“It is not enough to say we are Christians.

We must live the faith, not only with our words, but with our actions.”

Update on the parish renewal Program:  Thanksgiving

Thanks again to those who responded offering generously of their finances.

A few follow-up items remain from this program:

1)  If you are in the Thanksgiving program and have not collected your box of envelopes (weekly givers) or envelope in a letter (if you give by envelopes less frequently than weekly, by direct debit or by credit card), then please collect your box / letter from the right table in the foyer. We still have a lot of letters to be collected.
   a. Please note that the amount reported as your pledge in the letter is only for Thanksgiving to the church (current second collection). If you did pledge to the Presbytery collection for priests (current first collection), we have recorded it in our systems.
  b. If there is no letter for you (and it hasn’t been collected by someone else) and you wish to join thanksgiving in our Parish, please leave your name on the sheet next to the envelopes.

2)  If your giving is by envelope, please use the new envelopes from now on and not the old envelopes. Some envelope numbers have changed, and it helps our admin team greatly if you use the new set.

3)  We are trialling a change (until end of July) to move from two collection plates each weekend Mass to a single collection plate. This will be passed around after the Prayers of the Faithful, before the Eucharistic Prayer, which is when we have been taking up the second collection. If giving by envelope, please put it in this collection. If you are giving cash not in an envelope, then please put it on the collection plate. It will be split between Presbytery (for priests) and Thanksgiving (for church / parish) on a pre-defined 2/3 to Presbytery and 1/3 to Thanksgiving basis. This matches what we do now for giving by credit card on the Donation Tap Point devices in the church foyer. We will review this new approach with Fr. Jerald, our new Parish Priest, after he joins us in mid-July.