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Our Lady of the Valley

Liturgy Committee Meeting

January 11, 2012

              Our Lady of the Valley Liturgy Committee met Wednesday, January 11, 2012

at 7:00 PM in St. Ann School Meeting Room with the following members present:  Bill Loree,

Chair; Father Peter Anglaaere, Bev Gilbert, Margie Terry, Anne Gemmell, Father Paulinus

                    1.     Prayer – Bill Loree called the meeting to order at 7 PM and led us in an

                            opening Prayer - Our Lady of the Valley Parish Prayer.

                    2.     Roll Call – See above.  

                    3.     Approval of December 14, 2011 minutes – approved as presented.

                    4.     Christmas Review

                            Christmas Eve – 4:30 PM – Children’s mass was well attended.  Remind Bill Loree he doesn’t need 15 minutes for children sing along next year.

St. Mary’s 8:00 was full to capacity.  St. Ann’s 10:00 attendance good

                            Christmas Day – Masses at 7:00 AM and 10:30 AM  Good attendance

Did have some blue advent books left over.  Fr. Peter felt maybe too much reading material to choose from.  Bev suggested that we had them out after each mass as parishioners are leaving the church starting with lent 2012

                   5. Mass change – No Negative comments

                   6. Feast of St. Blasé on Friday Feb. 3, 2012.  Blessing of the throats will be on Saturday Feb. 4 and Sunday 5.

Feb.  22 is Ash Wednesday announce in bulletin and at weekend before masses to bring last year’s palms to be burned for ashes.

We will stuff the Black books for lent at the February meeting.

                     7.  Liturgy Committee requested to do coffee hour on Feb. 12th.  Discussion followed and it was recommended that coffee hour not be done in the winter months because of the cold weather.  Bill Loree will respond back to Donna Haraty that Liturgy will not do the coffee hour in Feb.

                    8. Review Goal Setting for 2012.

                       We would like Father Peter to dedicate a mass to public servants and their families.  Beverly Gilbert suggested we have a special recognition to a dedicated volunteer.  Recognize them publically and with a plaque.  Fr. Peter will follow up on this request.

Lenten Retreat with a healing mass:  Fr. Peter is having a difficult time trying to find a priest that will do a healing mass.  He is trying to get our Parish on Fr. (can’t remember his name) list but so far unsuccessful.

Continue Tridium in July.  Fr. Peter looking for a priest.

Continue Memorial Mass in November:  Bev recommended that the memorial mass always be the first Sunday in November.  Fr. Peter will reserve Nov. 4, 2012 for next year’s memorial mass.                       

Discussed the lack of ushers at 10:00 mass on Christmas Eve.  Still looking for a liaison for the ushers.  Suggestion was made to ask J.P. Holbrook.  Bill will contact him.

Reinstate the Gift Program.  Fr. Peter felt that the Men’s Forum has taken over what the gift program was doing when Fr. Pat was here. 

Fr. Peter and Bev recommended we continue the Parish Picnic.  Need Volunteers to make this event successful. 

Fr. Paulinus would like to see better ways to build our faith.  Fr. Peter thinking about a weekly forum for interested people to ask questions etc. about our faith.  Starting with lent.

Fr. Peter informed the group that the Strategic Planning committees have met and will be going to each committee meetings in the future to share what they are working on.   Mission of Fr. Peter’s sub committees are to work on a 3-5 year plan for the financial health of the Parish. 

                            9. Other:  It was noted by Ann Gemmell that the 12:15 weekday masses are poorly attended.  Fr. Peter’s hope is that attendance will pick up during Lent.

Bev. Gilbert thanked Jim and Mary Hawes, Margie Terry Family and Mary Vance for putting the Christmas decorations away after the 10:30 mass on 1/8/12. 

                      10. Next meeting Feb. 8, 2012

Fr. Paulinus closed the meeting with prayer at 8:05

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Respectfully submitted:

Margie Terry

Acting Secretary for John Bartell