Beacons of Light is a planning process through which parishes will be grouped together to form vital, evangelizing communities of faith.

There are many reasons for this planning process:

• Our parishes need to be vibrant communities of faith in order to form us as disciples of Jesus Christ who radiate Christ in our lives and in the world. 
• Declining religious practice in the U.S. points to the need for strong parishes that lead people to encounter Christ and form us as missionary disciples
• We need to better understand the impact of changes in demographics in many areas within our archdiocese
• We will have fewer priests who can serve as pastors in the future. 

• Winter and spring, 2021: data gathering and analysis and process development
• Summer and autumn, 2021: parish groupings will be discerned; pilot processes with select groups of parishes will take place
• Spring, 2022: second pilot process
• Summer, 2022: the first wave of implementation