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CSA supports Church in Central and Eastern Europe

February 06, 2008

With a love that brings radiant light, Catholics in the United States help to build parishes in many distant places through the Collection for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe which is taken up throughout the country on Ash Wednesday, February 6, 2008. In the Diocese of Gaylord, this collection is supported by gifts to the annual Catholic Services Appeal (CSA).

The theme for the 2008 Collection — “Love is the Only Light” — draws on the Holy Father’s first encyclical. Pope Benedict XVI writes, “Love is the light—and in the end, the only light—that can always illuminate a world grown dim and gives us the courage needed to keep living and working.” (God Is Love [Deus Caritas Est], no. 39)

Since 1990, Catholics in Central and Eastern Europe have counted on the solidarity of their brothers and sisters in the United States to help rebuild their Church. This collection directly assists the Church in 28 countries, not only in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the former Soviet Union, all the way to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Together we are bringing the light of God’s love to places once covered by a pall of darkness.

Catholics in the United States through their contributions to the Collection to Aid the Catholic Church in Central and Eastern Europe, and we in the Diocese of Gaylord through the diocesan CSA, help restore the light to the people of this region by our gifts and by praying for our brothers and sisters in the region.

For more information, please visit the USCCB website.