THE IMPACT OF AN ENVELOPE

Lucy Medvec, Diocesan Director of Development

ENVELOPES COME IN ALL SHAPES AND SIZES. They have many uses, can deliver good news (letters, birthday cards) or necessary news (bills), and can change lives. What? How can a folded piece of paper change lives? If you look to your right, you will see what I mean. The envelope attached to the inside of this month’s Catholic Connection will carry a donation – your donation – to our offices and then the possibilities are endless. Each donation to the 2023 Catholic Service Appeal changes lives for thousands of people throughout North Louisiana. I’m not being dramatic when I say that – the gifts that we receive every day strengthen the ministries and in turn, the faith of Catholics throughout the Diocese of Shreveport.

How is this so? Let me give you some examples: Vocations – Not only does your gift support our seminarians in their education and formation, but it also pays for events and resources to recruit future seminarians in our diocese.

Retired Priests – Our retired priests continue to be a part of our diocesan family and receive our support through supplemental health insurance, long-term care needs, and other services.

College Campus Ministry – When students go away to college, we provide opportunities for them to continue their Catholic faith. Our Campus Ministry program covers seven campuses in our diocese (including the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine) and help students with activities, retreats, study sessions, holy hours and more. Catholic Connection Magazine – Did you know that every registered Catholic family in the Diocese of Shreveport receives the Catholic Connection free of charge? This award-winning publication reaches over 10,000 homes 11 months during the year to give information about our faith on the international, diocesan, and parish level. This is solely possible because of donations to the Catholic Service Appeal.

These are just a few of the many ministries that are possible through your donation to the Catholic Service Appeal. Donations that came to us in an envelope. Changing lives.

So please take a moment to write your check and send in your donation in the attached envelope. If you are of the age that does not write checks, make your donation by using the QR code on the envelope or give online at www.dioshpt.org/stewardship. It’s so easy to do.

Flood our post office box with your gift. It will change a life and brighten your day. And it all starts with an envelope.