The Retirement Fund for Religious (RFR) distributes grants to religious institutes for the retirement needs of senior religious priests, brothers, and sisters. The fund also helps religious institutes plan and manage their retirement needs and programs. Catholic sisters, brothers and religious order priests—collectively known as women and men religious—have selflessly served for decades without significant financial compensation. However, due to escalating health-care costs, numerous U.S. religious communities face a substantial gap between their elderly members’ needs and the financial resources available for their care. Many religious orders currently experience insufficient retirement savings. These funds from the Retirement Fund for Religious collection provided financial assistance for retirement needs for 297 U.S. religious communities, including the Sisters of the Order of St. Basil the Great.
The National Religious Retirement Office (NRRO) has scheduled this year's collection in parishes throughout the Eparchy of Parma on December 9-10. In 2022, parishioners contributed $3,619.00 to the collection. Read this year's press release.
To learn more about the CCC and the projects it supports, visit www.retiredreligious.org.
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Peter’s Pence Collection, is a significant way to support the Universal Church. This collection, supported by Catholics around the globe, funds the ongoing activities of the Holy See and helps the Holy Father reach out to people suffering in our world. For more information on Peter’s Pence, please visit the Vatican’s Peter’s Pence website.
This collection helps people in the US and worldwide to connect with the Catholic faith and build community! Half of the collected funds remain in our Eparchy to support local communications projects. The other half supports the collective communication work of the bishops of the United States as well as other national projects in the United States and around the world. To learn more about the CCC and the projects it supports, visit www.usccb.org/ccc.
The Holy Land collection is taken up in most parishes on Good Friday. In the words of Paul VI is "not only for the Holy Places but above all for those pastoral, charitable, educational, and social works which the Church supports in the Holy Land for the welfare of their Christian brethren and of the local communities." Please visit the Franciscan Monastery's website for more information.
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Since February 2022, more than 10 million people have fled for their lives to neighboring countries—leaving behind loved ones, homes, jobs, and everything familiar. Please view the video above to hear from the people in Ukraine who are directly benefitting from your donations to this ongoing special collection. As of September 2022, we have raised $88,851.97.
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