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Support UsMaintaining and preserving our parish and its grounds requires significant resources and commitments from parishioners, guests and friends.
Thank you for supporting Pax Christi!
With questions about giving options here at Pax Christi, please reach out to Lisa (Bookkeeper) or Jill (Operations Manager) at the Parish Office.
Electronic
- Bank checks / Bill pay - Just like paying bills online - you arrange with your bank to send a check at any time.
- Bank Account Direct Giving (EFT) Your contribution is electronically withdrawn on the 20th of each month
Text Give to 507-223-3403.
You will receive a response with a link to donate to Pax Christi Parish.Envelopes
- Weekly* Mailed to your home every two months, includes special collections
- Monthly* Mailed to your home every two months, includes special collections. Instead of one envelope per Sunday, you receive one envelope per month
- Supplemental (Found in pews) To receive credit, please write your name on the envelope
* These envelopes are mailed out six times a year at a cost of $900 - $1000 per mailing. Our annual expense is $5400 - $6000.
Planned GivingPlanned giving encompasses a variety of ways that gifts can be made. It usually involves financial or estate planning; however, it is not reserved for the wealthy. Planned giving is a means by which anyone concerned with the wise use of their personal resources makes a considered choice about their ultimate disposition.
- Stock contributions
- Bequest in a Will
- Life Income Gifts - You or your beneficiary are provided income for life in exchange for your gift
- Gifts of Special Assets - These include charitable life estate contracts, personal property donations, life insurance beneficiaries, and retirement accounts
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Supporting Without Spending Money
RaiseRight (formerly $CRIP)
Use your RaiseRight rewards to reduce your family's annual tuition or donate your rewards to another RCS family, the RCS General Tuition Assistance Fund, a Lourdes Foundation scholarship, or to Pax Christi.
When you purchase a gift card from the RaiseRight Program at full face value, you receive a reward of a rebate up to 20% depending on the vendor. Of the total rebate, 75% goes to your family to use in the beneficial ways mentioned above, and 25% goes directly to RCS. A complete listing of the participating stores can be found on the
RaiseRightYou may purchase RaiseRight ($CRIP) at:- Online at the RaiseRight link (through the Rochester Catholic Schools website)
- Lourdes High School RaiseRight office M-Th 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
- Pax Christi
- Donut Sunday (first Sunday of the month during the school year)
- Pancake Sunday (third Sunday of the month during the school year)