*Promotes colloboration for enhanced for ministries like marriage prep, RCIA, and bible studies
*Creates efficiencies with a centralized staff
*Allows for enhanced youth ministry through shared lesson plans and larger retreat/service trip opportunities
*Allows more consultation from stakeholders and experts on a number of legal, financial, and facility issues. 
*Streamlines some parish tasks, which gives priests more time for ministerial efforts. 
 

*A merger doesn't mean a church is closing.
*A merger doesn't mean the Mass schedule will change. 
*A merger doesn't mean that a priest is leaving
*A merger doesn't mean that the Diocese will take our money.
* A merger doesn't mean that the name of the church changes. Sacred Heart Church is still Sacred Heart Church. St. Ann Church is still St. Ann Church.  Members of those churches now belong to St. Rose of Lima Parish.