Let’s take a moment to hear from Bishop David P. Talley about our Strategic Pastoral Plan’s six Priorities and Year 1 expectation for each Priority in this video link: https://vimeo.com/1074964253.

Our Vision

To live a Christ-centered fellowship, on fire with the love of God and neighbor, to see individuals, families, parishes, and our schools working together to build up the Kingdom of God in West Tennessee.

Our Mission

Living the anointed life in Word and Sacrament.

Our Priorities and Year 1

• Eucharistic Life: Living a life of prayer, worship, and thanksgiving, and celebrating the Sacraments of Christ with reverence and fervor, born of the Holy Spirit’s presence within us.

Year 1: Increase communal opportunities to pray our Catholic devotionals, especially Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, the Holy Rosary, and the Stations of the Cross.

• Formation: In the fruitfulness of Eucharistic Life, we commit ourselves and our families to lifelong formation in the apostolic traditions of our faith.

Year 1: Create weekly opportunities for on-going faith formation of adults, teens, and children in our 46 parishes and 13 Catholic schools.

• Evangelization: Born of a Eucharistic Life, we will proclaim the Good News to all in every part of West Tennessee.

Year 1: Strengthen the understanding of missionary discipleship of our Risen Lord, and how this speaks to evangelization in our families, schools, and parishes.

• Unity: Revealed through our Eucharistic Life, we, though many, are one Body of Christ.

Year 1: Compare and contrast secular notions of “diversity” with the diversity seen in the Body of Christ.

• Steeped in Mercy: Bound through our Eucharistic Life, we follow the Lord Jesus in sharing sacrificially, especially with the least, and the last, and the lost.

Year 1: Create parish-based resources and processes to care for those seeking mercy within your community.

• Stewardship: We manifest the Eucharistic Life through our generous and intentional stewardship of all

God’s gifts.

Year 1: Develop a “spirituality of stewardship” within families, our schools, and parish organizations.

Note: For further details on our Diocese’s Strategic Pastoral Plan, go to: https://cdom.org/strategic-pastoral-plan/.