Partnership with St. Mary's

Changes to the original plan are shown in blue

Bishop Eton Parish Awakening Plan
Contributors to plan	Attendees at Parish Awakening (PA) Day 10 October 2015	Responsibility to ensure plan is actioned	Parish Core Team (PCT)
Objectives strengthening our parish communities becoming more inspired by the conviction of God’s gifts allowing God’s gifts in us to flourish renewing our commitment to every aspect of parish life re-energising the younger generations ensuring that everyone feels included fully in parish life ensuring that many more people take responsibility and play a part in the many activities which contribute to the lives of both parishes providing an opportunity for people to commit, to help out, to volunteer and to become more actively involved in parish activities by signing up
Success criteria BE parish community strengthened BE strengthened links with St Mary’s community Parishioners more inspired by the conviction of God’s gifts God’s gifts flourishing Renewal of commitment Younger parishioners playing their part in parish life Housebound enabled to play their part in parish life Everyone feels included fully in parish life People take responsibility and play a part in the parish organisations People volunteer and to become more actively involved in parish groups		Desired outcomes Increase in Membership of each parish group and organisation Mass attendance Parishioner input into liturgy as e.g. musicians and readers Eucharistic Ministers Funeral Ministers Volunteers coming forward Retention of children and families following first communion Young people taking more responsibility for parish life 20+ people attending each workshop session 100% outreach to housebound Volunteers joining new organisations in sustainable numbers

The actions in the plan have been divided into categories. These have been displayed in a tabular form. The list below contains links which will allow you to jump to the category you are interested in.

Welcoming, Communications, Parish Organisations, New Organisations, Workshops, Volunteers, RYM, Liturgy, Links with Schools, Catechesis, Spirituality, Links with St. Mary's, Finances, Re-awakening Conference

St. Mary’s Activities

The following activities occur regularly at St. Mary's

Monday

Activity	Time	Where
Tai Chi (All ages & fitness levels)	9.30am-10.30am	Parish Hall (main hall)
Line Dancing (All ages & fitness levels)	1.00pm-2.00pm	Parish Hall (main hall)
SVP (Membership required)	7.30pm-8.30pm (Every other Monday)	St Mary’s Presbytery
Scripture Class	7.30pm-8.30pm Every other Monday)	St Mary’s Presbytery

Tuesday

Activity	Time	Where
Caterpillar Music (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)	10.00am-noon	Parish Hall (main hall)
Fantastic music classes for babies, toddlers and pre-school children. Our popular sessions include amazing puppets, colourful, age appropriate musical instruments and a variety of other props such as parachutes, bean bags chiffon scarves and bubbles to name but a few. Each session is based around a theme and children will learn popular and traditional nursery rhymes combined with some newer fun action songs. The benefits of introducing your little one to music at an early age are enormous. Music and singing develops speech and vocabulary and motor skills and our sessions can also improve confidence and social skills. Above all our sessions are fun and provide parents, grandparents and carers an opportunity to engage with their little ones, learn songs together and meet others in a relaxed and friendly environment.
Yoga (For beginners & advanced)	2.00pm-3.30pm	Parish Hall (main hall)
AA (Just call in)	7.00pm-9.30pm	Parish Hall (small room)

Wednesday

Activity	Time	Where
Weight Watchers	10.00am-11.00am	Parish Hall (main hall)
St Mary’s Luncheon Club (All welcome)	12.30pm-3.30pm (3^rd Wednesday of the month)	Parish Hall (main hall)
UCM (Union of Catholic Mothers – Membership required -call in )	12.30pm-3.30pm (2^nd & 4^th Wednesday of the month)	Parish Hall (small room)
Flamenco Dancing	7.00pm-8.00pm	Parish Hall (main hall)

Thursday

Activity	Time	Where
Weight Watchers	5.30pm-7.30pm	Parish Hall (main hall)
Baptism Prep Course (Booking required)	7.15pm-8.15pm (1^st & 2^nd Thursday of the month)	Parish Hall (small room)
Yoga (For beginners & advanced)	7.15pm-8.15pm	Parish Hall (main hall)

Friday

Activity

Time

Where

Craft Club

(Just call in - not during the summer months)

9.30am-noon

Parish Hall (main hall)

Saturday

Activity

Time

Where

Suzuki – violin lessons

(Membership required – call in)

3.00pm-5.00pm (intermittent)

Parish Hall (main hall)

Sunday

Activity

Time

Where

Children’s Liturgy

During 11am Mass

Parish Hall (main hall)

Yoga

(For beginners & advanced)

7.00pm-8.00pm

Parish Hall (main hall)

Fantastic music classes for babies, toddlers and pre-school children. Our popular sessions include amazing puppets, colourful, age appropriate musical instruments and a variety of other props such as parachutes, bean bags chiffon scarves and bubbles to name but a few. Each session is based around a theme and children will learn popular and traditional nursery rhymes combined with some newer fun action songs. The benefits of introducing your little one to music at an early age are enormous. Music and singing develops speech and vocabulary and motor skills and our sessions can also improve confidence and social skills. Above all our sessions are fun and provide parents, grandparents and carers an opportunity to engage with their little ones, learn songs together and meet others in a relaxed and friendly environment.

Bishop Eton Parish Awakening Plan
Contributors to plan	Attendees at Parish Awakening (PA) Day 10 October 2015	Responsibility to ensure plan is actioned	Parish Core Team (PCT)
Objectives strengthening our parish communities becoming more inspired by the conviction of God’s gifts allowing God’s gifts in us to flourish renewing our commitment to every aspect of parish life re-energising the younger generations ensuring that everyone feels included fully in parish life ensuring that many more people take responsibility and play a part in the many activities which contribute to the lives of both parishes providing an opportunity for people to commit, to help out, to volunteer and to become more actively involved in parish activities by signing up
Success criteria BE parish community strengthened BE strengthened links with St Mary’s community Parishioners more inspired by the conviction of God’s gifts God’s gifts flourishing Renewal of commitment Younger parishioners playing their part in parish life Housebound enabled to play their part in parish life Everyone feels included fully in parish life People take responsibility and play a part in the parish organisations People volunteer and to become more actively involved in parish groups		Desired outcomes Increase in Membership of each parish group and organisation Mass attendance Parishioner input into liturgy as e.g. musicians and readers Eucharistic Ministers Funeral Ministers Volunteers coming forward Retention of children and families following first communion Young people taking more responsibility for parish life 20+ people attending each workshop session 100% outreach to housebound Volunteers joining new organisations in sustainable numbers

Fr. Tim's piece from July 2015's edition of BE Alive

When I wrote this piece for the May edition of BE Alive I did some reflecting and posed a few questions. I look back on the past four years with gratitude and some satisfaction. Now I invite you to build on what has been achievedand prepare for the future with the calm assurance that comes from the words of our Lord himself: “I will be with you always.”

Everything has been pointing me towards calling a grand assembly of our two parishes in the early autumn and after much encouragement from all those whom I have so far consulted we are going ahead with a day in St Julie’s School on Saturday 10 October. This coincides with the Synod on the Family in Rome and provides us with an opportunity to work out how we can respond to the invitation to become ‘evangelising parishes’ and the initiative of our bishops: ‘Proclaim 15.’ We will unite with our brothers and sisters across the country and have ‘Holy Hours’ on 11 July to pray for the success of this whole venture.

PARISH AWAKENING

‘Carpe Diem’: the Latin phrase for ‘seize the day’. It always reminds me of the film, ‘Dead Poets’ Society’ in which Robin Williams plays the teacher who uses some unconventional methods but inspires his pupils to grasp the opportunities life affords.

Whether you are familiar with the film or not, I hope you will understand me when I say that I believe that for our two parishes such a moment is presenting itself. When I was entrusted with the care of Bishop Eton and St Mary’s four years ago, you were in the throes of looking at how you might reorganise yourselves in face of the challenge of sharing a parish priest. In the event with the closure of our house in Sunderland and the reorganisation of the Redemptorist Province I calculated that we would have enough priests in Bishop Eton to maintain the timetables of both parishes and we have successfully achieved that in the intervening years. Now I do not anticipate that there is any immediate need to review that decision, but I do want to alert everyone, young and not so young, to what is happening all around us, not only in the Liverpool Archdiocese but across the country and indeed in many other parts of the world.