Top Rejected Parish Core Values for St Charles

St Charles Church ^ | April 1, 2009

[Alex Murphy]

Sam Alves models a t-shirt showing the parish's approved core values.

No doubt you recite the parish's core values daily after reading about them in the bulletin, hearing them in Fr. Creedon homilies and noticing them tattooed on the person in the next pew. Our parish's young people are even reported to be greeting each other by shouting "WSECN," the easy-to-remember acronym of the core values.

Of course, all of this didn't happen by accident. What you're seeing is the product of careful evaluation and study. Many of the core values submitted by parishioners and other community members sounded fine at first. It wasn't until we started printing the top 5 submissions onto t-shirts that we noticed some of the suggestions didn't quite meet parish standards.

Can you tell why these core values were rejected?

Welcoming
International
Celebrating
Community-based
Astounding
Nurturing
Spiritual

 

Saintly
Traditional
Atruistic
Godly
Nurturing
Eucharist
Stewardship

Former Council President Mimi Fitzgerald presents an option for parish core values to the Core Values Committee. Her proposal was narrowly defeated.

Devotional
Outreach
Nurturing
Understanding
Teaching
Sumptuous

God-fearing
Unceasing
I should do more
Loving conditionally
Troubled

Vocations
Apathy
Tyranny
Intolerant
Compliant
Absolute
Non-negotiable

Indifference

 

At one impasse during the evaluation period, our pastor put forth his own suggestion for the parish's core values:

Celebrating
Redeeming
Entertaining
Eire-loving
Demanding Justice
Outreach
Nurturing

 

We even asked the Chancery to review our drafts and received this response:

Loving
Outreach
Vocations
Education
Religion
Devotions
Eucharist

 

Now you know how the parish's core values came to be. So go out there and have yourself a WSECN day.

[dangus]

“WELCOMING persons of all races, cultures, and economic strata.”

At least he clarified. Usually “welcoming” refers to welcoming gays.

[dangus]

Saintly
Traditional
Atruistic
Godly
Nurturing
Eucharist
Stewardship

Fess up: Who really wrote this? Where did you get THAT from?

[dangus]

OH, WOW...
That’s on the parish web site, as an April Fool’s joke! Most people wouldn’t know that “STAGNES” refers to the parish of St. Agnes, St. Charles more orthodox “rival.”

[Titanites]

OH, WOW... That’s on the parish web site, as an April Fool’s joke!