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To Know the Parish, To Grow in Communion

This research program is a customized version of collaborative research. It establishes a strong bond between social research and pastoral management. We undertake each parish, to know the parish through the means of research tools, with the assistance of the parish leaders. This is a socio-pastoral reserch program that looks and analyse the parish community in its deep sense of faith and practices.

Objectives - It is to evaluate the spiritual growth, understand the social life, accelerate the parish activites, to give an orientation to the parish administration, to encourage collaborative pastoral leadership in the parish.

Steps we follow:

1. Organization of research team
2. Preparation of reserach tools
3. Training program for survey investigation team in the parish.
4. Data collection
5. Data processing
6. Data analysis
7. Dissemination of the data and research findings
8. Preparation of the pastoral planning

we have completed our assignments in around 20 parishes...

1. Adatt -
2. Arampilly -
3. Athani -
4. Chiranellur -
5. Chittissery
6. Karumathra
7. Kiralur
8. Kuriachira
9. Lourde cathedral
10. Olarikkara
11. Parannur
12. Pavaratty
13. Pazhayandadi
14. Perinchery
15. Sarithapuram
16. Thalakkottukara
17. Thayyur
18. Thoravu
19. Vellatanjoor
20. Velur
21. Villadam

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