Special Appeal for Families in Need

Our Parish accepts the mandate of “assisting those in need.” It is a commitment which plays out in very practical way — providing financial help to a family facing eviction, offering a supermarket food card to a person without milk, eggs, or bread in the kitchen, helping a family to get medicine for a sick child — the list of “real-life” examples is long. The Social Justice and Peace Commission of the Parish acts on that mandate and has an established procedure for assessing each request and deciding what can be done. Our response is a multi-step process: obtaining details from the person making the request; determining if the individual/family needs to be registered with other community programs for regular assistance; and guiding them in taking action, providing payments to the rental office/supplier/utility for the unpaid bill. Requests for parish assistance are varied: some are parishioners of Holy Eucharist, some are people residing in our towns. Being a parishioner is not the decisive factor — having an emergency is the key. At this point in early April, our fund for assisting the needy is low and it has been a long and difficult winter for many in our communities. We ask parishioners to consider a donation to the “Needy” program of the our Parish. Donations can be submitted to the parish office to the attention of Melissa Bagdon. You may also easily donate through We Share, clicking the button to the right or the link below. Your generosity will truly help, and we thank you.