St. Luke's in Calgary distributed its financial statement for 2014 this morning. It was disgusting. I know I have blogged before about how pissed off I get when the basket is passed and so many people move it along without adding a farthing -- not even a loonie!
Well, the chickens came home to roost when I read the statement. We have 5,000 family members at St. Luke's, but of the $1,091,750 donated in the collection plate, a whopping 3,200 only gave $180,000. And I'm not talking about members of one family, I'm talking about the whole effing family. That works out to about fifty-six bucks a year per family, never mind member -- a little more than a dollar a week for families of maybe five or six. Disgusting.
The rest of the money -- all $911,750 of it -- was given by only 1,800 families. That means the rest of us gave $506. So folks, we give about ten times what everyone else gives. Disgusting.
And don't bang on about these people having no money. They all drive new cars (never seen one older than five years in the parking lot), have expensive watches and clothes and partake enthusiastically of the coffee and donuts provided regularly. All that, plus the fact they hit the Starbucks across the street and pay......I don't even know what?!........for a café whatever. More disgusting.
Where do they think the money to run the parish they frequent comes from? Do they think it comes from the diocese? From Rome? We have many ethnic families in our parish who aggressively don't give, but we also have a lot of young, white trash who don't either. Yet, they make a big splash getting their children baptised and confirmed -- white dresses and all -- using the considerable resources these sacraments demand.
Father David should have dedicated his entire homily to this disgusting (sorry to say it again) state of affairs. But he is a kind shepherd of lost sheep, a nice man, a beatific redeemer of all. Never says an accusatory word against anyone.
Disgusting.
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