DSF Annual Report 2019

A 2019NNUAL DSF FEST 644_full pg ad.pdf 1 12/12/18 4:14 PM REPORT 2019 No Se Olviden De CHIA SE Con Otros Lo Que Tienen C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Keep doing good works and sharing“ your resources, for these are the kinds of sacrifices that please God. 2019 Hebrews 13:16 ” Diocesan Services Fund Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston archgh.org/dsf Please consider a generous gift to the Diocesan Services Fund. PAGE 2 2019 DSF Annual Report DSF 20% Promoting, Preparing DSF 2019 and Supporting the Clergy 20% How Your 25% Nurturing and Strengthening 25% 14% Ministering 2019 DSF Families to the Poor, the 14% Sick and the Gifts Were Incarcerated Distributed A B 35% 3% Aid to Poor Parishes 35% C Teaching, 3% Rebates to Parishes Evangelizing and Worship D less than 1% Special Grants Teaching, Evangelizing and Promoting, PreparingE and Aid to Poor Parishes Fund 3% Worship 35% Supporting the Clergy 20% In 1968 Bishop John L. Morkovsky, tasked Rebates to Parishes 3% Ministries charged with this mission Vocational ministries address the full then Father Joseph A. Fiorenza, now administer the largest private school range of support for the clergy from Archbishop Emeritus, and a committee Special Grants less than 1% system in Texas and sustain numerous the beginning stages of discernmentF to of priests and laymen to find a way to In addition to the Archdiocesan ministries religious education programs serving retirement. These ministries offer education regularly help support the poorer parishes and agencies indicated above, special more than 100,000 people of all ages. and formation of men for the priesthood in our Archdiocese. They created the Aid grants are awarded to ministries They also promote the Catholic faith, and permanent diaconate as well as G to Poor Parishes program, which asked and agencies operating within the reach out to other faiths, advocate for provide direct sacramental and pastoral all pastors to donate 10% to this effort Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston as social justice and support liturgical care, spiritual direction, and fraternal from their Thanksgiving and Christmas determined by Daniel Cardinal DiNardo. and musical ministries throughout the support as they carry out their ministries. collections and tithing from their offertory. Archdiocese. Later, Archbishop Fiorenza gave strong Nurturing and Strengthening support to the program when he initiated Ministering to the Poor, the Sick Families 25% a tax on building parish projects and the and the Incarcerated 14% Family ministries nurture the most DSF rebate program. Parishes that exceed Answering the call to serve the least basic core unit of Christian life by their DSF goal, receive half the surpassed among us, these ministries bring pastoral caring for human and spiritual needs amount and the other half goes to the Aid and sacramental aid to the disadvantaged, of family members. These range from to Poor Parishes Fund. the disabled, and those who are most the spiritual formation of young people This fund benefits our parishes and in need of God’s healing grace. Whether at different ages of development to schools in need through financial aid that This is an abbreviated list of comforting refugees or battered women, providing dignified care for the elderly. allows them to continue valuable ministry the DSF-funded ministries, those confined to a prison cell or hospital These ministries also address the needs programs for children and adults, as for the full list please visit bed, they show compassion to those in of different ethnic constituencies and well as assist with property and building www.archgh.org/DSF. the margins of our society. respect for the sanctity of life. repairs. Goal Amounts, Dollars Pledged and Paid (2015-2019) KEY $13,583,690 GOAL 2015 $15,135,432 PLEDGED $14,809,554 RECEIVED $13,930,150 GOAL 2016 $15,178,992 $14,878,646 PLEDGED $13,938,150 RECEIVED 2017 $15,138,676 $14,866,903 $ 14,079,150 2018 $ 15,122,721 $14,873,910 2019 $14,079,150 $14,487,499 $14,224,221 0 $3 million $6 million $9 million $12 million $15 million 2019 DSF Annual Report PAGE 3 A LETTER from the CARDINAL Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, meet its goal each year since 2005. I, together with the leaders and volunteers of the 60-plus I am pleased to share with you the annual report for the ministries aided by this fund, am moved by the incredible response Diocesan Services Fund (DSF) appeal of the Archdiocese of our parishes continue to provide to our Catholic community. Galveston-Houston for 2019. I thank you again for your gracious During the 53rd year of DSF, you helped to serve thousands of and generous giving. Every gift, no matter the size, helped to make people spiritually and physically with love and compassion. I thank the DSF appeal a success in our local Church. my brother priests for their steadfast support as we had 93 out of This report, covering the appeal year through December 31, 153 parishes meet their goal. 2019, recaps the DSF 2019 campaign which had as its theme, “Do Please accept my gratitude once again for your support. With Not Neglect to Share What You Have.” Because of your generosity, gratitude to God for your faithful discipleship and praying for God’s DSF funds allow us to assist the 60-plus ministries that include the abundant blessings upon you, I am Permanent Diaconate, Office of Vocations, Ethnic Ministry and Office of Pro-Life Activities, to name a few. Together we truly have shared what we have with our brothers and sisters in Christ. Your faithful Shepherd, Our goal for 2019 was $14,079,150. By the end of the pledge period, we received pledges totaling $14,487,499, of which $14,224,221 was paid. The total parish rebate was $443,795. I thank the 40,510 generous donors and sincerely appreciate you! Again, it Daniel Cardinal DiNardo is because of your charitable support that the DSF has been able to Archbishop of Galveston-Houston pledges pledgesdonors More statistics from 2015-2019 pledges donors Number of Donors and Number of Pledges (Gifts) donors 80,000 80,000 KEY 60,000 60,001 61,367 60,509 60,811 80,000 55,232 Number of donors who participated 48,286 47,553 46,041 44,355 60,000 40,000 40,510 Number of gifts; 60,000 A donor could have made more than 40,000 20,000 one pledge 40,000 0 20,000 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 20,000 80% Number of Parishes Over Goal 0 DSF STATS 2015 *Paid by December2016 31 of appeal year 2017 2018 2019 0 72% 72% 63 seminarians were in formation 3,118 were married in the 2015 68% 201669% 2017 2018 at St. Mary2019 Seminary and 7 priests Archdiocese. There were 2,536 60% were ordained in the Archdiocese Catholic marriages and 61% 582 of Galveston-Houston. interfaith marriages. 8,532 infants received the 18,978 adults and children Sacrament of Baptism. There were received their First Communion. 40% also 8,482 one-to-seven year olds baptized and 3,204 adults. 18,260 students attended Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese, More than 97,200 clients were including 5,193 high school 20% served by Catholic Charities, students and 13,067 elementary 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 including 277 children cared for and middle school students. TOTAL PARISH REBATE AMOUNT FOR 2019: $443,795 at St. Jerome, St. Michael and Villa de Guadalupe Residences. 13,766 adults and children The DSF annual report of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston received the Sacrament of is produced by the Development Office and designed by the Secretariat 42 Permanent Deacons were Confirmation; 1,735 adults were for Communications, with support from the Secretariat for Finance. ordained in the Archdiocese of received into full Communion (via Cover photos: DSF Archive Photos; Galveston-Houston. the RCIA program). Cardinal DiNardo photo (page 3): James Ramos/Texas Catholic Herald PAGE 4 2019 DSF Annual Report NO. OF †TOTAL PERCENT OF NO. OF † TOTAL PERCENT OF PARISH NAME DONORS GIVEN GOAL GOAL PARISH NAME DONORS GIVEN GOAL GOAL CENTRAL VICARIATE SOUTHERN VICARIATE All Saints - Houston 151 76,728.70 65,000.00 118% Holy Family - Galveston 357 93,877.96 81,000.00 116% Annunciation - Houston 103 51,393.00 44,200.00 116% Mary Queen - Friendswood 480 203,102.20 165,000.00 123% Assumption - Houston 144 67,654.50 65,000.00 104% Most Holy Trinity - Angleton 209 73,034.12 65,000.00 112% Blessed Sacrament - Houston 55 23,436.53 27,000.00 87% Our Lady of Lourdes - Hitchcock 179 51,881.34 51,000.00 102% Catholic Charismatic Center- Houston 52 12,490.00 57,000.00 22% Our Lady of Perpetual Help - Sweeny 42 11,260.00 9,130.00 123% Christ The King - Houston 150 50,997.11 50,000.00 102% Queen of Peace - La Marque 92 24,744.14 33,320.00 74% Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart - Houston 395 149,329.98 135,000.00 111% Sacred Heart of Jesus - Manvel 287 95,329.84 101,000.00 94% Holy Name - Houston 70 14,906.21 19,000.00 78% Shrine of the True Cross - Dickinson 270 98,172.50 90,000.00 109% Holy Rosary - Houston 212 130,537.82 135,000.00 97% St. Anthony de Padua - Danbury 84 25,080.00 24,880.00 101% Immaculate Conception - Houston 118 33,355.00 35,000.00 95% St. Bernadette Soubirous - Houston 408 152,578.62 184,800.00 83% Immaculate Heart of Mary - Houston 159 39,735.02 36,000.00 110% St.

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