The Summer Dues initiative for the support of priests will launch on the weekend of 13th/14th June.

A letter to you from Archbishop Farrell about this initiative and its importance can be read by clicking this link.

You are invited to read the four italicised paragraphs in the Archbishop’s letter at Masses on the first weekend of the collection.

Available here is a page ‘For parishioners’, with the Archbishop’s message and a note on the tax refund scheme. A poster can be accessed here. These you might make available over the course of the summer on your website, on noticeboards, at the back of the church and in the parish newsletter. Your print provider could be asked to produce some posters if you do not have the facility locally.

An envelope template, available here, includes space for the name, address, phone number and email address of the contributor, in order to record the contribution. It also provides the possibility of giving an envelope number in those parishes where this is helpful.

Enquiries about the Summer Dues collection can be directed to Funding Development Officer Patricia Clifford at patricia.clifford@dublindiocese.ie or 01 8087527.

Support and training is available for parishes from the Finance Secretariat and the Office for Financial Development on the tax on donations scheme.