Congratulations

09-12-2020Weekly ReflectionFr. James Aboyi

Congratulations to all of you on our performance in the Offertory Matching Opportunity! I am so excited to inform you that we exceeded our matching goal of $29,700 by 152%. The total new offertory increase donation is $45,231. This means that $29,700 of this amount will be matched, dollar for dollar, making a total of $74,931 increased donation to our parish within the months of July and August. The new increase in Offertory ($45,231) within July and August represents an average monthly increase of $23,000 in offertory and we expect this trend to continue. This is all from 172 of our parish families (84 new online givers and 88 increased givers) that participated in the matching appeal. The matching gift check from the donor will be mailed to us in the month of October. I understand that a few families participated right before the deadline on August 31st. I will give you more updates next week to include those new gifts.

I honestly don’t know how to thank you all enough for this impressive and generous response to the appeal. Giving the impact of the pandemic, I was cautiously optimistic that we would make the goal when we started the appeal in the last week of June. To exceed our goal by 152% was beyond my wildest imagination. Thank you so much for your sacrificial giving in response to the need of our parish community. May God continue to provide for you as you support the mission of the Church. I thank everyone for your continuous support, even if you did not participate in the matching appeal at this time, your prayers and financial support are appreciated.

During the week, I sent a thank you letter to the donor family that provided this matching opportunity for our parish and school communities. I informed the family that we will offer a special prayer for their intentions during our Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, held today. I also informed them that we will offer Mass for their intention at our 9am Sunday Mass on September 13th.

Thank you and remain blessed,

Fr. James