“Christian stewards receive God’s gifts gratefully, cultivate them responsibly, share them lovingly in justice with others and return them with increase to the Lord.”
Automated Giving is a direct debit program whereby your “ gift” is debited automatically from your bank account or charged to your credit card.
Using automated giving makes it easy to fulfill stewardship commitments, even when you can’t attend Mass. It is no longer necessary to bring cash or a check to church. You also help the church to stabilize its budget and to save money because it reduces printing, postage and deposit fees.
If you select the banking option, your specified contribution will be automatically transferred from your checking or savings account to the church’s account. If you select the credit card option, your specified contribution will be charged to your credit card and transferred to the church’s account.
It cost you nothing and saves you time.
You will continue to receive envelopes from the church. The envelopes will include a box you can check that indicates you have opted for automated giving. If you choose to, you can drop these envelopes in the collection basket on Sundays. You are not required to use these envelopes to receive credit for your donations.
We will have only one parish collection each week and one or two second collection each month. The second collection leaves our parish and supports Diocesan programs and the missions. You simply indicate on the authorization form the amount you would like to contribute monthly to these worthy causes.
Your contribution will be deducted on the day you specify. If that date falls on a holiday or weekend day, it will be processed the previous business day. You never have to worry about forgetting an envelope or having cash or a check handy.
Since your contribution is made at a pre-established time, you simply record it in your check register on the appropriate date.
In general banks are stopping the practice of mailing cancelled checks. So, if you select the banking option, your monthly bank statement gives you an itemized list of charges. The monthly statement is your proof of contribution, or if you prefer you can request an annual record.
Automated giving is less risky than check contribution. It has a high rate of accuracy.
Notify us and we will give you a new authorization form to fill out.
You can cancel your authorization by notifying us at any time. But, once you’ve enjoyed the convenience, time and money savings of automated giving, we doubt you will want to go back to making contributions the way you did before.
Complete the authorization form online or contact the Church’s Ministry Office and a form will be sent to you. It is that easy.