Stewardship of Our Resources: Air Conditioning

Are you comfortable at Mass?

With July temperatures normally ranging from merely warm to outright nasty, you might hesitate before going out your door, but you know that our basilica will be a place where we can all worship together as one family in grateful celebration of all that God has given us.

You also know that we can gather without the distraction of the heat and humidity that can affect us all, especially our elderly and disabled.

It is due to the generosity of our fellow parishioners that we are able to focus on the essentials of our faith at Mass, and fully experience the dedicated work of our music ministry, our celebrants and homilists, our ushers, and all others who make our weekend services a rewarding and joyful experience.

We hope you read Fr. Simon’s letter in last week’s bulletin about our air conditioning resource, an over 60-year-old system which we depend upon to cool a very large volume of air seven days a week.  That system is on its last legs and will need to be finally replaced at a cost of $700,000.  Our plan is to fund this project out of our operating budget over the next few years but that will require the continued generous support of our parishioners.

Our electric bills and other ongoing expenses of our basilica are also paid for out of our operating budget.  Please remember this when you consider your level of  weekly Sunday support for our parish.