{"id":25,"date":"2020-06-21T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T21:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2022-09-06T20:58:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T20:58:40","slug":"lpa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/?page_id=25","title":{"rendered":"Local Pastoral Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 Bishop Brian grouped parishes together in Local Pastoral Areas. In a Pastoral Letter in July 2007 he wrote: The purpose of Local Pastoral Areas is to support the viability of local communities. I see co-operation and sharing of resources as central to this purpose. It will, of course, require willingness on everyone&#8217;s part to plan and take decisions conducive to the well-bring of the whole area.<\/p>\n<p>St. Chad&#8217;s is linked with our daughter parishes: St. Ann&#8217;s, Cheadle Hulme and Christ Church, Heald Green. Together we form ST. CHAD&#8217;S LOCAL PASTORAL AREA (LPA 19).<\/p>\n<p>The LPA plans joint activities and gives support to the three parishes through meetings of parish representatives &#8211; the LPA Team &#8211; consisting of the three parish priests, an elected rep from each parish, and a teacher and a catechist appointed by the Bishop<\/p>\n<h2>THE LPA TEAM<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>St. Chad&#8217;s &#8211; Fr. Louis and Mrs. Bernie McShane<\/li>\n<li>St. Ann&#8217;s &#8211; Fr. Louis and Mr. Bob Silcock<\/li>\n<li>Christ Church &#8211; Fr. Tony and Mrs. Joan Bleackley<\/li>\n<li>Catechist &#8211; Mrs. Christine Bodley<\/li>\n<li>Teacher &#8211; Mrs. Margaret York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three parishes share the three schools: Cheadle Catholic Infant School, Cheadle Catholic Junior School, and St. James&#8217; Catholic High School<\/p>\n<h2>WHAT WE DO TOGETHER<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Services of Reconciliation are celebrated each Lent.<\/li>\n<li>An annual Day of Recollection is held primarily for Readers and Extraordinary Ministers of Communion, but all are welcome.<\/li>\n<li>Confirmation is celebrated jointly for all Year 9 students<\/li>\n<li>One of the priests is a school governor<\/li>\n<li>All three priests share chaplaincy work in the schools<\/li>\n<li>At social events arranged by one parish, members of the other parishes are welcome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007 Bishop Brian grouped parishes together in Local Pastoral Areas. In a Pastoral Letter in July 2007 he wrote: The purpose of Local Pastoral Areas is to support the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stchadscheadle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}