Living Our Mission During These Challenging Times

The Four Pillars of Stewardship are Hospitality, Formation, Prayer, and Service. These pillars offer us guidelines to live a stewardship way of life by providing opportunities to share our time, talent, and treasure.

With our current social distancing restraints, we may find it challenging to find opportunities to live a stewardship way of life — but yet, we are still called to fulfill our mission, the work of the Church.

We can share our time through hospitality and service. Hospitality can take many forms. In our parish office, Care Coordinator Isa Montes calls those in our parish who are homebound, suffering, and lonely. What can you do in your homes to offer hospitality to your family members, neighbors, and those in need?

Service can take many forms in our parish and our community. Many of our service ministries continue to serve. Martha’s Meals continues to provide lunches on Saturday morning to shut-ins in our community.

For service opportunities, please contact our parish Volunteer Coordinator Jenny Funk by email at volunteercoordinator@saintphilipneri.org.

Our parish website — www.saintphilipneri.org — and parish bulletin are available to provide many opportunities for formation and spiritual prayer.

FORMED is an online program providing Catholic content to help parishes, families, and individuals explore their faith anywhere, anytime. Movies, children’s programs, eBooks, videos, and much more are available to you free of charge.

Our need for prayer may be stronger now than ever. We offer Virtual Prayer and Liturgy of the Hours, all accessible via Zoom. If you are unable to attend Mass with us in the Church, access our parish website to join us online for the 9:30 a.m. Mass every weekend, and the daily Mass.

Sharing our treasure is challenging for many in our faith family. Just as many of you have had to cut back or do without, we are doing the same. Losing the ability to gather at the church has made it difficult to receive your offerings. Our main source of income is our offertory collections — Sunday, Christmas, and Holy Days. Ending January, our offering deficit totaled over $100,000. Your weekly offerings provide for over 90 percent of our income. With the loss of offerings, we continue to look for ways to cut our expenses to offset our deficit.

Through all of our challenges, we know that our Lord rose from the dead to proclaim victory over death. We are also called to rise — rise over our daily challenges and proclaim victory. May this Easter season give you joy, hope, and comfort.

Online Giving at St. Philip Neri

During these difficult and uncertain times, our efforts to stay connected continue with our online presence. The evangelization work of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church and our outreach to those in need is ongoing. Many of you have asked how you can continue to support our efforts. Here are the variety of ways to give online:

Secure Online Giving: St. Philip Neri’s Green Option

This environmentally responsible choice can be initiated either by you at https://saintphilipneri.org/ giving/ or by contacting the parish office. Through our online giving service provider, Vanco, options include single or recurring donations to a variety of funds in any amount desired. Vanco allows you to use debit/credit cards as well as checking/savings accounts. Changes are easily accomplished after initial setup. Give a single gift or easily schedule recurring giving using your credit card.

Online Automatic Bill Pay

Contributions are initiated by you through your personal banking bill-pay service. Please remember to reference your parishioner number and desired fund on the check.

Text Giving

Managing your charitable giving straight from your smartphone to facilitate one-time or recurring donations. Please text 803-302-3047 to get started.

You may also mail in your donations to: St. Philip Neri Catholic Church 292 Munn Road East Fort Mill, SC 29715