Catholic Services Appeal

As our parishes embark on a transformative journey from maintenance to mission, guided by the Diocesan-wide Pastoral Plan for Evangelization, the theme for the 2025/2026 Catholic Services Appeal (CSA) is fittingly "Encountering Christ, Transforming Lives."
 
This initiative is crucial for revitalizing our parish communities, ensuring their vibrancy and sustainability. While weekly offertory collections are vital, no single parish can thrive alone. The CSA provides indispensable support for diocesan-wide programs, services, and ministries, forming the very backbone of our collective efforts.
 
As Pope Leo XIV emphasized, our offerings are not just funds; they are an act of offering ourselves to God, consecrated for the necessities of the Church and for the poor. Giving engages our whole lives, not just our hearts and voices, but our resources and priorities.  
 
This means your contributions to the CSA are among the most impactful donations you can make this year. Your gifts support the education of our seminarians - our future parish priests - encourage vocations to religious and married life, help our youth deepen their relationship with God, and provide essential parish management and fundraising support.  These gifts are not mere "human uses," but vital for the Church to fulfill its divine mission and serve those in need.

The total goal this year is $2.4 million, a slight increase from the past several years.

As we embark on the Diocesan-wide Recalibrating Maintenance to Mission initiative, it is truly fitting that the theme for the 2024/2025 Catholic Services Appeal (CSA) is "United in the Eucharist: Empowered for Mission."
 
Our parishes are being called to transform from merely maintaining operations to actively engaging in Christ’s mission to evangelize to all people. This initiative is part of a broader strategy to revitalize our parish communities, ensuring their vibrancy and sustainability in an ever-changing world. As baptized members of the Church, each of us plays a vital role in this transformation, contributing in countless ways, both big and small, across our Diocese.

The scope of CSA services and ministries makes giving to the Appeal as important as any donation you may make this year.  Your gifts support the education of our seminarians; your future parish priests encourage religious vocations and vocations to married life, help our youth continue to grow in relationship with God, and provide parish management and fundraising support.

The total Diocesan CSA Goal is $2.35 million  

As we are amid the Diocesan-wide Maintenance to Mission initiative and Eucharistic Revival it is fitting that the 2023/2024 Catholic Services Appeal (CSA) theme this year is “Who do YOU say that I am?” The question is recorded in three of the four Gospels and the bookends of who we are. Addressed to each of us, this question calls for more than a quick answer. The answer not only can change as we grow over a lifetime of faith but it is vital that it does change. It requires a personal response and actions that will draw us closer in service to Him as grateful disciples.

The scope of these services and ministries makes giving to the CSA as important as any donation you may make this year.  Your gifts provide support for the education of our seminarians; your future parish priests encourage religious vocations and vocations to married life, help our youth continue to grow in relationship with God, and provide parish management and fundraising support.

The total Diocesan CSA Goal is $2.35 million