SUMMARY OF INITIAL PASTORAL PLANNING MEETINGS

Willimantic Deanery

(please click on date to see Summary Notes)

Final Report: June 2010

March 22, 2009

March 11, 2009

December 2009

   SPECIFIC INFORMATION

Some statistics:

     The Willimantic deanery is made up of 10 parishes and two mission churches.  As of October 15, these parishes are served by 13 priests, four of whom are over the retirement age of 75, and three of whom have other assignments within the diocese. The October Count for the deanery has decreased by about 700 in the last four years. Currently, the deanery has about 40 weekend masses available for about 5500 people. Half the population of the deanery is in three parishes; Holy Family in Hebron, St. Thomas in Storrs and St. Joseph in Willimantic.  Excluding those three parishes, average attendance at weekend masses is about 120. 

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The First Meeting:

     The first meeting of the Willimantic regional committee took place on Monday, December 14, 2009 at St. Joseph Parish, Willimantic.  All parishes of the deanery were represented.

     The meeting began with an Advent prayer.

     The clusters for the deanery changed slightly with the addition of St. Andrew Parish, Colchester.

 Announcements:

• No scheduled meetings as of now. 

• Final reports announced of the final summary and for each cluster.

 Tentative Agenda

General Meeting

1. Opening prayer

2. Any questions or concerns

3.  Information from notes of meetings

4. Announcements

Cluster Meetings

NOTE:  Each cluster determines the moderator and the note-taker.  Notes from the cluster meetings are sent to the Pastoral Planning Office and from there are posted on the website www.willimanticdeanery.com 

1.  What progress is being made on collaboration between parishes?

2.  Continue working on formulating recommendations for restructuring parishes of the cluster.

3.  What information from this meeting is to be communicated to parishioners, and how will this be done?