Annual Catholic Appeal Next Weekend
Posted on February 3rd, 2012

Next weekend is Catholic Appeal Sunday in the 90+ parishes and missions in our nine county diocese. If you are a regular in our parish, you have most likely received a letter from the diocese regarding Catholic Appeal.

For those of you who are new to our parish, Catholic Appeal is the way all the parishes of our diocese join together to fund the administration and ministries of our central office: the department that oversees all the construction going on in parishes; Finance Department for parish finances and audits; Liturgy Department for the worship life of the parishes and diocese; Marriage and Family Life Department for marriage enrichment and pre-Cana program (couples planning for marriage); Office of Schools and Religious Education for the forty Catholic schools in our diocese and the faith formation programs in each parish, including youth ministry; the department for the formation of seminarians and ongoing formation of clergy; Human Resources for personnel issues of parishes and the diocese; fingerprinting department; Catholic Charities; and our Sister Diocese in the Dominican Republic. (I may have omitted some departments or diocesan ministries.) Overseeing the life of 90+ parishes is a big job. It requires many skilled personnel.

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