Sta. Maria Della Strada Parish

Celebrating 25 Years of Sta. Maria della Strada Parish!

The journey of Sta. Maria della Strada to become a parish started in the late 1970s, when the churchgoers of the St. Joseph Church on Aurora Boulevard and the Ateneo Campus chapel had swelled in numbers. The needs of the vast area covering 14 barangays as well as that of a large transient student population from the University of the Philippines, Ateneo,...

Aligning with Cubao Diocese Strategic Directions

The Diocese as a Local Church is the concretization of the Universal Church. Headed by the Bishop as the real shepherd of all, she sets the pastoral direction of all the parishes under her fold. The Vicariate which is composed by the neighboring parishes performs the role of coordinating their activities in the context of collaborative ministry....

Defining the Della Strada Strategic Directions

The diagram below shows the strategy map of the Della Strada Parish. It is a graphical representation of the Parish Vision and Mission. IT believes that for the Parish to better address its parishioners’ spiritual and temporal needs, BECs or Basic Ecclesial Communities should be established. To support the BECs, Parish Ministries should be institutionalized...

Charting the Della Strada’s Organizational Structure Organizational Structure

The Della Strada Organizational Structure is composed of three major councils: (1) Implementing and Coordinating (2) Planning and (3) Finance. Subsumed under Implementing and Coordinating Council are the 7 Parish Ministries. Parish Planning Council: Basis for Establishment The establishment of the Parish Planning Council is based on the Canon...

Revisiting SMDS accomplishments in 2008

Two years after the Dellas Strada mission and vision statements were articulated, the heads of the Ministries and Tri-council met last November 2008 to identify manifestations of how the Parish is living up to its mission and actualizing its vision. Some of the reported accomplishments of the different Councils and Ministries, as of September 2008,...

Moving Forward –Action Plans of SMDS for 2009

Objectives Activities Date/ Timeframe 1. Formation 1.1 Orient parish servant leaders on the Church’s direction. Basic Pastoral Orientation March 7, 8-5 Dinner with LGV Board February 20, 7pm 1.2 Ccreate a critical mass base for spirituality of stewardship. Spirituality of stewardship June 13-14 July...

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