On the weekend of March 26-27, all parishes throughout the Diocese of Tucson will join with parishes across our nation to take up the annual collection for Catholic Relief Services. While this is an annual collection to support international aid projects, much of those funds will now be diverted to Ukraine relief.
A second diocesan-wide collection will be taken up at all parishes on the weekend of April 2-3 for the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and Pontifical Mission, a papal agency founded by Pope Pius XI in 1926 with direct ties in Ukraine and Poland. The funds from that collection will be forwarded to their partners in Ukraine or in the countries where the refugee population continues to increase dramatically.
Your generosity to these collections will be a great help to a people suffering greatly.
May God bless you abundantly!
+Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger