Dear parishioners, Every year, Bishop Thomas celebrates a Mass at Rosary Cathedral in Toledo for couples in the diocese celebrating significant wedding anniversaries. Registration for this year’s anniversary Mass is now open. So, if 2022 marks your 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th or 60th-plus wedding anniversary, you are
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Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Canon Law requires us once a year to make a “financial disclosure” to the parish. That is the purpose of this bulletin letter, along with the condensed end-of-year balance sheet, profit and loss statement and major projects list. Although I consider this
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ We had a finance council committee meeting a couple weeks ago. Here are the highlights: First we introduced new members and reviewed the purpose of the finance council, since we have three new members who will join us this year, with three former
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ The Code of Canon Law requires that pastors make a financial disclosure regarding parish finances once a year. On a weekly basis we show in the bulletin how the collections measure up to the budget. But in this week’s bulletin you have the
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ Canon Law (Church law) requires that once a year there be a financial disclosure to the whole parish. The fiscal year for the Diocese runs July 1-June 30; and the end-of-year reports are due by the end of July. The financial information in
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ A pastor of a parish is required at least once a year to make a financial disclosure to the parish. For the last couple of parishes that I pastored, this disclosure was most easily made by publishing in the bulletin the fiscal end-of-year balance
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