With your support, Catholic Missions In Canada is providing:
Grants for Missionaries’ Needs: $1,767,089 (45%)
Grants for Church Repairs and Maintenance: $1,037,657 (27%)
Grants for Lay Formation: $384,679 (10%)
Grants for Religious Education: $351,175 (9%)
Education of 41 Seminarians from 10 Dioceses: $383,500 (9%)
Total mission grants: $3,924,100 (100%)
Examples of your gifts at work in 2012
Grants for Missionaries
Travel and sustenance expenses for 80-year-old Father Rodrigue Vézina, O.M.I., as he ministers in the remote Northern Ontario First Nations communities of Attawapiskat and Peawanuck:
Travel and Sustenance Grant for Father Vézina: $10,000.
Religious Education
While priests can not always travel to the remote
Religious Education Grant to St. Peter’s Parish,
Church repairs and maintenance
Funding from Catholic Missions In Canada will install an entrance ramp, repair the church roof, sound-proof confessionals and put on a new rectory roof at St. Michael’s church in Ross River, Yukon.
Building and Repair Grant to St. Michael’s
Support of lay formation
Lay formation programs in rural Saskatchewan missions ensure that in the absence of a priest, community leaders are qualified to lead lay-led liturgies, catechesis and sacramental preparation classes. This year, 650 adults are taking part in formation programs throughout the Prince Albert Diocese.
Lay Formation Grant to Diocese of
‘The allocations will be most beneficial for the ministry in many of my smaller parishes and the special ministry to our First Nations people. Long distances, smaller populations, economic hard times and difficulties with the pulp and paper industry have seriously affected all of us in the North.’
Most Rev. Fred J. Colli
Bishop of Thunder Bay, Ontario
Thank you
“The work of Catholic Missions In Canada will never be fully understood in this life. I thank God for the generous support of my fellow Canadians who give to Catholic Missions In Canada; otherwise, many poor parishes throughout the country will truly find themselves with very little to live on.”
Father Aidan Devine
Maria Regina Parish
Port-au-Port East, Newfoundland
Diocese of Corner Brook and Labrador
“Our church needs people like Catholic Missions In Canada’s donors”
“My sincere thanks to Catholic Missions In Canada for the generous support of my diocese and its people. The allocations will be most beneficial for the ministry in many of my smaller parishes and the special ministry to our First Nations people. Long distances, smaller populations, economic hard times and difficulties with the pulp and paper industry have seriously affected all of us in the North.”
Most Rev. Fred J. Colli
Bishop of Thunder Bay, Ontario
“Support from Catholic Missions In Canada donors allows me to continue my ministry of offering hope and giving faithful witness to the love and healing power of the Gospel among the First Nation, Métis and Inuit people of the Peace River region.”
Sister Mary Jeanne Davidson
Little Buffalo, Duncan, and Cadotte Lake; Northern Alberta
Archdiocese of Grouard-MacLennan
“In their name, I thank you very much, and we will pray the Lord bless you generously for your care of the little ones.”
Father Rodrigue Vézina, O.M.I.
Attawapiskat, Peawanuck; Northern Ontario
Diocese of Moosonee
