Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of consultation sessions. The purpose of this consultation round was to capture parishioners\u2019 reaction to Cardinal John Dew\u2019s request to reduce the number of churches. It was not to get feedback specifically on the answer to this challenge.
\nAs you might expect there has been a great deal of feedback which we reviewed at last week\u2019s Pastoral Council meeting. Given the extensive and varied nature of the feedback we did not attempt to distill it into simple ideas, although we did identify some themes such as:<\/p>\n
As we move into the next phase of the consultation, the Council has decided to make the feedback from the consultation sessions available to all parishioners via the website<\/a>. We ask you to take time to look at it and reflect on it. We have not included all individual written submissions, but these can be made available also if parishioners wish to see them and those who wrote them are happy for us to do so.<\/p>\n Next steps<\/strong><\/span> Stephen Neal<\/em> Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of consultation sessions. The purpose of this consultation round was to capture parishioners\u2019 reaction to Cardinal John Dew\u2019s request to Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5117\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellingtonsouthcatholic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWe now move into the phase of beginning to formulate possible solutions.
\nThe first part of that will be a Parish session on Saturday 3rd August at St Anne\u2019s Hall, from 1:30pm to 4:30pm.
\nPlease mark this date in your diaries and let the Parish Office know if you will be attending.<\/p>\n
\nParish Council Chair<\/strong><\/p>\nCONSULTATION SESSIONS FEEDBACK<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"