Survey for the Synod on Synodality

Survey for the Synod on SynodalityDiocese of Charleston Website Team2021-10-13T14:57:29-04:00

All of us are here because we have responded to an invitation — an invitation from Pope Francis and the Vatican to participate in the Church as it moves into its third millennium. As you saw in this short video, our bishop is also invites you to please consider taking the survey honestly and openly.

Please mark your ethnicity:

White

Hispanic/Latino

Black or African American

Asian and Pacific Islander

Native American

Other

Age Range:

1) Our parish has many groups and activities that allow parishioners and newcomers to feel welcome and involved in a community of faith.

2) Our parish planning includes ways to reach and attract youth, young adults, singles, members of minority communities, widows/widowers, divorced and has found ways to foster their inclusion.

3) We also have specific ways to reach out to those who are not active or have become less active in our parish.

4) We are aware of Catholic social teaching and Church position on moral and spiritual matters. As Catholics, we are encouraged to voice our views about life issues, social concerns, quality education, family, immigration, the environment and other issues that might be important topics in the news or our local community.

5) Our parish offers vibrant liturgies and encourages parishioners to serve in a variety of liturgical ministries such as lectors, acolytes, musicians, cantors and choirs, ushers, extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist. Our spiritual formation is further reflected in devotions, retreats, and days of recollections.

6) At our parish, people are aware of their baptismal call to reach out in faith to evangelize in their everyday lives as Jesus did.

7) Our parish, along with the Diocese, alerts members to possibilities for dialogue by respectful listening and sharing of ideas and values that have to do with race, religion, human rights, immigration, the economy, conflict resolution and the environment.

8) Our parish encourages members to become involved in conversation and special civic projects with members of other faith communities to support interfaith relations and to maximize cooperation on causes to support the common good.

9) In our parish, we have learned how to gather input from members and to help build consensus so that decisions about scheduling, projects, parish activities, and local priorities are not simply seen as “top-down” decisions.

10) We feel we are consulted in diocesan decisions to seek new ways to involve parishioners, to seek assistance and ideas from beyond our local community so that people have a real sense of ownership in what happens to them.

11) Our parishioners listen to the action and impulses of the Holy Spirit and have received some instruction on the difference between decision-making in the corporate or political mode and genuine discernment.

12) Parish leaders and clergy seem open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit, welcome it when parishioners come forth with ideas that seem Spirit-led, and find means to engage other members of the faith community in consideration and deliberation through communal discernment.

13) Members of our parish are open to appropriate change and are committed to on-going formation, not only personal but communal. Members have a sense that their voice and their participation make a difference, and many are eager to be even more involved.

14) Our parishioners understand that Stewardship, embraced as a way of life, increases our awareness of how God draws us to Himself and how He is making life-giving connections with us.

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