Best Practices on this page include practical programs that have been successful in at least one parish, and that could potentially be implemented in other parishes. Browse for the latest Best Practices below or search across the multiple areas of parish life.
Increase Efficiency without Losing Personal Touch
Jul 14, 2008: Progressive dinner allows priest to reach out in a personal way to multiple families in just one night.
Weblog Keeps Choir on Same Page
Jun 16, 2008: Weblogs, YouTube Feeds, and Musicasacra.org links help make an interactive blogspot that brings a parish music program into the information age.
Category: Sacraments
Bolstering Eucharistic Adoration
Jun 9, 2008: Parish team finds creative ways to boost perpetual adoration.
Categories: Youth, Vocation Promotion, Sacraments, Outreach, Faith Formation
Prayer-Blanket Ministry Unites Parishioners with the Sick
Jun 2, 2008: Parishioners find joy in giving prayers and comfort to those in need.
Vatican International Exhibit of Eucharistic Miracles
May 19, 2008: This exhibition presents 126 Eucharistic Miracles through photographs and historical descriptions. Throughout the ages, the Church has recognized these miracles from various countries as testimony to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
Categories: Sacraments, Outreach, Faith Formation
Promoting Vocations from the Inside Out
May 12, 2008: Vocation Basket turns families into active vocation promoters
Categories: Youth, Vocation Promotion, Family
Mass Moment Enriches Understanding
Apr 21, 2008: The Mass explained one day at a time...
Categories: Sacraments, Family, Faith Formation
Seminar-in-a-Box on the Sacrament of Marriage
Apr 14, 2008: One-day, high quality, motivational, proven marriage seminar starts new marriages out on the right foot and refreshes more experienced married couples.
Categories: Sacraments, Family, Faith Formation
Coffee, Cocoa and Questions
Mar 10, 2008: Informal Q&A with the pastor draws a crowd three weeks in a row.
Categories: Outreach, Faith Formation
A Volunteer Group for Every Parishioner
Mar 3, 2008: A time-tested way to ensure volunteers and to involve otherwise passive parishioners in parish life.
Categories: Outreach, Family, Administration and Finance