St Alban’s Catholic Church

Macclesfield

Find out more about Local Pastoral Areas on the Shrewsbury Diocese Website

 

Local Pastoral Area (LPA)

What is St Alban’s Pastoral Area?

St Alban’s Pastoral Area is comprised of the six parishes listed above as a geographical area of the Shrewsbury Diocese which, since 2007, has been arranged into 26 Pastoral Areas.

How does this arrangement function?

Through a Pastoral Area Team, consisting of the Parish Priest and an elected representative from each parish, a deacon elected by his colleagues and a teacher and a catechist appointed by the Bishop.

What is the role of the LPA Team?

The role of each Pastoral Area Team is to support its constituent parishes in the changed and changing circumstances that they are facing now and will continue to face  in the future. In his initial address to Pastoral Area Teams in 2007 Bishop Brian’s hope was that they would work to create effective structures for co-operation on pastoral and catechetical matters and that each LPA would increasingly become a community of communities.

The Mission Statement of St Alban’s LPA is as follows:

The following four priority areas have been identified for the LPA Team to address in the coming year.

· Emergency Sunday/holiday cover Mass provision across the LPA

· LPA Sacramental Requirements

· Effective structures for supporting parish life

· Effective methods of communication across the LPA

If you would like to know more you can contact either:

Anna Hughes –St Alban’s parish representative

through the Pigeonholes at the back of Church or via the Parish Council or on 01625 614406, aga_hughes@lineone.net

Kathy Hunnybun - LPA Catechist representative / LPA Co-Chair

on 01625 617025 or at kathyhunnybun@hotmail.com

 

 

 

St Alban's Pastoral Area Team members are committed to work together in a spirit of charity, understanding and sensitivity, sharing all resources to build, develop and support the wider community, in order to provide for the liturgical, sacramental, pastoral, spiritual and social needs of all people within the Local Pastoral Area.

Mass times around the LPA

LPA Report of Activity - Year 4: 2010-11