CLUSTER 27 PASTORAL PLAN ONE PAGE SUMMARY
Bucks County Vicariate
Rev. Msgr. John V. Bartos, Vicar
Bristol-Fairless Hills-Fallsington-Levittown-Penndel
Approved by Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, November 7, 1997
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PARISHES:
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St. Mark, Bristol St. Michael, Levittown Our Lady of Grace, Penndel Queen of the Universe, Levittown |
The Cluster Pastoral Plan includes the following goals:
1)Training of lay leadership with emphasis on youth.
2)Continuing education of adults.
3)Fostering a deeper spirituality of leaders, parish staff and parishioners.
Throughout the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, parishes located in a particular geographical area, were formed into Clusters. In Bucks County there are six such Clusters.
Assisted by their Mission Statement and Self Study program, eight parishes in the Levittown area met in November 1996 to evaluate needs, strengths, limitations and resources within the Cluster.
Each parish was represented on the Cluster Pastoral Planning Committee by its pastor and two members of the Parish Pastoral Council.
Early meetings dealt with parish surveys, internal strengths and weaknesses of Cluster parishes, shortage of clergy and religious, and the need to develop more lay leadership. As a result eight key issues surfaced for concentration and inclusion within the Cluster Plan; viz., youth ministry and their continued religious education, training of lay leadership, adult religious education, communications among cluster parishes, evangelization, stewardship, sacramental policy, and social issues.
Representatives from each of the eight parishes (pastor and one Parish Pastoral Council member) will begin to implement the Cluster Plan in early 1998 as well as identify the common needs, resources, and system for monitoring progress within the Cluster.