SH Councils & Committees
Parish Council
In order to foster the unity of pastor and Christ’s faithful of the parish in carrying out Christ’s mission, The Code of Canon Law
legislates that, after consultation with the Presbyteral Council and in accord with his pastoral judgment, the Diocesan Bishop is to establish a pastoral council in each parish of the diocese. The parish pastoral council is to take its direction from and be governed by norms given by the Diocesan Bishop. The diocesan norms, then, are to be adapted to the particular circumstances of each parish according to the parish’s mission statement.
This is the kitchen table of our parish family where members come together to prayerfully discuss the concerns and blessings of the day. This consultative body aids our pastor in folllowing the promtings of the Holy Spirit as we strive to lead many souls closer to Christ.
Members:
Fr. Jeffrey Hennes
Fr. Jared Clements
Dcn. Nate Mueller
Bonnie Becker
Don Bloczynski
Jo Ann Gauerke
Kathy Steffen
Jeremy Quirt
Therese Wojahn
Finance Council
In the parish Christ’s faithful are gathered into one, under the headship of the pastor, to fulfill their mission in Christ, prophet, priest, and king. The kingly mission includes the assistance which Christ’s faithful, according to their gifts, their office in the Church, and their state of life, give to the pastor in the administration of the temporal goods of the Church. In order to give form and stability to the assistance offered by Christ’s faithful to their pastor in the administration of the parish’s temporal goods, The Code of Canon Law requires that each parish in a diocese have a parish finance council. The parish finance council is to be governed by universal Church law and by norms given by the Diocesan Bishop.
Members:
Fr. Jeffrey Hennes
Dcn. Nate Mueller
Chris Damerell
Theresa Wojahn
Buildings & Grounds
This group is charged with ensuring that our facilities are kept up to date, maintained, and plan for growth in the future. We strive to be a welcoming campus where our facilities aid others to deeper prayer.
Members:
Fr. Jeffrey Hennes
Sacred Worship
The Sacred Worship Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering, first and foremost, the liturgical life of the parish as celebrated in the Sacraments and other rites of the Church, with special attention to
the sick and isolated in the parish. Also of concern to this committee are the devotional aspects of the parish’s life of prayer.
Memberst:
Fr. Jeffrey Hennes
Fr. Jared Clements
Dcn. Nate Mueller
Family Life
The Family Life Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering Christian family life in the parish. Among its concerns are: the central place of the family in all parish pastoral activities; parish hospitality and social activities; youth ministry; vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life; pre-marriage preparation; marriage enrichment; natural family planning; and the pastoral care of single adult Catholics, divorced Catholics, divorced and remarried Catholics, and
widows and widowers.
Members:
Fr. Jeffrey Hennes
Social Justice
The Social Justice Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering pastoral concern and action for justice in the world, especially in all areas of parish life. Its concerns include: promotion of the respect for all human life; the pastoral care of the afflicted, the needy, and the imprisoned; the pastoral care of migrants and refugees; just structures in the parish; stewardship; and the greater understanding of the Church’s teaching on social justice.
Members:
Fr. Jeffrey Hennes
Education Committee
The Catholic Education Committee is to assist the parish pastoral council in fostering the educational aspect of the pastoral mission of the parish, which includes evangelization, adult education, catechetics, the Catholic
school (if there be one in the parish), missionary activity, and ecumenism. If a Catholic high school serves the parish, it, too, would fall within the concern of the Catholic Education Committee, without prejudice to any other consultative body which has particular responsibility for the pastoral activity in the Catholic high school.
Members:
Fr. Jeffrey Hennes
