?