Extension magazine - Spring 2023
A beautiful mosaic of St. Patrick is displayed on St. Patrick Cathedral in the Diocese of El Paso, Texas. He is the patron of this majority-Hispanic community, as well as many other Catholic Extension-supported diverse faith communities across the country.Today, his story of resilience and faith resonates with the descendants of those who fled hunger and poverty in Ireland, as well as refugees finding new homes in America.
A beautiful mosaic of St. Patrick is displayed on St. Patrick Cathedral in the Diocese of El Paso, Texas. He is the patron of this majority-Hispanic community, as well as many other Catholic Extension-supported diverse faith communities across the country.Today, his story of resilience and faith resonates with the descendants of those who fled hunger and poverty in Ireland, as well as refugees finding new homes in America.
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8 BUILD Mission Needs<br />
<strong>Extension</strong> | <strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 9<br />
PLEASE SUPPORT LENTEN<br />
ALMSGIVING OPPORTUNITIES<br />
Your donation will support a poor faith community in need this Lent and help keep the<br />
presence of the Catholic Church strong in our country. To contribute to one of these<br />
projects, please contact us at <strong>magazine</strong>@catholicextension.org or call 1-800-842-7804.<br />
Chalan Kanoa<br />
TREMONTON UTAH<br />
Santa Ana Catholic Church is a rural<br />
mission in northern Utah. It was established<br />
in 2005.<br />
Your donation will<br />
help support the<br />
salary of Father<br />
Francisco Pires and<br />
his extensive travel<br />
costs to reach this<br />
faith community<br />
where Catholics are<br />
a small minority of the population.<br />
RED LAKE MINNESOTA<br />
The original St. Mary’s Mission (pictured here)<br />
on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in the<br />
Diocese of Crookston was<br />
unfortunately destroyed<br />
in a fire in December<br />
2017. The community of<br />
Ojibwe Native American<br />
Catholics has been<br />
holding Mass in the<br />
school gymnasium ever<br />
since. Your donation will<br />
support the construction of a new church for<br />
this beautiful faith community.<br />
Guam<br />
Caroline Islands<br />
Marshall Islands<br />
Samoa-Pago Pago<br />
FORT HANCOCK TEXAS<br />
Sister Silvia Chacón,<br />
ASC, is the only<br />
person on staff at<br />
Santa Teresa Church<br />
in the Diocese of<br />
El Paso. Catholic<br />
<strong>Extension</strong> helped<br />
build the church in<br />
1937. Your donation<br />
will support Sister Silvia’s salary at the<br />
church, where she fulfills every role from<br />
choir director, minister to the sick and<br />
families, and even handywoman when<br />
facility repairs are required.<br />
LAFAYETTE LOUISIANA<br />
This southern Louisiana<br />
diocese is blessed<br />
with an abundance of<br />
priestly vocations. The<br />
diocese has ordained<br />
25 priests since 2015<br />
and is on track to<br />
ordain seven more by<br />
2025. Your donation<br />
will support the cost to feed, house and<br />
educate the 30 seminarians who are<br />
currently discerning a call to priesthood in<br />
the diocese.<br />
EXTENSION DIOCESES<br />
MARICAO PUERTO RICO<br />
Maricao is a town in the<br />
mountains of Puerto<br />
Rico. More than half<br />
of its population lives<br />
below poverty. Catholic<br />
<strong>Extension</strong> supports the<br />
parish and its religious<br />
sisters. The sisters<br />
feed the hungry, visit<br />
the sick, tutor school-age children and<br />
offer a social enterprise to economically<br />
empower impoverished women. Your<br />
support will fund their critical work in this<br />
community.<br />
Hawaii<br />
ISSION NEEDS<br />
Your donation will be applied to a similar need should your<br />
specified project be fully funded before we receive your support.<br />
Thank you!<br />
Puerto Rico<br />
St. Thomas-<br />
Virgin Islands
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