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Adult
Religious Education - arrange, publicize
and host spiritual programs and experiences. If the need should
arise we might expand this committee in the future to include religious
education for teens and children.
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Altar
Serving - Provide
altar servers at Masses and other functions in the Cathedral. Train
people who want to become servers.
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Cathedral
Securities -
Provide assistance to Law Enforcement personnel in controlling parking and
traffic at the Cathedral complex during special events.
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Environment
and Art - A
multi-tasked committee that will maintain the Cathedral's altars, altar
cloths, candles, vestments, and flower arrangements. Maintain,
decorate and prepare for special occasions at the Cathedral and the
Cathedral Community Center, the offices of Cathedral Ministries and the
Rectory.
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Eucharistic
Ministers - Create
a regular schedule of ministers to distribute the Body and Blood of Christ
at each Mass. Take Communion to shut-ins and hospital patients. Facilitate
training for people who want to enter this ministry. The activities
of this committee will be under the personal direction of Fr. Mike.
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Fashion
Show
- Work on our annual fashion show by helping acquire a site, working
on publicity, coordinating printing, selling tickets and chances,
decorating, hosting, arranging for presenters of fashions, etc. This
is a very important committee as it has raised substantial funds for the
Cathedral.
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Garden
- Create and maintain
year-round gardens on the grounds of the Cathedral and the rectory; to be
coordinated with Diocesan maintenance dept.
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Gift
Shop - Purchase
approved religious articles and material for display and sale in a
religious gift shop tentatively scheduled to be included in the new
Cathedral Community Hall. This gift shop would be open for certain,
not all, functions in the Community Hall and would be open after Mass on
Sundays and perhaps Saturday evenings. Inventory control and reconciliation
of sales is part of the ministry. Perhaps the making of rosaries can
be part of this ministry.
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Golf
Tournament - Work
on arrangements and preparations for the Annual Cathedral Golf Tournament
that may prove to be an important source of revenue for the many Cathedral
improvement projects already being planned.
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Hospitality
- Prepare and serve refreshments for appropriate special occasions at
Cathedral, Community Hall, Rectory and Cathedral Ministry office.
Participate in the clean-up following the vent. This committee would
plan and stage parties, functions and/or picnics for our own Cathedral
Ministry membership.
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House
of Charity -
Assist the Cathedral in attaining their annual House of Charity goal by
soliciting donations and/or planning and sponsoring some special
money-raising event. This committee provides an opportunity to be
especially creative.
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Liturgy
- Plan for weekly Mass, special Masses, Benedictions, Rosaries, Novenas
and other Liturgical events in the Cathedral. This committee will
work closely with Father Mike on these events.
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Membership
- Solicit new
membership for Cathedral Ministries.
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Music
Ministry - Plan
the hymns and music for Masses and other Liturgical events, recruit vocalists
and musicians, plan music for special Masses, coordinate and sponsor the
annual Jazz Vespers service. This committee will work closely with
Father Mike.
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Newsletter
- Create and distribute to the membership an informative and entertaining
newsletter that can serve as a meeting notice. There may be a way to
combine this newsletter with the weekly church bulletin.
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Office
Volunteer -
Provide volunteer clerical help needed in Ministry office and
Rectory. Provide envelope addressers and stuffers for mass mailings.
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Pro-Life
- Keep up to date on issues affecting the Church's Pro-Life mission.
Connect with major, Catholic and ecumenical Pro-Life organizations to
ascertain which program and events would be of interest to our
organization, liaison with Liturgy Committee to ensure that Pro-Life
initiatives are made part of our worship when appropriate, plan for a day
in the future when our organization might support a house for unmarried
mothers-to-be to ensure that their babies will be born and, hopefully, enter
a holy and nurturing living environment.
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Publicity
- Do everything
possible to let both the Catholic community and the community-at-large
know the who, what, when , and where of the Cathedral Ministry
mission. Be a resource for the other committees in the Ministry who
need publicity for their events by either assigning one of our members to
do their publicity or simply being a resource for that committee's own
publicity person.
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Special
Events - An
extremely important committee that handles all of the arrangements and
logistics for events that are either annual or one-time in nature and does
not have a committee of its own. Examples of these events are the
annual Mass for Firefighters/EMS; the annual Mass for Law Enforcement,;
Annual Cathedral Reunion Mass (especially reaching out to Camden Catholic High
School alumni, Cathedral Academy alumni, St. Mary's Grammar School alumni,
and/or former parishioners of the Cathedral) and other similar
events. This committee will work closely with other Ministry
committees such as Publicity, Hospitality, Liturgy, Music, Altar Servers,
Ushers and Greeters, Eucharistic Ministers and others in order to
accomplish their mission.
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Ushers
and Greeters -
Usher and greet at the regular and special Masses and other events in the
Cathedral. Greeters may be utilized for other special functions.
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Web
Site - Combine
Cathedral Ministries and the Cathedral under one web site and keep it
updated and at all times. Establish links between our site and other
worthwhile Catholic and educational sites after getting Father Mike's
approval.
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