2026 Offertory Appeal

needs YOUR help

Your Parish

Parish operating expenses have grown, and parish offertory and gift income has declined. For the past three years, the parish has been operating at a deficit, generating $657,313 in losses. This has consumed all financial reserves. These loses are not sustainable. Unless reversed, it will lead to reductions of critical services and potential closure of certain campus facilities.

Parish income hasn’t increased since 2010 – that’s 16 years – while costs have steadily risen due to inflation. Expenses are being tightly managed and the deferred maintenance backlog on parish facilities is growing by the day. Our parish is facing a critical and urgent financial crisis.

Our Responsibility

There is nothing complicated or high-pressure about our needs. Every family is simply being asked to immediately increase your monthly offertory giving by 30%. To get our parish back on firmer financial footing, the Church needs each one of us even as we need the Church.

This is our responsibility; this is our parish. What do we want for ourselves? A parish that is continually stressed from inadequate revenue? Or a parish that is thriving, healthy, and financially sound?

Our Response

The Catholic Standard of Giving begins with approximately $2.00 per week for each $1,000 of annual income. This is approximately equivalent to a tithe, which is a Biblical principle as a guide for giving. Many with the ability are able to give much more than this. This kind of giving calls for strength of will and courage to sacrifice.

A token gift is so small that it only has a negative impact on the giver. A sacrificial gift is large enough to have a positive spiritual impact. We need to move to “better-than-token” giving. This may involve a challenge to our present mode of living. With considered thought we may discover we have come to hold material things and comforts more important than our spiritual and religious needs. This is a serious challenge to our thinking about our priorities and what we value.

Our Sacrificial Gift

When considering the offertory gift you will want to make to the Church, think upon these several points, for the size of your commitment will depend on them:

Your faith in God
Your interest in sustaining parish operations and programs
Your recognition of the needs of the parish
YOUR OWN NEED TO GIVE
Your financial ability
Your willingness to do more than you have ever done before

The commitment we’re asking you to make is not only for your benefit. It is also clearly for those who have yet to come through the door, both young and old. It is an investment in the future of this parish.

Your Next Step

We’re asking every parishioner to communicate your engagement by completing the Offertory Commitment Card which can be found in the pews or which can be downloaded here (link to downloadable version of the Commitment Card) and placed in the collection basket.

Please indicate the amount by which you commit to increasing your monthly offertory giving. This amount is over-and-above your current level of giving and should represent a sacrificial contribution. Please print your name, sign the card, place it in the envelope and drop it in the collection basket or bring it by the parish office.

We must increase overall offertory contributions by at least $34,000 a month. With a parish of over 1,500 registered families, this should be entirely achievable.

If you are not making sacrificial weekly offertory contributions, this is the time to start. The Church needs your support, and you need the blessings that a healthy Church can sustain and provide. You are being asked to begin immediately.

If you are one of the many families currently supporting the parish with regular offertory giving, thank you. Please accept the challenge to increase your offertory by 30% beginning immediately.