Community Life Commission

The ministries of the Community Life Commission plan activities and workshops that are designed to identify gifts and cultural and ethnic diversities and needs. These activities are to help parishioners discern their gifts and to discover ways to use them in the parish environment. The commission encourages participation in liturgies and celebrations that reflect cultural diversity and express the spirituality of the participants. 

The goal is to help parishioners understand cultural differences and promote ways of creating community among the ethnic groups. Ultimately, we are all included in the Body of Christ and are united as members of St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church.

PRIEST MODERATOR - Fr. GABRIEL EZEH, SMMM

Coordinator - Virginia Tejada


Chamorro Ministry - 

Judy Pouncy

(951) 370-0934


Contemplative Group - 



Divine Mercy - 

David Berger

(760) 622-8849


Fatima Prayer Group -

Edward De La Cruz

(951) 480-5428


Filipino Ministry - 

Mercy Dizon

(951) 679-4531


Ministerio de Guadalupanos - 

Susana Molina

(714) 317-7290


Knights of Columbus - 

Vic Zambrano

(619) 952-3297


Oracion - El Milagro del Señor

(Prayer - The Miracle of the Lord) - 

Oscar Alegria

(714) 423-9930


Sacred Hearts Secular Branch -

 Delores Schultz

(951) 566-5408


Talleres de Oracion y Vida - 

Rocio Navarro

(951) 679-4531  


Small Faith Communities:

  1. Encourage Small Faith Communities (SFC) to meet on a regular basis. The Diocesan Office for Small Faith Communities offers help in forming communities in parishes, training leaders and providing materials.
  2. Promote adult faith formation through Small Faith Communities which offer shared study, shared experience and community service.
  3. Organize a parish core group to develop and maintain Small Faith Communities.
  4. Invite members of Small Faith Communities to explain the value and the blessing that the SFC has been in their journey of faith.
  5. Utilize the small communities in your effort to welcome the stranger.
  6. ļ»æInspire and invite others in the parish to grow spiritually through involvement in a small community.

Diverse Cultures and Gifts:

  1. Use parish census surveys to identify gifts and cultural or ethnic diversities and needs.
  2. Plan activities and workshops at the parish or deaner level that are designed to help parishioners discern their gifts and discover ways to use them.
  3. Encourage participation at liturgies and celebrations that reflect your cultural diversity. These activities should be well planned and express the spirituality of participants.
  4. ļ»æLook for guidance from the Ministry of Ethnic Affairs of the Diocese. This Ministry can help parishioners and the pastoral staffs understand cultural differences and promote ways of creating community among ethnic groups.

Stewardship:

  1. Encourage the parish itself to practice good stewardship of all the resources given to it.
  2. Develop a parish brochure listing the ministries in which parishioners can become involved.
  3. Help people to discern their gifts and talents.
  4. Create an annual opportunity for people to commit or re-commit to serve in ministries.
  5. Invite new parishioners to become involved in ministries.
  6. Provide a thank you or recognition event for those who give their time.
  7. Establish on-going stewardship education for all ages.
  8. ļ»æMake stewardship a way of life.

“Whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat what is set before you, cure the sick in it and say to them, ‘The Reign of God is at hand for you’.”

Luke 10:8-9