Goals
To promote religious awareness on the importance of “family advent preparation” and of the Filipino tradition of Simbang Gabi as a powerful spiritual tool to prepare for Christmas. To bring Filipino families together in a spirit of pre-Christmas preparation and celebration of Simbang Gabi in more spiritual manner and according to Filipino tradition.
To encourage Filipino Families to embrace the call of missionary discipleship by Pope Francis and Archbishop Lori and to open many families to the spirit of Jubillee Year or Mercy. To promote to all Filipino families the importance of
registration of the family in a Parish Church.
Members
Overall-Coordinator: Ms. Agnes Nepomuceno
Members: Coordinators of each parish church sponsoring the Simbang Gabi (9 coordinators) Plus added individuals whose gifts are needed to realize a very Filipino cultural tradition of Simbang Gabi:
- Myrna Ortega
- Tita Keeney
- Jr Manalad
- Luis Florendo
- Ethan Gomez, etc.
AFC Executive Committee
Responsibilities and Tasks
- Designing the Plan for Simbang Gabi 2015
- Call a meeting to determine the plan about Simbang Gabi 2015
- Draw up the final plan based on the identified strengths and constraint as well as resources to use for this event.
- Clarifying the norms and use of resources, e,g., inclement weather parish policy, usage of Choirs, reception after the Mass.
- Create a Complete Schedule of Simbang Gabi, clearly listing the presider, readers, servers, offerers, sponsor of the Mass, nd the choir who will be singing at each mass.
- Coordinating the Plan
- Contact all 9 pastors of prospective Churches hosting Simbang Gabi
- Contact possible leaders at each Church, hosting Simbang Gabi, to seek commitment to lead and organize a team at their respective parishes.
- Hold a final meeting of all Parish Simbang Gabi Coordinators to discuss the plan, responsibilities and task, liturgical Norms, and expectations.
- Contact all prospective priests who will provide the Mass based on the schedule and theme of each Mass. There will be foru priest who committed to have Mass for this Simbang Gabi
- Promotion of Simbang Gabi through all avenues from November to December so that many Filipino Families may be fully informed
- Designing and Printing of flyers
- Publication through Facebooks, flyers, meetings, and Filipino gatherings
- Email communication to all Filipino organizations and parish-based Filipino organizations.
- Monitoring of the actual Implementation of the Plan at each parish
Parish Team Coordinator
- Organization of a Parish Working Team who will implement the plan at their respective parishes. The Working team may include the Filipino families of neighboring parishes who are joining in this event.
- Meeting of all members of the Parish Working Team to discuss the details of the plan at their respective parish.
- To determine the following people needed for the Mass.
- Readers – there are two readings: reading of the day, Responsorial Psalm (if not to be sung), and prayers of the faith.
- Choir – there two choirs that can be used – Filipino Community Choir, led by Tita Keeney, and JITS Praise Team, led by Myrna Ortega. A Parish choir may also be used, if you have your own Choir.
- Songs will be determined by AFC for the entire Simbang Gabi Season.
- Servers and offerers.
- Sponsor for the Mass. Each parish will have to find a sponsor for the Mass who will prepare a stipend ($100) for the priest presider.
- To determine if they will host a Reception after the Mass
- To seek permission with the pastor of the Church and request a hall or a big room for a possible reception.
- To organize with fellow parishioners on how to prepare for and realize this reception.
Archdiocesan Filipino Council Documents
Description of Simbang Gabi
Liturgical Norm for Simbang Gabi
Complete Archdiocesan Simbang Gabi
A complete listing the Churches, priest presiders, parish team coordinators, choirs, readers, servers, sponsors of the Mass.
A complete listing of Parish Working Team of each parish participating in the Archdiocesan Simbang Gabi.
A complete listing of priests presiders with their telephone numbers.
Parish Working Team Documents
A complete table, listing the people responsible for the following: readers, prayers for the faithful, sponsors of the Mass, offerers, collectors,
Reception – if there is a reception, what is the plan, coordination of the place of reception with the pastor of the Church.
Parish Policy in terms of cancellation of Mass during Inclement Weather.
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