DIOCESAN OFFICES

Retirement Fund for Religious Collection
December 7-8, 2024
Donations to this collection, will provide for the essential care, medicine, and daily needs of senior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests who have served for decades—usually for little to no pay.  Show your appreciation by supporting those who have given a lifetime. Donate to help the more than 24,000 senior religious who have dedicated their lives to service retire with dignity.

Bulletin Announcements (sample)

Week before the collection
Aging religious need your help. “Your support acknowledges that we continue the mission of Christ even in our retirement,” says Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart Sister Celeste Burgos, 80. Donations provide for the care, medicine, and daily needs of over 24,000 senior sisters, brothers, and religious order priests who have dedicated their lives to service. Please give to the Retirement Fund for Religious.

Week of the collection
Support those who have given a lifetime. Women and men religious have dedicated their lives to service—praying, teaching, and caring for those in need—usually for little to no pay. Today, their religious communities do not have enough retirement savings. Your donation provides for the essential care, medicine, and daily needs of thousands of senior women and men religious. Please give generously.

Week after the collection
Women and men religious offer gratitude. “Sincere thanks to the donors of the Retirement Fund for Religious. I hope we meet, if not in this world, then in the next,” says Sister Teresa Korycka, 81, of the Sisters, Servants of Mary Immaculate. Your gift impacts over 24,000 senior women and men religious, providing them a dignified retirement. To learn how your donation helps, visit retiredreligious.org.

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Semana antes de la colecta
Religiosas y religiosos ancianos necesitan de ustedes. “Su apoyo reconoce que hacemos la mission de Cristo durante nuestra jubilación”, dice sor Celeste Burgos, 80, de las Misioneras Auxiliares del Sagrado Corazón. Los donativos cubren el cuidado, las medicinas y necesidades diarias de más de 24,000 hermanas, hermanos y sacerdotes de órdenes religiosas que han dedicado su vida a servirnos. Les rogamos que donen al Fondo para la Jubilación de Religiosos.

Semana de la colecta
Apoye a los que dieron toda una vida. Religiosas y religiosos han dedicado su vida a servirnos, orando, enseñando y cuidando a los necesitados, por poco o ningún pago. Hoy, sus comunidades carecen de ahorros suficientes para la jubilación. Los donativos cubren cuidados esenciales, medicinas y necesidades diarias de miles de religiosas y religiosos mayores. Les rogamos que sean generosos.

Semana después de la colecta
Religiosas y religiosos son agradecidos. “Nuestras más sinceras gracias a los donantes del Fondo para la Jubilación de Religiosos. Espero encontrarlos, si no en esta vida, en la otra”, dice sor Teresa Korycka, 81, de las Siervas de María Inmaculada. Los donativos afectan a más de 24,000 religiosas y religiosos ancianos, brindándoles una jubilación digna. Para saber cómo su donativo los ayuda, visite retiredreligious.org.

First National Marian Society Unity Conference
You are invited to the 1st National Marian Society Convention and 4th Annual One Mother, One Family Retreat beginning on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm at Mary Help of Christians Center (Gym), 6400 E Chelsea St. Tampa, Fl 33610. The theme this year is the repeated message the Blessed Mother has given, that, in the end, her Immaculate Heart will triumph. We aim to unite Our Blessed Mother’s children in prayer and purpose under her mighty hope and protection. Most Reverend William Avenya, Bishop of Gboko, Nigeria, will preside at the opening Mass followed by an international Marian rosary procession, with Eucharistic adoration and confessions. Bishop Gregory Parkes will preside at the closing Mass on Saturday, November 23, 2024 at noon. 

For more information, please visit our site at https://mariansociety.org/, or email ICMSRosaries@gmail.com or call Tina VerPault at 813-417-9720.

 Promotional Graphic at this link:  https://shorturl.at/2OpcY.

PILGRIMAGES AROUND THE DIOCESE

If your parish is offering a pilgrimage within the coming months, we invite you to share this information with the Pastoral Bulletin: pastoralbulletin@dosp.org.  This allows readers to view opportunities to participate in an upcoming pilgrimage.  The pilgrimages are posted in the Diocesan website under the Pastoral Bulletin page at this link.