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Giving Tuesday
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
We are so grateful to our benefactors who make our work at the Guild possible. With your generosity, we are able to implement the Bishop’s vision of The One by allowing Beauty to take root in our Diocese. All of our programs, large and small, need your support to thrive, and many of them happen without a specific financial ask on our part, merely an invitation to ‘come and see.’
We want to do even more – and for our events and programs to be opportunities for a graced encounter with Christ – but to do that, we have to ensure they are appropriately resourced and funded. In asking for your help we are not just appealing to your generosity, but asking for you to partner with us in this exciting mission.
We have reached over 60 children in our art school, 22 girls are now part of the new Girls’ Choir and an estimated 1500 people have engaged with Heart to Heart Ministries this past year. We have 45 dedicated volunteers and 30 Sodality members. 60 families are now registered at the Oratory, with more being added all the time, and an estimated 250 people attend Sunday Mass in Georgetown on a weekly basis.
Our plan is to syndicate our programs throughout the diocese – to reach 200 children in our art school by the end of 2024 and to bring the Girls’ Choir to a church near you for concerts of sacred music. Heart to Heart aims to be present in all corners of Fairfield County, helping parishes to harness the power of contemporary Christian music in a thoroughly Catholic way by enabling local musicians to replicate our successful model through formation at the Oratory.
For all these things to happen, we need secure sources of funding, and your generosity at this time of the year is vital to our work. If you are thankful for the ministry of the Guild in your life, please do consider making us a part of your gift-giving this Giving Tuesday. For your prayers and your treasure, we are truly thankful. God’s blessings upon you and your family this Thanksgiving, and our grateful thanks to you for all you can do to support us.