Pastoral Planning
Archdiocese of Santa Fe Pastoral Plan & Implementation Guide
English Pastoral Plan
English Implementation Guide
Spanish
Pastoral Plan
Spanish Implementation Guide
Archdiocesan Pastoral Council
Taken from the Archdiocesan Pastoral Plan, the pastoral priority of
Consultation and Governance’s first
goal centers around models of shared responsibility and calls for the creation
of Parish Pastoral Councils in all parishes in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
To model that effort, Archbishop Sheehan has now established an
Archdiocesan Pastoral Council.
Archbishop Appoints New Archdiocesan Pastoral Council (People of God Article
March 2008)
Parish Pastoral Councils
The Parish Pastoral Council is a consultative body of parishioners who are
called to work collaboratively with the pastor and pastoral staff to maintain
the integrity of the parish mission.
They are the leadership entity that provides long-range planning and goal
setting and who is invited to investigate, reflect and propose practical
conclusions to proposed plans. Unlike parish councils of the past which often
dealt with day to day concerns of the Parish, including temporal and material
needs, Councils today are called to be visionaries, to plan for the best
possibilities for the future of the church and the flourishing of all areas of
ministry.