The Parish Pastoral Council’s role is to join the pastor in “dreaming” what the parish is called to become and developing a plan to make that dream a reality. The pastoral plan will reflect what Pope Francis refers to as a “missionary option, that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church’s customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channeled for the evangelization of today’s world rather than for her self-preservation.”
EVANGELII GAUDIUM , #27