Pursuant to the Statutes Pertinent to the Parish Organizational Structure promulgated on 30 June 1997 of the Archdiocese of Palo that provided guidelines in the formation of the Parish Pastoral Council, Parish Commissions, Treasurer and Auditor, Planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Pastoral Plan for LY 2008 rests on the Parish Organization that includes, the Clergy, Parish Pastoral Plan, Parish Finance Council (to be organized) and the five commissions. As depicted in Figure 6 the Parish organizational structure was structured to compose the management, line and staff hierarchy.

1. Management-Overall supervision, decision making and directions
   1. Parish Priest
   2. Vicar
   3. Resident Priest
2. Line Function – involved in the implementation and daily activities
   1. Commission on Worship
      1. Extra Ordinary Ministrers of the Holy Eucharist
      2. Lector's Ministry
      3. Knights of the Altar
      4. Music Ministry
      5. Sacristy Staff
      6. Religious Organizations and Confraternities
   2. Commission on Education
      1. Catechetical Ministry
      2. Family and Life Apostolate
      3. Angelicum School
      4. Office of Vocations Promotion
      5. Media/Newsletter Puclication
   3. Commission on Social Action
      1. Credit Cooperative
      2. PPCRV
      3. Ecology Desk
      4. Office on Women
   4. Commission on Temporalities
      1. Ground Maintenance and Physicalities
      2. Inventory Committee
      3. Security
      4. Cemetery
      5. Church Maintenance
      6. Special Projects
   5. Commission on Youth
3. Staff Function provides advisory, analysis and support to the parish priest. These include the following:
   1. Parish Pastoral Council
   2. Parish Finance Council
   3. Parish Treasurer
   4. Parish Auditor
   5. BEC Formation Team
   6. Research, Planning and Development Committee
   7. Parish Office Staff

For the Liturgical Year 2007-2009, Msgr. Aguilos, appointed the members to the Parish Council to serve in advisory capacity and to utilize the many and varied gifts of the laity in service to the Church as it continue to carry out the mission of Christ.

• Identity of the PPC
  1. The Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) is a consultative body which is truly representative of the whole parish presided over by the parish priest. It is the research, planning and evaluating body of the parish.
  2. Pastoral in nature, the PPC deals wih the concers affecting Church and the world, and concentrates on developing priorities overall resolutions with regard to issues identified. It recommends parochial plans and policies to the parish priest for his approval before they are implemented.
  3. Being a consultative body, it is co-terminus with the Parish Priest. It ceases to exist once the parish priest is transferred or removed. It is the prerogative of the new parish priest to renew the old pastoral council or to establish a new one.
  4. Within six months after his installation the parish priest must establish the PPC. In the interim, the parish priest may ask the members of the old PPC to serve in hold over capacity until a new PPC is established.

• Functions of the PPC

  The PPC is to facilitate a process in discovering, identifying and promulgating the parish mission statement in line with the priorities of the Archdiocese as embodies in the decrees of the First Archdiocesan Pastoral Assembly the II Plenerary Council of the Philippines the universal Church and in response to the signs of the times. Among its functions are the following:
  1. To prayerfully reflect on the needs, the life and the mission of the parish community;
  2. To recommend administrative pastoral and developmental plans and programs for both spiritual and temporal needs of all members of the parish to the parish priest;
  3. To advise the parish priest on the governace and ministry of the parish community;
  4. To review and evaluate the implementation of the plans and to carry out ongoing pastoral planning;
  5. To gather relevant data as bases for planning evaluation and recommendations;
  6. To perform other lawful tasks which the parish priese may assign;
  7. To provide a mechanism by which the parishioners shall encourage to manifest their view on matters which concers the good of the parish in the spirit of dialogue and fraernal correction (FAPA No. 20).

• Membership
  1. The PPC will be composed of at least 15 members with the following as automatic members:
     1. Parish Priest
     2. All Assistant Parish Priests
     3. Chairpersons of the Parish Commissions

     4. Head of the Catholic School located in the parish

        The rest of the members will be elected or appointed by the parish priest after consultations with some parishioners

  2. Terms of membership shall be two years. They can be reappointed or reelected but not for a third consecutive term. However, after a lapse of two year period, they can be reappointed or reelected to the PPC.
  3. The members of the Parish Pastoral Council must:
     1. Be a proven faith morals and outstanding prudences.
     2. Not be a member of any organization whose tenets are incomplete with the Catholic Church
     3. Be at least eighteen (18) years of age
     4. Be available and committed to serve the parish
  4. To the Parish Priest is given the prerogative to decide on the manner of representation or composition of the Parish Pastoral Council in a way that the members would truly represent the whol parish including various religious and sectoral groups or a representative from cluster of barangays.
• Organization
  1. The Parish Priest shall be the Chairperson of the PPC. As such, he presides over the meeting. If for some valid reason he cannot perform this function, he has the power to appoint the vice-chairman to preside over the meeting.
  2. The parish priest shall also appoin a Vice Chairman and a Secretary who are both lay persons.
  3. The PPC meets once every two months except in special cases where these meetings can be called outside of the regular schedule.
• Duties of the Officers
  1. Chairman
     1. To convoke the Parish Pastoral Council
     2. To decide on the agenda of the meeting of the PPC
     3. To receive and decide upon all recommendations of the PPC before they can be implemented
     4. To preside over all meetings of the PPC
  2. Vice Chairman
     1. To preside over the meeting of the PPC in the absence of the Chairman or in his disability
     2. To perform other duties that may be assigned to him by the chairman
     3. To be the liason officer among the various commission and committees
  3. Secretary
     1. To record faithfully in writing the minutes of all meetings of the PPC
     2. To gather, arrange and safeguard all the records of the PPC, as well as the records of information taken from the five commissions
     3. To give notice to members of all meetings called
     4. To receive and distributed correspondence to whom they appertain
     5. To perform all other duties incident to his office

1. Every parish shall establish five commissions which shall be implementing arm of the plans and programs of the Parish Pastoral Council as approved of the parish priest. The commission are:
   1. Commission on Worship
   2. Commission on Education (Christian Formation)
   3. Commission on Social Action
   4. Commission on Temporalities
   5. Commission on Youth
2. Each of the five (5) Commissions shall meet at least once a month separately. Minutes of all meetings shall be duly recorded by the Commission Secretaries and copies furnished to the Secretary of the PPC
3. Each commission shall have a chairman appointed by the parish priest for a term of two years subject to one reappointment. Their term does not cease with the transfer or removal of the parish priest.

Duties of the Commission Chairman

1. The Commission Chairman shall act as the Program Director in his own commission.He coordinates and oversees the implementation of the parish programs decided by the PPC and approved by the parish priest as they pertain to his area of responsibility.
2. Upon the approval of the parish priest, the commission chairman may appoint additional members to the commision who are non members of the PPC. Each commission shall have at least five members.
3. The commission chairman shall appoint a commission secretary who shall keep records of the minutes of all meetings and the activities of their respective commission.
4. He shall submit periodic accomplishment report during the regular meeting of the Parish Pastoral Council
5. He shall perform shuch other duties as the PPC of the parish priest may prescribe from time to time.

1. To act as custodian of the money of the five commissions
2. To act as custodian of the money gathered from special or extradordinary collections or fund raising projects. All monies should be deposited in the bank except for petty cash which will say in the hands of the Treasurer. Books and documents should be deposited in a steel cabinet provided for this purpose in which case only the priest and treasurer will hold the key to this cabinet. Strict rules of bookkeping and accounting must be followed.
3. To be co-signatory with the Parish Priest of all the accounts of the commissions. Pursuant to Circular Letter No. 040 Series of 1997, all parish monies should never be deposited under the personal name of the Parish Priests. The title of the deposit should be:
   THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF PALO, Inc.
   In trust for the Parish of
   Aside from the Parish Priest and the Treasurer, the Archbishop should always be a signatory alone in the deposits of parish funds, so that in cases of emergency the money can be easily withdrawn.
4. To disburse funds only with the knowledge and conset of the Parish Priest with vouchers and receipts.
5. To prepare, submit and publish annual financial report or as often as the parish priest requires it.
6. To open the books for inspection at anytime by authorized officials of the Chancery.
7. He shall automatically be a member of the Commission on Temporalities and the Parish Pastoral Council

1. To make a periodic audit of the book of accounts of the Treasurer
2. To make a performance audit periodically of projects of the parish