Parish Census

With the advent of the "Faith in Our Future" process, which requires a parish self-study or evaluation, we thought it would be helpful to update our parish census. Since the establishment of our parish in 2005, our census numbers set the total number of our households (both active and inactive) at over 5000. While updates were made to adjust for families moving and for deaths, we did not make an extensive review of the census. Last year, for instance, we claimed our number of households to be 5021 which was composed of 2889 active or supporting families and 2132 inactive families.

Our parish has now completed its review and removed from the census all those families who have not resided within the parish territory and have been inactive since 2005. We retained on our census those inactive families who do reside within our parish territory since we are responsible for the pastoral care of all Catholics living within the parish boundaries.

Our parish does welcome those Catholics who, although residing within the territory of another parish, desire to become active members of Our Lady of Sorrows–St. Anthony. We also offer our services to all Catholics whether or not they are registered or residing in our territory.

Our current census now stands at:

1130	active/supporting
2778	inactive/non-supporting
3908	Total registered households

These new figures provide a more realistic picture of our parish and will be helpful for our future planning.