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Goal: $5,000,000.00
OVER 220 Participants
TOTAL PLEDGED $5,302,901.14 (including match amount)
Total received $2,296,569.12
EXPENSES HAVE INCREASED!
Please consider increasing an existing pledge or making a pledge if you have not already done so.
THANK YOU!

Message from our Bishop
OUR DIOCESAN GOAL: $27,424.00
STRETCH GOAL: $55,000.00
Results as of 11/19/21: 100 Participants with a total of $39,785
$ needed to reach stretch goal: $15,215.00
Please return your pledge card or give online, easily and safely, at www.scdiocese.org
 

FROM THE PASTOR: Dear Parishioners, the 2022-23 Together as One (TAO), Our Diocesan Annual Appeal kicks off on the weekend of September 10-11. We will not have a major announcement in Mass that weekend, because we have a Mission Appeal (see the bulletin for Sept. 4 & 11 for an introduction of the priest and his diocese). I am old enough to remember when this was DDP and then DAA (the subtitle now). Regardless of the title, it has always been one of two ways that all diocesan parishes support the diocesan offices and programs from which we all benefit: 1) Cathedraticum (an annual “tax”); 2) TAO. The amounts of both are computed on ordinary income, which is beneficial to parishes with schools, because the money to support schools is excluded from “Ordinary Income”. 

In addition to the diocesan offices, TAO supports adult and youth conferences and retreats, summer camps for our youth, pro-life activities, marriage preparation programming, religious education, family life programs/events, etc. Out of gratitude for these services and the people who offer them, I hope all of us will be generous to this annual appeal. Last year, Sacred Heart set a $55,000 s-t-r-e-t-c-h goal. IF we are able to reach that goal this year, we will receive back $38,702, because our goal for supporting diocesan offices and programs is $16,298.

 Last year, Sacred Heart Parish must have done very well, because $36,946 was returned to the parish. Let hit that $55,000 goal, and go above and beyond this year!! While the first $16,298 supports diocesan offices and programs, whatever returns to Sacred Heart is a great help to cover our own parish and school expenses. BTW, whatever we give to and get back from TAO is not part of “ordinary income”, so it won’t increase our Cathedraticum or TAO goal. You will receive a letter and pledge card for TAO, which you can use for making your donation. Or you can go to the diocesan website ( scdiocese.org ) and give there. I usually set up monthly payments for January–June for my donation. Do whatever works best for you!

Thank you for your support of the Diocese of Sioux City and Sacred Heart Parish!