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Jan 10, 2007

  St. Peter Catholic Diocese for Chaldeans & Assyrians

DIOCESAN PROSPECT FOR 2007

 

Our Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle must accept wholeheartedly and without hesitation the challenges of continuous growth, as needed in its fifth year of establishment.  The areas of prospected challenge are:

1) The implementation of the Liturgical Reform, as it has been requested by the Chaldean Synodal decision.  A comprehensive and sustained effort will be needed: a) to provide pertinent printed and audiovisual liturgical material; b) to form and train all levels of ministers and servants of the Eucharistic Celebration; c) to instruct participant congregations and sodalities about the changes in liturgical ceremonies and the reasons for them.

2) The completion of the designing phase, in order to submit a building permit application, for an Educational Center, to be constructed on the St. Peter’s Cathedral property, adjacent to the social Hall. The need for such a facility is becoming urgent, given the continuous increase of the Chaldean population in San Diego County and the inadequacy of the actual available space for educational programs.

3) The establishment of a small television studio inside the Media-center building at St. Peter’s, that will allow us to record and broadcast directly to our people, who are deprived of a medium so pivotal to every collective purpose in the modern age.

4) The submittal of a site-plan, already prepared, for obtaining the approval of the city of Sacramento to build a new Parish, office, and social hall, for our community in that city.

5) The submittal of another set of site-plan to build a shrine-church in the diocesan monastery of St. George, in the county of Riverside, so that it may be developed into a parochial church.

6) The purchase of a property that may serve to become a parochial center for our community in Las Vegas. 

7) The arrangement of a suitable building to serve for a weekly celebration of Holy Liturgy in the city of Poway, having there a sizeable community in need of stable and local ministry.

This is quite an ambitious prospect!  Nevertheless, we trust the holy saints and angels, and so many men of good will, for the fulfillment of the above-listed pastoral needs of the People of God.