Do you know someone active in ministry who would be a great lay leader?
Nominations must be submitted by Sunday, March 9, 2025.
Our Parish strives to empower lay women and men with co-responsibility for leadership of most aspects of parish life and to develop parish leaders from among our membership. Like every aspect of parish life, our leadership structure promotes active discipleship among our parishioners.
The Parish Council is the top-level lay leadership group within the Parish, providing a vision and long-range planning framework for the Parish and establishing goals and directions for the Parish as a whole. It works closely with the Pastor to oversee and coordinate the overall process of lay leadership, empowering, aligning, and holding accountable the four Parish Commissions, directing the decision-making to appropriate groups or individuals when necessary, and working with the Pastor in handling Parish crises.
Supported by the Parish Council and parish staff, all ministries and programs are organized under one of four working groups of parishioners. Our Commissions give direction to all aspects of Parish life: Community, Faith Formation, Mercy & Justice, and Worship. Each Commission sets both short-term and long-term goals and action plans that further the Mission of the Parish: to seek to find God in all things by deepening our faith and listening with discerning and joyful hearts; and to walk with the excluded and care for the Earth, our common home, by actively serving the poor and living social and environmental justice.
Community Commission works to create a welcoming and inclusive community where parishioners can build lasting relationships. It introduces parishioners - new and old -to one another by providing a balanced calendar of simple, accessible activities, events, and opportunities to serve and celebrate with one another.
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Faith Formation works to establish a comprehensive formation vision for the parish. It fosters collaboration across all groups and individuals involved in the sacraments, as well as prayer and spirituality groups, and our new Youth Ministry program.
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Mercy & Justice
In response to God’s love and Jesus’ invitation to discipleship, addressing social justice and systemic change is part of our mission. Informed by Catholic Social Teaching, St. Ignatius provides opportunities to participate actively in the promotion and implementation of social and environmental justice.
Worship Commission gives direction to the liturgical life of the Parish in the celebration of the Eucharist and other liturgical celebrations. They strive to engage as many parishioners as possible in this work to ensure that liturgy a the work of our community's hands, is joyful, beautiful, rooted in tradition and casts a vision for what is yet to come.
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