Archbishop's Appeal Acct. # 056000273 09 IPS

560 - St. Mary Magdalen Church -- Brackettville.



Total Pledged: $1,051.50*

Amount Paid: $451.50

Balance as of 6/1/2009: $600.00 .

*This is a flat 30% of the assessed total of $3,505.00 .


Contrast this -- "¡O amigos mios!" -- with the following:

Money orders and lump sum cash contributions up in smoke in the Fall of 2007: $600.00 in three(3) consecutive weeks' worth of collection basket contributions.

Pastoral reaction to all this:

OPEN hostility. By the Rev. Anton Quang Dinh Van.


Now, we fast forward to:


Special Cash contributions for the Spring of 2009:

Altar Servers (Mrs. Janie DeHoyos) Thursday, January 29, 2009. $100.00. CASH DONATION. "Where did it go, then??!!" :)

Youth Group (Mrs. Maria Elena Molinar and Mrs. Janie DeHoyos), Thursday, January 29, 2009. $300.00 CASH DONATION. "Where did it go, then??!!" :)

Festival Committee (Mr. Cesar Cantu), Sunday, March 29, 2009. $80.00 CASH DONATION -- via Mrs. Janie DeHoyos. "Where did it go, then??!!" :).

Alleged "emergency expenses" (Mrs. Janie DeHoyos), Monday, March 30, 2009. $225.00. CASH DONATION.

NO problem HERE -- in "Where did it go?" (or if we ever get it back) -- BUT!

Was this money "traveling alone," or was there another $480.00 along side, "keeping it company??! " :) .

Pastoral reaction to all this:

ATTITUDE of polite -- and bored -- skepticism. By the Reverend Pius Ezeigbo.