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THE CHURCH ENGAGES - Year 3 (2021 - 2022)
The Road to the Pastoral Plan
November 2022 - Archbishop Hebda's Pastoral Letter
Archbishop Hebda will take into consideration the recommend Pastoral Priorities and will write a Pastoral Letter to be published and sent out to parishes on the Feast of Christ the King.
June 3 - 5, 2022 - Archdiocesan Synod Assembly
Pastors will appoint two members and an alternate from each parish from the team that attended the Parish Synod Leadership Team Consultation to attend the Archdiocesan Synod Assembly with other delegates from each of the parishes around the Archdiocese. Archbishop Hebda will also appoint more than 100 other members to participate in the Synod Assembly in keeping with canon law requirements. Approximately 500 delegates will gather to learn, pray, and discuss the Synod topics in a weekend event at Cretin-Durham Hall High School in St. Paul. Collectively the Synod Members will recommend pastoral priorities to Archbishop Hebda.
March 5, 2022 - Parish Synod Leadership Team Consultation
Each pastor was asked to designate 5 - 10 parish leaders to discuss topics in the three Synod Focus Areas at the Parish Synod Leadership Team Consultation. SJA held this meeting on Saturday, March 5, with 11 appointed members present, to view the Archdiocese video, discuss draft Synod propositions, provide feedback electronically to Archbishop Hebda, and brainstorm ideas for implementation in our own parish for some of these ideas.
THE CHURCH PREPARES - Year 2 (2020 - 2021)
FALL PRAYER AND STUDY
In Fall 2021 parishes met to hold Parish Consultations with Small Groups. Pastors invited all parishioners to participate in these small groups. SJA held six weeks of small groups and had more than 50 people participate each week.
The Archdiocese offered a "Praying with Scripture" video five-part series with talks and tools to grow in holiness. It is led by Archbishop Hebda, Bishop Cozzens, and Catholics from across the Archdiocese. The five themes are:
1. Prayer is a personal relationship with God
2. How to listen to God in our hearts
3. Conversation with God: acknowledge, relate, receive, respond
4. Discernment of spirits: consolation and desolation
5. Overcoming obstacles
Find the videos and other resources on the SYNOD website
ArchSPM.org/SynodPromo or ArchSPM.org/ministerio-latino/sinodo/
THE CHURCH LISTENS - Year 1 (2019 - 2020)
The Archdiocese was able to complete the prayer and listening events attended by over 8,000 faithful, providing over 35,000 comments on what is working well in our Archdiocese and challenges and opportunities as we move forward together. Based on this feedback, along with other consultations and discernment, Archbishop Hebda determined these broad Focus Areas that will shape the 2021 Deanery and Parish Consultation process.
PART 2: HEALING AND HOPE RETREAT October 18 - November 15, 2020
This virtual five-part retreat grounds each person’s fundamental identity as a beloved child of God. Yet each has experienced wounds that bind. This retreat explores how to unbind these knots through the intercession of Our Lady, Undoer of Knots, and open these wounds to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Encountering Jesus’ love and mercy brings healing and hope.
Session Titles, Talks, and Speakers
PART 3: WINTER/SPRING PRAYER AND STUDY
Faith and Culture Series | Four virtual sessions
Inspired by the thousands of participants at the Prayer and Listening Events, this series connects their stories to the story of the Church. Each virtual event includes a talk, testimonials, and a live panel discussion.
Come Holy Spirit,
Make our ears to hear,
Make our eyes to see,
Make our mouths to speak,
Make our hearts to seek,
Make our hands to reach out
and touch the world with your love.
AMEN.
Mary, Mother of the Church,
Pray for us.
OPENING PRAYER
We stand before You, Holy Spirit,
as we gather together in Your name.
With You alone to guide us,
make Yourself at home in our hearts;
Teach us the way we must go
and how we are to pursue it.
We are weak and sinful;
do not let us promote disorder.
Do not let ignorance lead us down the wrong path nor partially influence our actions.
Let us find in You our unity so that we may journey together to eternal life and not stray from the way of truth and what is right.
All this we ask of You,
who are at work in every place and time,
in the communion of the Father and the Son, forever and ever.
AMEN
Mary, Mother of the Church,
Pray for us.