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MOMENTUM The Accompaniment Symposium Faithfully Ministering to and with Youth and Families in the Year Ahead MOMENTUM The Accompaniment Symposium Creating a Parish Culture of Accompaniment Dr. Tracey Lamont, PhD Brian Henritze, MAT, MBA

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MOMENTUM

Faithfully Ministering to and with Youth and Families in the Year Ahead

The Accompaniment Symposium

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Creating a Parish Culture of Accompaniment

  • Dr. Tracey Lamont, PhD

Brian Henritze, MAT, MBA

MOMENTUM

The Accompaniment Symposium

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Part 1 (Brian)

  • Define Christian Culture and Organizational Culture
  • Identify 5 Steps for Shifting Your Parish Culture
  • Identify 3 Ways for Helping Young People Act as the

Protagonist of their Faith / Partner in the Church’s Mission Part 2 (Tracey)

  • Implications of a Meaningful Community of Accompaniment
  • Church Gathered: Purposes and Actions of this Community
  • Church Sent: What Does our New Community Do?
  • Encounters with God in Others
  • How is your Parish a Good Neighbor in the Community?

OVERVIEW

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“Christian Culture is born from the awareness of the centrality of Jesus Christ and of his Gospel, which transforms the life

  • f humanity.”
  • Directory for Catechesis, 102

“… a new understanding is needed of Christian culture, a culture of encounter, which has the ability to unify, allowing the Gospel to unleash forces of true humanity, peace, and justice.”

  • Directory for Catechesis, 103

Christian Culture

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Organizational culture is the collection of values, expectations, and practices that guide and inform the actions of all members in an organization. Think of it as the collection of traits that make your parish what it is.

Organizational Culture

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Five Steps for Shifting Your Parish Culture

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  • Core Values are not superfluous
  • They should be relationally driven

Identify Your Parish Core Values

STEP #1

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  • They should epitomize Christian culture
  • They should be mission driven
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  • Foster a Spirit of Synodality
  • Influence > Authority

Refocus Leadership

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  • Clearly define roles and expectations
  • Allow space for various leadership styles
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  • What’s working well?
  • What needs improvement?

Critically Assess Your Parish

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  • Identify 3-5 strengths to leverage
  • Identify 3-5 areas of change
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  • What your values look like in action
  • Behavior is what the uninitiated sees

Link Behaviors to Objectives

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  • Includes personal and parish behaviors
  • Behaviors influence mindsets
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  • Ask if you are on the right track
  • Ask what your people are looking for

Constantly Ask and Listen

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  • Listen to what people are saying/not saying
  • Listen to the Holy Spirit’s guidance
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Three Ways to Help Young People Act as Protagonists

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As Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, invite young people to share with you the events they are going through and help them to recognize how those events are shaping their life and their faith.

Help them to Recognize

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As Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, help young people to see how the events of their life can be interpreted in the light of sacred scripture.

Help them to Interpret

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As Jesus did on the road to Emmaus, do not force or coerce a young person into a particular decisions, rather allow them to freely choose how they will move forward in their life as a disciple of Christ.

Allow them to Choose

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Implications of a Community That Accompanies

A Church Gathered and Sent

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Typical Parish

  • Staff--ministries
  • New Evangelization

How We Gather Matters

  • Peter Block Community: The structure of belonging
  • Charles Vogl: The Art of Community: Seven principles for belonging

Church: Gathered & Sent

Gathered

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What does it Look Like ?

”Challenge: To Transform the isolation and

self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole” (Block, 1) Behaviors (Curriculum of Church)

  • Implicit
  • Explicit &
  • Null Behaviors

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Church Sent

What Does a Beloved Community Do?

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Power of Story:

Accompaniment: Openness to God’s Presence

  • “IT”
  • Propels Us Out
  • Our experience of God in Others
  • We are Changed - called to Action
  • We Are Church Sent

AN ENCOUNTER WITH GOD

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Examples:

  • Mark 7: 24-30
  • Fr. Greg Boyle
  • My Story

What does this all mean?

Encountering God in and with Others

We Are Changed

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  • 1. What first steps will you make to transform your parish into

a community that accompanies young people?

  • 2. How have you been changed by a young person’s story?

How, then, are you (and your community) called to respond, called to ACT in light of your encounter?

What Will You Do?

Questions

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