Otober 3, 2010

Minutes of the meeting of the Diocesan Commission on the Family held on Oct. `13, 2010 hosted by the Vicariate of San Antonio de Padua held at PCJ Parish BF Parañaque/.

The vicariate meeting was attended/represented by the ff. :

Bro.Allen/Duy Reyes (1) Holy Family,
Bro.Che Lastica (3) Our Lady of the Abandoned South
Bo. Al & Sis. Edna Hermoso (4) St. Joseph
Bro. Dave & Marlyn Ordoñez (5) St. Martin de Porres
Bro.Paeng & Sis.Nancy Barcelona (6) Sta. Rita de Cascia
Bro. Zoilo & SisConnie Gabriel (7) San Antonio de Padua

Formation/Admin:
Willy & Aleth Hernandez
Rey & Mel Sangalang

Absent:
Bro. Gerry/Zeny Mallillin (2) Our Lady of the Abandoned -North

Opening prayer by Bro. Zoilo.

Father Lambert expressed gratitude and acknowledge the presence of Bro. Willy and Sis. Aleth invited purposely to have a despedida with the body. For everyone to express a few words, or give pabaon ng ala ala.

Father Lambert stressed that after the reading and approval of minutes of the previous meeting, will proceed to the evaluation of the year’s activity of the DCOF as part of the agenda ( as notified via SMS during the day).

Proceeded with the reading of the minutes of the previous minutes of the meeting dated Sept 2, 2010, with few amendments, moved for its approval by Sis. Aleth and seconded by Bro. Zoilo.

For record purposes (on the amendment) it was reiterated that the vicariate updates shall be submitted/distributed on a half or a page during the DCOF meeting instead of verbalizing them. Other diocese concern may be recited orally

In addition limited copies of the amended minutes of July 22, 2010 were distributed with a note that the same shall be forwarded via email.

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Arising from the minutes:
The date of DCOF meeting which was previously set to 2nd. Wednesday of the month was moved to change to meeting date based on the set monthly meeting of the vicariates as follows:

Holy Family 2nd. Tuesday , St. Joseph, last Tuesday, St. Martin de Porres (not fixed yet), San Antonio de Padua, 2nd. Monday, Sta. Rita de Cascia, 2nd. Tues. Ola 2nd. Thursday.

Therefore. It was unanimously agreed and resolved that the DCOF meeting shall be every 4th Wednesday of the month.

On the portion that “ Fr. Lambert reiterated to secretaries to prepare the policies, duties and responsibilities regarding Vicariate Coordinators”, Bro. Che submitted the draft of the modified duties and responsibilities extracted from April 7, 2000 resolution of the PPLM .The same shall be included to the agenda and to be tackled on the next meeting.

Further,per Fr. Lambert, it was put to a resolution that the DCOF member shall have a term of 3 years, (to be commissioned by the Bishop) and stays with DCOF even after a change of position or membership in his/her particular parish.A certification to that effect can be presented by the member to new priest of their parish for information. That will be concurred by the DCOF Clergy Chair and coordinated with the Vicar Forane..

Agenda:

Proceeded with the individual evaluation of the year’s DCOF activities, verbally recited by each and everyone,Sis. Connie started with her valedictory address followed by all, copies of each vicariate evaluation are agreed to be provided via email by everyone to be attached to this minutes for concise presentation ( see attachments )

It was put into record that it was only the 2nd attendance of couple Bro. Dave & Sis. Marlyn Ordoñez, being the newly appointed vicariate coordinator of St. Martin de Porres

It was announced/recorded that the next meeting with the presence of Fr. Lambert shall be Dec.13, 2010 at Pilar Village clubhouse, together with the Holy Family Vicariate, to be attended by the DCOF vicariate coordinators with their COF members ( 10 or more subject to confirmation of attendees). That will be the Christmas party of the DCOF and at the same time Fr. Lambert stated that he will announce the name/s of lay Coordinator & deputy of DCOF, in line with the structuring of the DCOF.


On setting the direction of the 2011 to have a common direction, understanding and journey,( of which Fr. Lambert will confer with the bishop/council) the body selected priority goals to focus out of the 15 DCOF goals, summarized as follows:

1. Goal#1 formally Structure the COF Diocese, Vicariate & parish.
2. Goal #2. Pre Cana –
3. Goal # 3 Counseling
4.Goal # 6 Advocacy
5.Goal # 13 Migrant
6.Goal #15 NFP.

to be cascaded to vicariates/parishes.

For the purpose of recording to this minute, the body was informed by Fr. Lambert that vicariate updates shall be submitted in a half or a page instead of verbally render a report per vicariate to save meeting time. The other concern relating to diocese can still be verbally mentioned.

Farewell and thanksgiving:
Everyone had expressed words of appreciation and kinds words to Bro. Willy & Sis. Aleth. In return the couple had also said their piece to the body.

With a pray over to couple and a closing prayer by Fr. Lambert, the meeting was adjourned at10:45pm


Notes taken by the Secretaries Reviewed and approved
Allen/Duy, Che Fr. Lambert






Holy Family Vicariate Evaluation:

It was a big leap on the vicariate to have an NFP Center as part of the Diocesan Center for the Family (DCF) Located at TS Cruz San Isidro Labrador Chapel-Holy Family Parish through the effort of Fr. Lambert of establishing the DCF. Moving toward to reinforcing the NFP ministry and accomplishing goal #15 of the Diocese..

Achieved positive results on the goals of the DCOF through the vicariate and continue moving toward to focus on the written goals for the use of VHF ie. NFP, Pre Cana, Post Cana ME, Senior Citizen, Migrant and counseling.



























Vicariate Report As of Oct. 12, 2010

Vicariate to focus on 6 goals for COF for 2010
1. NFP 2. Pre Cana3. Post Cana 4. Senior Citizen 5.Migrant Families 6. Counseling

1.NFP- in the process of gathering all the NFP workers of the vicariate to fill up the vacant structure of the vicariate. The Vicariate has existing NFP center to use in the Diocese Center for the Family in TS Cruz-San Isidro Labrador Chapel-Holy Family Parish. The lead parish on this is Mary Mother of the Church assisted by San Isidro Labrador. ( Buhay Pagtatangol)

2.Pre-Cana- the various modules of all parishes are being studied, evaluated and standardized to come up with a common program for the vicariate. The vicariate is leading toward the conduct of vicariate pre-cana to address the need of all Holy Family vicariate parishes with the cooperation of all COF workers. The lead parish is Mary Immaculate. (Buhay Pagmamahal)

3..Post Cana -M.E.- to continue the OLPP led Vicariate ME which has its 6th ME since its adoption. The point parish this time is OLPP after the routation through other parishes, Holy Family and San Isidro. (Buhay Pagkalinga/Paghihilom)
Parish yet to host and lead are MIP, SILP, MMCP and FWP


4..Senior Citizens– continue to move on inviting senior citizen to attend parish cof activities. (Buhay Pagkalinga). Ideally to have at least a monthly fellowship/meeting. All parishes are moving toward identifying and linking to various Senior Citizens org. in the vicariate.
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5.Migrant Families – in the stage of doing the announcement on parish masses and the blessing of migrant families during family masses and other Sunday masses depending on the schedule chosen by the parish cof.. The idea is help on the spiritual formation of migrant families. Modules are available from COF. Most likely to be led by Holy Family Parish. ( Buhay Pagdarasal)

6.Counseling- the vicariate has the facility of a Diocese center for the family which has regular worker/s manning the office. All the parishes have assigned counselors for this purpose on rotation basis. The vicariate is aiming to continue producing more recruits in the coming year/s. (Buhay Paghihiloml