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Dear Friends,
Sometimes it is difficult to choose just the right gift. This list of mission needs could contain
that unique gift opportunity that you are looking for.
The Missionary Oblates would be honored to dedicate any of these in loving tribute, as you direct.
Thank you for your interest. May God bless you and your loved ones.
Love and prayers,
Fr. Tom Ovalle, OMI
Director
Bro. Ernesto Magan, OMI, serving in the missions near Oaxaca, Mexico. Bro. Ernesto offers Eucharistic services for the poor there. |
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Memorial gifts are usually made in tribute to a deceased person or in remembrance of a past event. Commemorative gifts pay tribute to someone who is living or in celebration of a special event.
If you wish, I will notify whomever you designate, of your thoughtful remembrance. Your gift will be identified appropriately as your memorial or commemorative gift. You and your loved ones will be included in Father Ovalle's special Mass of thanksgiving.
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Nutritional and Medical Needs
1. Nutritional Supplements: Powdered milk and vitamins for malnourished children and elderly in Haiti and Zambia. Treat two for one year:…..$75.00.
2. Blankets: For distribution to the elderly, children and destitute, for warmth on cold winter nights in Central American and Zambian missions. Cost per case:.....$100.00.
3. Medication: For those in the Zambian missions with malaria, the leading cause of mortality there for children under five, or the poor with diabetes in the Haiti missions:.....$200.00.
4. Equipment for Medical Clinics: For many of our mission stations with small clinics, to provide services for the truly impoverished:.....$250.00.
Bibles / Religious Books
5. Bibles: One of the items most requested by our missionaries, for catechists and parishioners in all our missions. Cost per dozen:.....$100.00.
6. Liturgical Books: Books of Catholic Rites, handbooks on ministry for parish use, or a lectionary or sacramentary (English and Spanish versions). Several gifts of: .....$50.00.
Liturgical Items
7. Vestments: Chasubles, stoles and albs for priests celebrating the Holy Eucharist in Oblate missions, seminaries, parishes, retreat centers and retirement homes. Each set: $275.00
8. Travel Mass Kits: For missionaries' use as they celebrate Mass in remote villages, hospitals and chapels. With travel case: $350.00.
Chapel Items
9. Benches: Memorialize a loved one by dedicating a bench for use by those attending outdoor Masses and Novenas at San Antonio's Lourdes Grotto. Cost for each:...$100.00.
Other Mission Needs
10. Tuition and Books: For a year’s study for an elementary-school student where our Oblates minister in Haiti. Fully fund for $375, or three gifts of:.....$125.00.
11. Bicycles: For Zambian seminarians, this is the primary mode of transportation to parishes, hospitals and parishioners' homes to minister to the minister to the ill and dying. Cost per bicycle: $150.00.
12. Vehicle Tires: A valuable gift for our missionaries, who replace tires frequently due to the condition of roads where they serve. Cost per pair of tires:.....$180.00.
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