Feedback from the Townhall Meeting is coming in, and last night at our Committee Meeting, we had a chance to look over the first suggestions submitted on the Pre-Design Questionnaires. If you haven’t had a chance to tell us your ideas, please do so quickly.
Many of the suggestions can be grouped into eight hot button areas. These are (in no particular order):
- Seating and Pews (old versus new, padded versus wood) and Kneelers *
- Bells
- Handicapped Access *
- Art and Statuary
- The Cry Room
- Floor Covering (carpet versus smooth)
- Facilities and Location for the Choir *
- Temperatures and Comfort Systems *
The good news is that the committee is addressing many of these (those starred with an asterisk) directly in our first order goals. The others listed above are on our radar.
Please let us know if we’ve missed anything. We’ll be posting more on each of these topics, and any others that we may have missed.
The committee is committed to listening to everyone. However, we’ve had a few suggestions to address things that are outside of the scope of the remodeling project. Unfortunately, your Remodeling Committee won’t be able to do anything about:
- The content of the hymnals
- The use of Gregorian Chant during the Mass
- The amount of paper towel dispensed in the bathrooms by the gym
- Mass Times
- Expanding or eliminating the use of the Tridentine Latin Mass
- Parishioners talking in church
These are all valid concerns with life in our parish, but under our current charter, these are not issues that the committee can tackle.
“Expanding or eliminating the use of the Tridentine Latin Mass”
As far as I know we don’t use the Tridentine Mass do we? Hooray…problem solved! To the list of issues you can resolve, I would add lighting.
I believe we do on the first Friday of every month.
Will these hot-button issues be discussed at the next Townhall meeting or is the RC going to make decisions about them just based on the submitted questionnaires? How long do we have to turn them in?
Will comments made on the blog be taken into consideration along with questionnaire answers?
Will these hot-button issues be discussed at the next Townhall meeting or is the RC going to make decisions about them just based on the submitted questionnaires?
Will we talk about the issue or the solution? That depends on the issue. For example – handicapped access is one of our First Principles. From the beginning, the committee has heard that we need to do more than meet the code requirements; we need to create an environment where all feel welcome. That principle is on all of our minds as we start considering schematic designs. We plan to talk about how we could provide that access when we present some design ideas at our next Townhall in June.
Other issues like art and statuary are still on the table, other than the fact that we know we want space for each. We know we want shrine space, but (for example) we haven’t committed to St. Dismas over St. Olaf. (Go Olaf!)
How long do we have to turn them in?
Please make sure that we have the completed questionnaires by the close of business on Monday, 21 April 2008. These are the same questionnaires distributed at the 8 April meeting.
Will comments made on the blog be taken into consideration along with questionnaire answers?
Yes! At the committee meeting on 15 April, I shared an 11 page compilation of comments from the blog. We’re already considering them.
Troy
Thanks Troy.
I’m glad Blog comments are being taken into consideration – I prefer leaving my input here.
Again, great job with the Blog! I’m sure it’s quite a bit of work.
I’ll have to read up on St. Olaf 🙂
You are welcome!
Here are a few helpers on my hypothetical example of hagiography:
Saint Olaf II
Memorial: 29 July
Son of King Harald of Norway. Viking pirate. Convert, baptised in 1010.
Patron of: carvers; kings; Norway
http://saints.sqpn.com/sainto07.htm
Saint Dismas
Also known as The Good Thief
Memorial: 25 March (date derived from traditon that this was the calendar date of the Crucifixion, though the Passover and Easter celebrations move from year to year)
One of the thieves crucified with Jesus, the other being traditionally known as Gestas; Dismas is the one who rebuked the other, and asked for Christ’s blessing.
Patron of: criminals; undertakers; Merizo, Guam
http://saints.sqpn.com/saintd11.htm
Hi Exairguy,
I’m pretty sure we have a Novus Ordo Latin Mass at Holy Trinity. Close but not the same.
At tonight’s committee meeting, Father Hilton confirmed that the first Friday Latin Mass is the Novus Ordo form, not Tridentine.
Troy
Whoops. Slipzies. I thought they were both the same thing. I guess I’ll have to find out what the difference is now.