Diagnostics

Getting Started:  Phase I
Two Months

Complete Diagnosis

1. Census
   1. Help parish conduct census, to get up-to-date contact and attendance information.
2. Survey
3. Is the parish meeting parishioners’ needs?
   1. Are the liturgies holy, inspiring, moving parishioners to the transcendence?
   2. Does the parish provide them with a strong spiritual experience?
   3. Does the parish help them live a better Catholic life?
4. Demographics
   1. From the census, we can look at the ages of parishioners, especially of active parishioners. 
   2. We can predict future participation and income streams, if the parish maintains the status quo.
5. Inactive parishioners: we have plans for immediate and personal evangelization.

Review of Parish Ministries, Spiritual Activities, Social Events

1. Ministries
   1. Examination of all parish ministries and who is involved. 
   2. Are they meeting their stated mission statements? 
   3. Are they evangelizing & recruiting new members?
2. Spiritual Activities
   1. We will examine the parish’s spiritual events, novenas, adorations, holy hours, forty hours, stations of the cross, Bible study, inter alia. 
   2. We will look at attendance and how they are advertised and run.
3. Social Events
   1. Social events are important for parish cohesion. 
   2. We will examine the levels of Catholic identity and evangelization within social events.

Review of Evangelization and Catechism in Religious Education

1. Students
   1. We will examine levels of catechistical knowledge and evangelization of students in the classes.
   2. Do they go to Mass?
   3. We can then create or recommend a catechism and evangelism plan for teachers and administrators, so they can properly catechize and evangelize in class
2. Parents
   1. We will examine levels of catechistical knowledge and evangelization pf parents.
   2. Do they go to Mass?
   3. We can then create a catechism and evangelism plan for teachers and administrators to use, and/or create ministries where this is a priority with parents.
3. Religious Educators
   1. We will examine levels of catechistical knowledge and evangelization of all educators, especially religious educators in the classes. (We can do this with parish staff also).
   2. Do they go to Mass?
   3. We can then create a catechism and evangelism plan for educators and staff to follow in their own lives.

Finances

1. While we follow the steps below, we will bring an immediate, emergency plan to make up for some revenues lost during the lock-down and bring those who attended Mass before the virus back to Mass.
2. Review of sources of parish income and expenses.
   1. We chart the future revenue streams and expenses if parish remains status quo, based on census.
3. Are parish fundraisers effective?
4. Does the parish make good use of community sponsorship?
5. We can recommend a complete audit.
6. This will set the ability to plan and set goals to increase populations and contributions in Phase II.