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The COAT Explained / VISION•MISSION

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Between two gold mallets (from Visayan Palo) on a blue field, is a pale rayonne (PALO RADIANTE, that is emitting rays) of gold.

This “PALO RADIANTE” suggests in Spanish the name of the Archdiocese and its Titular feasts, that of the Transfiguration. “Palo es une peiza honorable o de primer orden que se coloca en sentido vertical, en el centro del escudo, desde el jefe a la punta, y ocupa la tercera parte del mismo. Se Ilama asi porque es el simbolo de lalanza del caballero…” (ESPASA tomo 27, p. 1107, culumna I)

On the pale, a green mountain of three peaks drawn in the Italian heraldical way. This symbolizes the low Tabor and three peaks the three personages seen by the Apostles during the Transfiguration.

The red fleur-de-lis is a “ symbol of the HUMAN NATURE OF OUR SAVIOR” (Webber, CHURCH SYMBOLISM, 2nd Revised Edition, 1938, palte VII, fig.15) which was transfigured.

The three blue tents suggests the TRIA TABERNACULA proposed by St. Peter to be built.

THE ARCHDIOCESAN PASTORAL PLAN

Responding the call

“BE A CHURCH OF THE POOR AND A COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES”

A felt need for renewal is indeed very pronounced in the present life of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. This was initially sounded off by the Second Plenary Council and continues to be sounded off from all corners of the archipelago.

A response then has to be made. The response, even if it must start at the individual level has to go beyond into an organizational level. Every parishioner in the archdiocese has to respond to this call but he/she cannot do this alone. We have to act collectively and in the same direction. And in so doing, a blueprint is needed. The Archdiocesan Pastoral Plan is the blueprint.

The Archdiocese of Palo, then realizing that the time is now for the implementation of these changes in the context of its present realities, hereby presents its ARCHDIOCESAN PASTORAL PLAN.

THE VISION

A sense of direction can only be achieved once an organization has an articulated vision statement. A vision serves as the ultimate reason for the existence of an organization. It is an ideal state of being which every member must strive to become even if it may never be attained at all during his/her lifetime.

VISION STATEMENT

We, the people of the Archdiocese of Palo envision to become:
 A people of God, a community of disciples, nourished by God’s word and the Sacraments, witnessing to the gospel values and celebrating the Christ event of liberation for the realization of His kingdom in the Archdiocese.

THE MISSION

Once the communal vision is formulated and expressed, the seeds of desire to reach it is born among the members of the organization. This desire is concretely expressed in the set of values that each member of the archdiocese commit to live by so as to attain the vision. A commitment. therefore, is what one believes in and stands for. In their totality. this commitment spells out the mission of the organization.

Since or vision was achieved after much discernment and prayer, we are confident that it expresses God’s will for us. Our commitment are our response to that will. In this light, therefore. we make this statement.

MISSION STATEMENT

We, the people in the Archdiocese of Palo,
commit to live by the following values:

  • faithfulness and growth in our prayer life;
  • radical openness in living and proclaiming the word of God;
  • celebrating of the sacraments in an authentic and meaningful way;
  • the building, strengthening and sustaining of Christian community life
  • and sharing in diverse forms of service especially for the poor.

THE GOAL

The vision cannot be fully achieved. However, it the members are serious in living out their commitments or mission. it can be closely approximated. In pursuing the common vision, the members usually ask the following questions: What is the organization trying to achieve? What results are we seeking? What precisely are the changes to be introduced in today ’s situation? The response to these questions gives us the total goal of an organization. Goal, therefore, is the direction the members of an organization take to live their commitments in order to reach the vision.

THE GOAL STATEMENT

We, the people of God in the Archdiocese ofPalo, will harness all our strength, efforts and resources to promote spiritual-theological-pastoral renewal in the entire archdiocese towards total human liberation.

THE OBJECTIVES

Since the goal in an abstract expression, it is necessary to delineate in detail the operations of this goal. That which makes the goal operational is called Objective. Goal, therefore, gives the direction. while the objective gives the how to go and reach that direction. Objectives are concrete and they speak of action; they spell out a performance to be done. Those performances or behavior we want to accomplish are called Terminal Performance objectives (TPO); while the specific activities by which we attain that behavior or performance are called Enabling Objectives (EO).

TERMINAL PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

Within the period of five years, overcoming limitations of human and material resources and the attitude of indifference and resistance to change, with the aid of both local and outside support, the Archbishop, priests, religious and laity, committed to build a strong and dynamic local church will promote the spiritual-theological-pastoral renewal in the Archdiocese ofPalo towards total human liberation.

This will be considered accomplished if the following terminal performance objectives are achieved.

  1. A renewed integral evangelization in operative;
  2. The soda—pastoral awareness and involvement among all the agents of renewal are strengthened;
  3. The interpersonal relationship and dialogue between and among the agents of renewal are fostered;
  4. The spiritual life is intensified;
  5. The liturgical-sacramental life is updated.

ENABLING OBJECTIVES

For TPO #1.
Integral evangelization will be considered renewed if:

  1. evangelization teams areformed:
  2. faith communities work hand in hand as instruments in the evangelization process,-
  3. mass media are utilized in evangelization:
  4. catechesis in schools are conducted;
  5. evangelization is consciously incorporated in the formation of seminarians;
  6. pastors evangelize and are evangelized.

For TPO #2.
The socio-pastoral awareness and involvement among all agents of renewed will be considered strengthened if:

  1. a socio-pastoral committee is created and functional;
  2. socio-pastoral training activities for all agents of renewal are implemented:
  3. youth programs are carefully designed and implemented in all the parishes if the archdiocese;
  4. functional “ecology desk” is existent:
  5. a priest-in-charge for the pastoral care of the sick and disabled is assigned.

For TPO #3.
Interpersonal relationship will be considered fostered if:

  1. all the parishes undertake a regular program designed to improve interpersonal relationship among its members in the context of the faith dimension (such as the “new testament” way to community), which program will be coordinated at the archdiocesan level;
  2. more social gatherings take place on the parish and vicarial levels, such as birthdays, fiestas and anniversaries:
  3. planned absences of the individual priests of the vicariate take place under the coordination of the Vicar Forane (short absences for such purpose as retreats, seminars, home visits and the like);
  4. a Personal Board and a Priests-Relation Board are existent and functional;
  5. regular home visit especially among the least attended to members of the parish is conducted.

For TPO #4.
The spiritual life will be considered intensified if:

  1. a team for spiritual formation is organized and made to undergo a deep and solid spiritual formation;
  2. a program for renewal is designed by the team for implementation in the different parishes:
  3. literature and reprints are regularly made available to all the agents of renewal :
  4. provisions are made to enable all agents of renewal to participate in renewal programs and other spiritual courses both in and out of the parish:
  5. Centers of Renewal in the archdiocese are fully operational and planned activities take into account the economic capabilities of the participants.

For TPO #5.
The liturgical-sacramental life will be considered updated if:

  1. regular seminars on the liturgy and sacraments are conducted for all the agents of renewal ,’
  2. an archdiocesan liturgical—sacramental committee whose members are formed and updated designs and implements liturgical-sacramental activities in the archdiocese:
  3. an archdiocesan biblical committee whose members are formed and updated is tasked to design and implement biblical activities throughout the archdiocese;
  4. an archdiocesan committee on liturgical music whose members are trained and updated is tasked to design and implement activities relative to the promotion of appropriate and relevant liturgical music in all the liturgical activities of the archdiocese;
  5. existing popular devotions and practices are properly reoriented to the thrusts of PCPII;
  6. seminarians are fully formed with respect to the proper and meaningful celebration of the liturgy and the sacraments;
  7. sacramental catechesis in all parishes are held regularly and faithfully;
  8. lay ministers are trained and updated under the supervision of the liturgico-sacramental committee;
  9. seminars for song leaders and lectors are held regularly.
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