Thank you for supporting
these special collections

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL PROGRAM - Donate now!
Holy Thursday Collection:
Our SVdP conference has been at STCC over 100 years, serving the neighborhood and parishioners. During this season of Christ help by doing the human thing...help another human.

CHILD CARE CENTER SUPPORT - Donate now!
Donations help with the operating expenses and salaries at the Saint Cecilia Child Care Center.

HOLY LAND - Donate now!
Good Friday Collection:
Assists in the care and maintenance of Holy Sites.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: SEMINARY FUND (JANUARY) - Donate now!
Provides a substantial percentage of the cost of educating seminarians, which include tuition, room, board, books, travel costs and health insurance.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: 4 IN 1 MISSION (FEBRUARY) - Donate now!
Latin America
For almost forty years the Church in the United States has been actively assisting the Church in Latin America. With the aid of the collection and in cooperation with the bishops of the U.S. and Latin America, grants are made to support the vast needs of the local churches in Latin America, especially in the areas of evangelization, pastoral programs and formation of laity, religious and seminarians.

Holy Land
Assists in the care and maintenance of Holy Sites.

Catholic University
Provides funding for academic scholarships at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Catholic University was founded in 1887 by American Bishops and is the only U.S. university with Pontifical faculties.

Home Missions
Approved by the U.S. bishops in 1997. Funds from the appeal will help extend and strengthen the presence of the Church in the Unites States and its dependencies through the support of basic pastoral services in areas that struggle to provide such necessities on their own. The Catholic Home Mission Appeal will allow Catholics to help support local communities where Catholics are few, the church is fragile, and pastors struggle to keep mission parishes afloat.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: BLACK & INDIAN MISSIONS (FEBRUARY) - Donate now!
Mandated by the III Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884, the 114 year old National Collection for Black and Indian people continues as the embodiment of the Church's concern for the evangelizing the Black and Indian people of the United States. The funds are distributed as grants to dioceses throughout the United States, supporting and strengthening evangelization programs which otherwise would cease. The Collection was formerly known as the Black and Indian Home Missions Collection. The name has been changed to accommodate the new Catholic Home Mission Collection.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES (MARCH) - Donate now!
Provides funding for Catholic Relief Services, USCC Department of Social Development and World Peace, relief work of the Holy Father, and USCC Migration and Refugee Services.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS (MAY) - Donate now!
The essential mission of the CCC is to contribute to the process of Campaign* evangelization by fostering activities in television, radio, and other media, and throughout special projects of the Catholic press. An annual collection is taken up in the dioceses, which remit 50% of the funds collected to the National Office. Grants are made following recommendations by the USCC Communication Committee, the remaining portion of the collection is retained by the diocese for use in local communication projects.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: PETER’S PENCE (JULY) - Donate now!
Assists the Holy Father in his service to the whole church.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: ARCHBISHOP’S ANNUAL APPEAL - Donate now!
A gift to the Annual Appeal helps the sacramental life of the Church to reach people and the message of the Gospel to touch hearts.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: WORLD MISSION SUNDAY (OCTOBER) - Donate now!
The first worldwide Mission Sunday collection took place October 1927. The annual collection is always on the last Sunday during the month of October. The day is celebrated in all the local Churches, so Christians the world over will recognize their common responsibility with regard to the evangelization of the world.

ARCHDIOCESAN COLLECTION: RELIGIOUS RETIREMENT (DECEMBER) - Donate now!
The Retirement Fund for Religious (RFR) provides restricted grants to any religious institute in the U.S. It distributes both basic, supplemental and special assistance retirement grants from the fund to religious institutes based on a formula and criteria approved by the conferences of major superiors and bishops. Annual appeal begun in 1988 is approved through 2007.

VISITING MISSIONARY - Donate now!
We support our visiting missionaries with a collection of funds for their evangelization efforts.