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8 APRIL 27-MAY 10, 2019 | DENVER CATHOLIC Around the Archdiocese BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY! Marisol Health invites you to For men who rise up to the challenge of being the Sons, Husbands, Fathers and Brothers they were meant to be! Men's Breakfast A Fundraising Event for Marisol Health Thursday, June 20, 2019 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: CURTIS MARTIN Husband, Father, Founder and CEO of Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) The Denver Athletic Club 1325 Glenarm Place | Denver, CO 80204 7:00 a.m. Mass celebrated by Bishop Jorge Rodríguez, Ph.D. Worship lead by Matt Miller 7:45 a.m. Breakfast & Program $100 per person | $800 per table of 8 | $1,000 Sonrise Sponsor For information, tickets or sponsorship information, please contact Shelly Saeman at ssaeman@ccdenver.org or 720.799.9289 ccdenver.org/Sonrise BY AARON LAMBERT aaron.lambert@archden.org Lead others to Christ with a generous gift Annual Archbishop's Catholic Appeal benefi ts parishes, nearly 40 ministries and much more I t's a question you probably ask yourself every year: How far does the money you give to the² Arch- bishop's Catholic Appeal²really go? The answer is simple:²Really²far, and yes, it makes all the diž erence in the world. The annual Archbishop's Catholic Appeal o¢ cially launches April 27. The ACA benefi ts nearly 40 ministries within the Archdiocese of Denver, each of which play a crucial part in the opera- tion of the Catholic Church in northern Colorado as a whole. Last year's appeal raised more than $10 million in dona- tions, which were invested directly into those ministries. "This year, I'd like to stress how your gift will have a real and lasting impact in the lives of others and in our world," Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila wrote in a letter to the archdiocese. "Your willing- ness to imitate Christ's life of service to all, through your charity to the appeal, will shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, protect the unborn, instruct our youth, evangelize college students, nourish vocations, comfort the elderly and draw many to a deeper union with Christ." As Father Dollins, Vicar General for the archdiocese, puts it, it does fund some of the less glamorous parts of Church administration, but in doing so, it supports all ministries and allows them to focus on doing what they were created to do: namely, ministering to people and leading them to Christ. Additionally, "there's a lot of aspects of the diocese that don't have the means to do their own fundraising and probably shouldn't spend time trying to do their own fundraising," Father Dollins said. "The ministry should be able to just be the ministry." Each parish has an ACA fundraising goal based on the total annual ož ertory for the parish. However, funds raised from the ACA have the potential to benefi t parishes, too. A two-tier parish rebate program was implemented sev- eral years ago as an incentive for par- ishes to encourage parishioners to give to the ACA. "If everyone's pulling to give to their parish, not only are they giving to the nearly 40 ministries, but at a certain level, a percentage goes back to the parish and helps them as well," Father Dollins explained. "It's a win for the whole diocese and for the whole parish."

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