The Vincentian Voice
December 29, 2025

Thank You!

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As we reach the end of this final quarter, and the end of 2025, the members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul wish to once again express their sincere appreciation to the Holy Infant parishioners for their generous financial contributions. The work that we are able to do would not be possible without your support.

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Special thanks go out to the Ladies Sodality and the Knights of Columbus, for contributing to our work in this final quarter. The Ladies provided a much-appreciated financial gift. The Knights assisted us with purchasing 16 Thanksgiving meals that we were able to deliver to some of our families. The families were grateful recipients of this Thanksgiving blessing. Our neighbors called with their thanks telling us how much they truly appreciated the Thanksgiving meal, with a few even expressing that they had never cooked a turkey before!

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The holiday Jesse Tree collection, SVdP member donations, and a contribution from outside our parish allowed us to provide gift cards to 15 families, furnishing Christmas gifts for 47 children. In planning for distribution of the cards, 15 children in 5 families were placed on a waiting list. With the increased contributions this year we were able to give additional gift cards to these children to provide a blessed and unexpected Christmas.

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In addition, we had the opportunity to deliver donated Christmas trees and the ornaments with which to decorate them to three families. To be included in the excitement when the children received this unexpected Merry Christmas was a wonderful experience.

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For the calendar year, a total of $51,788.04 was received from parishioner donations, along with $50,000 from an outside grant. Our total expenditures of $101,788.04 enabled us to help 323 households and a total of 556 people in payment of utilities, rent, and for food and other essentials. Even though calls for assistance in 2025 increased 24% from 2024, we were able to help 19% of the 1,721 calls received, providing an average of $474.06 in assistance per household.

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So again, thank you! We appreciate the prayers and contributions of this community throughout this past year. You are truly the hands and feet of Christ!

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We wish you a blessed and happy new year!
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“We should assist the poor in every way and do it both by ourselves and by enlisting the help of others…. To do this is to preach the gospel by words and work.”

 St. Vincent de Paul

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