Make a plan. You can use this as a worksheet. Select or add what is appropriate for your parish at this time. Note that the dates you enter can extend as far into the future as you’d like, and you can also put in things such as “annually in September.”
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Share one of the CCHD videos with your parish social ministry committee |
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Share one of the CCHD videos with your parish council |
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Share one of the CCHD videos with the DRE for use in religious education or RCIA |
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Invite a speaker from a CCHD-funded project to speak after weekend Eucharistic Liturgies prior to the CCHD collection (which takes place the weekend before Thanksgiving) |
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Read the CCHD publications catalogue. Select one justice education resource for use in the parish. |
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Publicize the CCHD justice education website, www.povertyusa.org, in the parish bulletin |
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Co-sponsor with other parishes in your town or Deanery a Poverty and Faithjustice Lenten series |
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As a parish join a CCHD-funded organizing project |
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Work on a plan to increase your parish’s CCHD collection by 10% |
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Get Marketplace Prophets (60 minutes) or For Justice (28 minutes and comes with a study guide) shown on your local cable-access station and publicize it in your parish and deanery. Sign up people in the parish for house meetings to watch the video and discuss it when it is aired. |
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Attend an “action” sponsored by a CCHD-funded project |
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Encourage your parish school or parish religious education program to participate in the CCHD Art Contest |
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Encourage the Small Christian Community groups in your parish to consider using the CCHD Advent or pre-Pentecost prayer booklets |
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Use CCHD t-shirts, pens, notecards, etc. as thank-you gifts in your parish. |
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Order CCHD-bumper stickers and buttons and give them out after the largest weekend Eucharistic liturgy. |
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Invite 4 friends to each join you in hosting an adult discussion group using the five-booklet series of faith-sharing booklets published by CCHD on themes of Catholic social Teaching |
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Contribute at least the equivalent of an hour’s wage to the CCHD collection and encourage others to do so. |
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Publicize the names of the CCHD-funded project(s) in your area in the parish bulletin along with a one-paragraph description. |
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Let the parish know of the total amount collected in the CCHD collection and tell them how much will stay in the Archdiocese (25%) and how much will be used for national grants (75%)…and say thanks! |
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Pray daily for the poor and for the success of CCHD’s support for leadership development in low income communities. |
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Establish an empowerment sub-committee of your parish social ministry committee to be responsible for ongoing planning |
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