The 2025 Easter Appeal is underway! This year is the 30th Anniversary of Project Saint Patrick. The primary business of Project Saint Patrick during the appeal is to raise funds for scholarship grants awarded to Seminarians and Religious. We need every division to participate with a donation to ensure the success of Project Saint Patrick and demonstrate our commitment to our Church. The Donation form can be found on the AOH website under the “Forms” tab at the top. Here’s the link to the Donation form….. https://aoh.com/gobansaer/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025_Project_St_Patrick_Donation_Form.pdf.
Project St. Patrick was created to help our Seminarians on their path of discernment and study to becoming a Priest. Your generous donations throughout the years have positively affected hundreds of Seminarians who have been ordained. We need your continued support to expand our good work. Our Priests do not just appear clothed in their vestments but come from the pew as young men and with your prayers and steadfast support become Seminarians and eventually an ordained Priest.
The next Project St. Patrick zoom call will be on April 29th at 8 p.m. Eastern time with all the various State Project St. Patrick chairs across the country. The goal is to have a quarterly zoom call to help increase the flow of knowledge and information both ways between the National Chair and the State chairs. I’m happy to report that the engagement of the State Chairs is bearing fruit in multiple ways. The dialogue on the calls is very interesting and informative.
I’ve also received information from Brothers from Florida to Montana on Vocation Directors in their respective states that we’ve never received before. So we’ll be able to increase the number of Vocation Directors contacted for the application process. The Vocation Directors are key in the grant application process since they provide the Project St. Patrick application to the Seminarians and write the letters of recommendation.
I encourage all Project Saint Patrick chairs at the Division level, County level and State level to join the next scheduled zoom call. Please email me at kdelaneypsp@yahoo.com if you’d like to receive the link for the next scheduled zoom call.
I’d also like to provide an update on Project Saint Patrick Ireland. President Pender traveled to Ireland in March to present a grant to St. Patrick’s National Seminary in Maynooth. Saint Patrick’s is the only Diocesan Seminary remaining in Ireland. President Pender will be presenting a grant for $25,000 from the National Board to help rebuild the Church in Ireland. We can be proud of our Order’s efforts to support the Seminarians in Ireland.
I’ve added a QR code at the top of this article. The QR code will allow an individual to easily donate to Project Saint Patrick by following the directions on the screen. The use of modern technology makes it easy to contribute to Project Saint Patrick at any time.
I wish my all of my Brothers and their families a fruitful Lent and a Blessed Easter Season.