ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA

February 2000 Issued: March 6, 2000

CLUSTER 14
IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE UPDATE
PHILADELPHIA - NORTH VICARIATE

The Implementation Committee of Cluster 14 met on Tuesday, February 8, 2000. The following is the latest information from their goal committees.

MULTI-MEDIA COMMITTEE:

This committee has set up subcommittees within their goal to carry out specific multi-media projects. They are: E-Mail, Web Site, Telephone, Print/Media and Video subcommittees. This committee asked for and received approval from the Implementation Committee for the Cluster Web Site.

Web Sites and E-Mail have been set up in our cluster parishes. One person in each parish has been trained to use them. The Print/Media subcommittee was established to advertise special events. This committee has been in touch with the print media. A Telephone subcommittee is in the planning stage. This will be set up so people in the Cluster 14 area can call to get information regarding the Cluster. The Video subcommittee has taped the two programs which the Religious Education subcommittee sponsored in the Fall. They plan to edit and merge them onto one tape which may be shown on La Salle's Channel 56 sometime in the future.

EVANGELIZATION:
Four parishes are involved in the "Disciples in Mission" program (Christ the King, St. Dominic, St. Jerome and Maternity B.V.M.) and three parishes are visiting inactive parishioners (St. Anselm, St. Christopher and Our Lady of Calvary).

ADULT EDUCATION:
Two programs are planned for the Spring.

• May 9, 2000 - "Spirituality in Everyday Life"
• May 17, 2000 - "Prayer of Mary"

LAY LEADERSHIP/LAY TRAINING:
This group had two guest speakers, Maryanne Harrington, Director of Church Ministry, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and Fr. Francis Berna, O.F.M., Director of Graduate Religion, La Salle University, speak to them at their last meeting. What came out of that meeting is that each parish must foster Adult Formation to develop lay leaders within their parishes. It was suggested that these speakers, or some other qualified person, come one evening and train a group from each Parish in the Cluster to promote a faith formation committee of adults.