Dear parishioners, The following is a summary of the most recent finance council meeting, which took place a couple weeks ago. We have not yet received the 4th quarter statements for our investments, so we do not have updated numbers for those accounts. However, our most recent
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Dear parishioners, The following is a summary of the most recent finance council meeting. At the time of our meeting a few weeks ago, our investments in the Catholic Investment Trust totaled $503,601. We are very pleased with this number! Our principal amount of $400,000 has grown
Read more →Hello everyone, Our parish finance council met recently and the following is a summary of what we discussed. The first item we discussed is that the Diocese of Toledo recently conducted an audit of our parish. This is standard practice whenever a new pastor is assigned to
Read more →Hello everyone! Having already begun the season of Lent, we once again turn our focus to doing acts of penance in the forms of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These acts are good for us by their very nature as they serve a twofold purpose. Firstly, we can
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ First off, a couple of our extraordinary eucharistic distributors at the Antwerp campus encountered some significant circumstances that prevent them from taking Holy Communion to our shut-ins from that campus. If there is anybody out there willing to be trained, please come forward.
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 →+JMJ Dear Parishioners, On November 19th we had another finance council meeting. We began by looking at the balance sheet, the profit-and-loss statement, and the payables statement. The balance sheet showed $279,752 in usable savings, although about $25,407 of this money was given specifically for the moisture
Read more →Dear Parishioners, +JMJ With this letter I would like to give you a quick synopsis of the most recent Financial Council meeting we had – almost 2 weeks ago now: -We reviewed our initial responses to each of the findings from the diocesan audit. Our responses were
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