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Making a Substantial

GIFT to the Parish..

Many people like to wait until the end of the year to make a larger financial gift to the parish for Christmas.

There was a time when parishioners were encouraged to do this at Christmas as the Christmas collection was not taxed the 7% by the Archdiocese, as are all other collections in church.

Policies have now changed and this is not particularly beneficial to the parish any longer.

In fact an excessively large Christmas collection can create bigger financial problems for the parish in the upcoming year.

In light of all these changes, the most effective and useful gift to give to the parish at Christmas is to make a larger donation to CSA. Perhaps this seems distasteful to some, but the annual CSA assessment is a bill that must be paid by our parish no matter what. If not paid by way of donations made directly to the CSA it will be paid indirectly by the Sunday collection which will first be taxed 7% by the archdiocese before the money is applied to our CSA bill, thus causing us to pay even more.

And so, again I encourage Christmas gifts to the parish to be made to the CSA.

It is the greatest importance that checks be made out to CSA and NOT TO THE PARISH to avoid the 7% tax.

It is my greatest hope that this might be the year we actually meet our mandatory CSA Goal.

Fr. Mark