Programs:
Newly Appointed Pastors:
Session II: Developing and Leading a Vital Parish

The second session of the Newly Appointed Pastors program focuses on the interpersonal skills that pastors need to develop and lead a vital parish. Here is a sample of the four-day workshop at Saint Meinrad.

Sample Workshop Schedule

Day One

2:30 – 4:30 pm: Registration and free time
5:00 pm: Evening Prayer with the monks (optional)
5:30 pm: Social & Dinner
7:30 pm: Welcome and Orientation
8:30 pm: Movie (optional)

Day Two

8:00 am: Morning Prayer with seminarians (optional)
8:30 am: Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 am: Program Session: Parish Revitalization I
10:00 – 10:15 am: Break
10:15 – 11:15 am: Program Session: Parish Revitalization II
11:30 am: Mass with seminarians
Noon: Lunch with seminarians
1:00 – 3:30 pm: Personal time
3:30 – 4:45 pm: Discussion Sessions (optional)
  1. Pastoring More Than One Parish
  2. Hispanic Ministry
5:00 pm: Evening Prayer with the monks (optional)
5:30 pm: Social
6:00 pm: Dinner
6:30 pm: Eucharistic Adoration with seminarians (optional)
7:30 – 8:30 pm: Program Session: Parish Revitalization III

Day Three

8:00 am: Morning Prayer with seminarians (optional)
8:30 am: Breakfast
9:00 – 10:00 am: Program Session: Improving the Effectiveness of Your Parish Communication Tools
10:00 – 10:15 am: Break
10:15 – 11:15 am: Program Session: Improving the Effectiveness of Your Parish Communication Tools, Part 2
11:30 am: Mass with seminarians
Noon: Lunch with seminarians
1:00 – 3:30 pm: Personal time
3:30 – 4:45 pm: Program Session: Using Volunteers Well
5:00 pm: Evening Prayer with monks (optional)
5:30 pm: Social
6:00 pm: Dinner
7:00 – 8:15 pm: Program Session: Using Volunteers Well, Part 2
8:30 pm: UnStable campus pub (optional)

Day Four

7:30 am: Concelebrated Monastery Mass (optional)
8:00 am: Breakfast
9:00 – 10:15 am: Program Session: A Sharing of Policies and Guidelines: Baptisms, Weddings & Funerals
10:30 – 11:45 am: Program Session: Simple Cooking – Entertaining at the Rectory
Noon: Lunch (optional)
Often it will be suitable, or indeed necessary, for bishops of neighboring dioceses…to come together and join forces to be able to offer initiatives for permanent formation that are better organized and more interesting. (PDV, p150)
Pope John Paul II