_­PARISH SURVEY

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

DIACONAL PROJECT

 

This is a collaoborative endevor of PAROC with Marymatha Major Seminary, applying its fourth year students into social research zeal. The students are invited to engage in a pastoral social research where they are asked to do their pastoral ministry as a part of pastoral formation program. They shall fix a topic on pastoral importance in the parish and can approach the same with the tool of social research. PAROC research institute has supervised a variety of micro research program pertainging pastoral concern. Some of them are listed here.

1. Youth and faith practices
2. Impact of youth migration in parishes
3. Participation of youth in pious association
4. Influence of social media and youth
5. Influence of social media in family relationship
6. Being unmarried: issues of unmarried in the parish
7. Influence of Malayalam films on catholic faith
8. Influence of Catechism on catholic children

 

EMMAUS PROJECT

1. Spiritual Life of The Youth During Covid
2. A Socio-Pastoral Analaysis of the Petitions for the Nullification of Marriage in the Archeparchy of Trichur for Years 2009-2019.

 

KMS SURVEY REPORT

Catholic Community in Kerala: An Investigation into Socio-Economic Postition

A Study based on KMS Survey

JB KOSHY COMMISSION SURVEY

The Socio-Economic and Demographic Postion of the Syro Malabar Community in Kerala - A study based on the field survey conducted in the Archeparchies and eparchies under Public Affairs Commission of the Syro Malabar Church.