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December 13, 2022This a gentle reminder that all Sunday and Holy Day Stewardship Gifts for 2022 and other year-end gifts for Charitable Giving are to be received by December 31, 2022. Thank you for your generosity as you share God's gifts given through your Sunday and Holy Day sacrificial offerings. Your financial support strengthens and sustains the mission of your parish. In this season of giving, please prayerfully reflect and reevaluate your financial stewardship for 2023. I appreciate your attentiveness to the signs of the time, offering what you are able to and your willingness to enroll in weekly or monthly online giving. Thank you! I am be happy to share information about how to enroll in this safe and secure way of giving to anyone interested in learning more.
During December 2022 and January 2023, parish Finance Commissions are finalizing the operating budgets for FY 2023-2024. Both parishes show signs of financial stability in reviewing the Income and Expense Summaries for November 2022, available in this week's online bulletin and next week's print edition. However, St. Boniface Parish still needs to receive $ 6,287.85 (6.4% budget shortfall), and St. Meinrad Parish still needs to receive $10,692.65 (6.41% budget shortfall) to remain on their monthly budgeted financial schedule.
In our own lives, we each have bills to pay and deadlines by which they are due. There is the mortgage payment, bills for electric service, water and sewer, natural and LP gas, internet service, mobile phone, cable television, garbage collection, repairs and maintenance, lawn maintenance, and much more. For most of our families, these costs are generated by the occupancy of our home by two, three, four, or perhaps even seven or eight family members. Imagine if your monthly bills were generated by hundreds of people each week using the home.
Our parish's expenses to do what we do - the mission and the ministry of our parish family - are not imaginary but very real. These bills are paid through the generosity of our parish members, principally through their Sunday and Holy Day Stewardship Offerings at Mass. It is our duty as good Christian stewards to adopt a plan for being a good steward of our treasure and taking care of our spiritual family, parish family, and spiritual home, with the same urgency we care for our immediate family.
Gifts may be dropped off in the parish office at 19630 N. 4th St., Saint Meinrad, IN. The accessible entrance to the parish office is located on Brewery Street, on the north side of the building. The convenient access area is in the carport area, equipped with an after-hours drop box to receive materials that need to be dropped off after hours.
Have a Merry Christmas, and blessings to you and your family in the New Year! - Tina
