I hope you enjoyed the nice weather this week! This week, I want to provide you with a few special invitations and an awesome opportunity to support Catholic education at St. Mary Parish and School!
Mass of Thanksgiving Invite Please keep Deacon David Verbsky, a son of St. Mary Parish, in your prayers this week as he and his classmates spend some time on retreat in preparation for their ordination to the priesthood on Saturday, May 21. It is customary for a newly ordained priest to celebrate his Mass of Thanksgiving at his home parish shortly after his ordination. We will celebrate with Fr. David Verbsky at our noon Mass on Sunday, May 22. I hope you can be there at Mass to pray with us, and continue our celebration at a parish reception in the Banquet Hall following the Mass.
Your Taxes. Their Tuition - Give to the Angel Scholarship Fund! If you are a registered parishioner, you have already received in the mail an invitation to donate to the Angel Scholarship Fund. This weekend, I will be presenting the Angel Scholarship Fund at all parish Masses. In brief, Ohio is the 18th state to implement a tax credit scholarship program for taxpayers to turn their tax dollars into tuition assistance. The Catholic Community Foundation processes donations for this tax credit through the Angel Scholarship Fund. Donors to this fund receive a tax credit (up to $750.00 for single filers, and $1,500.00 for joint filers) to offset their Ohio income tax liability. St. Mary School can be designated to receive these tax credit scholarship funds to provide tuition assistance to our students, at no net cost to you as a donor!
We have to pay our state income taxes anyway, so we might as well take advantage of this tax credit to let the state of Ohio know where we would like our tax money to go. This is a win-win for taxpayers, students, families, Catholic schools, and our parish community. I cannot stress enough the impact this tax credit scholarship can have for our parish and school community. If you pay any state income tax at all, I strongly encourage you to give to the angel scholarship fund, and share this new opportunity with your family and friends.
The more donors we have contributing, the greater the outreach we can have to families wanting a Catholic education for their children.
Read more in today's bulletin, on our website at www. stmarychardon.org/asf.