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MINUTES OF THE PARISH
PASTORAL COUNCIL HELD ON 9 MARCH 2004
Summary
Present:
Barry O’Halpin, Paddy McEneaney, Yvonne Stausboll, Yvonne Nielsen, Suzanne
Woods, Walter Huyghe, Brigid Alty, Greg Kaufmann, Susanne Lehne, Johny Van
Der Bracht, Ferran Tarradellas.
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Apologies:
Fr. Vincent Gallogley, Pat Farrington, Fr.
John Kealy. Judith Carr, Brian O’Neill
The meeting began at 19.45hrs and Brigid said the opening prayer.
There were no matters arising from the February Minutes so they were
approved.
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Website:
Ferran gave a detailed report on the present situation regarding the Parish
Website and outlined plans for upgrading and enhancing the existing website.
A general discussion took place on the future development of the site and
Council members were invited to view the existing website and contact Ferran
with comments/suggestions. Ferran would report back to the Council at a
later stage with a detailed proposal for future development of the site.
Barry thanked Ferran for the time/effort he had invested in managing the
Parish website.
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Charities:
We had a request for assistance with exercise books/felt-tip pens etc. for a
charity (school) in rural Kenya (via Helga McCourt) and it was agreed that
an appeal would be made in Words requesting contributions (exercise
books/felt tip pens) for the weekend of 24/25 April. There would not be a
financial appeal from the altar on the weekend of 24/25 April.
ACTION: Yvonne S.
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Education and
Evangelisation:
A series of talks/video presentation under the title ‘Life in the Spirit’
will begin in late April. ACTION: Susanne L.
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Worship:
Barry mentioned the idea of devoting the Sunday after Easter to the theme of
‘Mercy’. It was decided to further discuss this suggestion during the
preparations of the programme for Easter 2005.
Parish Life:
Paddy mentioned that the publicity/volunteer form for setting up Helping
Hands would feature in the Easter edition of the Parish Life newsletter.
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Fayre
Yvonne N. mentioned the need for recruiting volunteers for the Fayre (June
13). Mention was also made of the need to launch the bottle stall appeal.
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Maintenance:
Johny reported on the state of play regarding maintenance. The fencing was
now finished. There were still some problems with the gate locks but they
would be sorted as soon as possible. Work would soon begin on the car park
lighting. Once again, problems with the sound system were raised.
Unfortunately one of the main problems is that the new equipment (radio
microphones/lectern microphone) is connected to a sound system
(amplifier/mixer and speakers) that is requiring updating. Efforts will be
made over the coming weeks to review this situation.
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A.O.B.
Barry, on behalf of the Council, extended our deepest sympathy to the family
of René Delplace. The Council agreed to assist in any way possible with the
funeral mass/reception later in the week.
The next meeting will be on 20 April at 19.30 hrs.
Greg said the closing prayer and the meeting ended at 21.30hrs.
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