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Support For St. Brigit's

Fr. Philip and Amma Charlene Genuflect Before the Altar

Support for St. Brigit's Community Catholic Church and this website has, thus far, come totally out of our personal pockets.

All St. Brigit's Community Catholic Church clergy are unpaid by the church, meaning we do not receive a wage or stipend. That said wedding planners and funeral homes do pay clergy a fee as these are time involved and often hard, though wonderful work. Beyond that we hold jobs, run separate businesses and raise our families just as the rest of our congregations do.

We do not take up a collection plate during the communion offering but a donation box to cover space rentals or church building expenses is permissible and may be necessary. Such a box placed near the doors where services are held can allow discrete donations without placing expectations on the congregation.

Those attending services can drop change or small bills into such boxes to help cover the rent on spaces being used. When the building is church owned such donation box offerings help cover ongoing operating and maintenance costs of the building, ensuring its ongoing availability to the community using it.

Remember St. Brigit's Community Catholic Church is a federally registered not for profit and, as such we cannot give receipts for tax purposes.

This does not prevent those in our congregations or those who choose to offer support for St. Brigit's, our mission and work from tossing in the price of a coffee to lighten our personal costs of providing the sacraments to any who seek them.

Under St. Brigit’s Community Catholic Church corporate rules, such donations go directly into church bank accounts where directors and committee members can ensure the monies are used as intended.

This stipulation is not a reflection of lack of trust but of legitimate corporate requirements and public transparency. Likewise there are financial annual reporting requirements to the board of directors and to the government taxation department for all incomes and spending.

Clergy may be unpaid but it is unlikely and perhaps unfair that any of them alone can or should carry the expenses of buildings or rental space, vestments, altar ware, missals, hymnals and more.

We willingly give all that we can and are Blessed to be able to accomplish as much as we do. We have always known that not being a burden to our congregations meant we would have to do most of the funding ourselves. This does place limits on how much we can do as our finances are limited.

We can do so much more with a little support from those who find value in what we do. We will have a donation button for those who simply wish to help our direct ministry efforts yet do not wish to receive any E books in return.

Support For stbrigits.ca

Fr. Philip and Amma Charlene

While the information we provide on this website and in seminary training is free, it is on a website and, therefore, not as easy to use or reproduce as E book contents would be. It also takes a great deal of time, energy and knowledge, supported by research and experience to develop a website such as this.

The time spent on this site, while a labor of love, is time away from any other income producing activities. Plus the website itself is an ongoing cost.

Thus we will add donation button/s on the website where we will provide the information from each area of the site in an E book, in return for said, small donations of support for St. Brigit's web development and upkeep costs.

For example, one E book will cover all of the information from the About Us page sub-pages on the Human Resources Considerations, laws, policies, even forms for reporting. Another would contain all the information from those sub pages directly relating to Clergy Information, reports, ethics, rights and more. (Over 10,000 words in each of these E books.)

Readers who choose to offer support for stbrigits.ca and our work online , as well as our hands on ministry efforts, will be able to select the E book of their choice when making their donation. As our site grows and each topic area is filled up we will add the appropriate E book choices for those areas also.

We think offering readers the opportunity to place a small donation for the information they are specifically interested in having is preferable to flooding this site with unrelated ads, placed in an effort to recoup our costs.

Support For St. Brigit's

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