HOPE Appeal Update

Sep 11, 2025 | HOPE Appeal

Poster-QR You may bring your completed pledge card to Mass, drop it off at the parish office, or use the return envelope with your letter. You can also make a gift online on the diocesan website at www.syrdio.org/hopeappeal....

HOPE Appeal Update

Nov 14, 2024 | HOPE Appeal

Thanks to the generosity of our parishioners, St. EAS is at 93% of our goal. If you are still waiting to make your gift, please consider a donation this week. It would be great to reach our goal before Thanksgiving! Father O’Connor is also tracking the progress...

HOPE Appeal – We are One Body

Nov 3, 2024 | HOPE Appeal

If we offer the body of Christ on the altar of Mass, then we are offering ourselves. Whenever the church gathers for the sacrifice of the Mass, it is the Church being sacrificed since she is the Body of Christ. If we, as a Church, by definition, are a people of...

HOPE Appeal – an Interconnected Body

Oct 29, 2024 | HOPE Appeal

The Body of Christ is real. St. Paul gives his most in-depth treatment of the Church as the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12. Paul writes similarly in his letter to the Romans: “For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same...

Hope Appeal – Keeping up the Pace!

Oct 24, 2024 | HOPE Appeal

We are one month into this year’s HOPE Appeal and are already over halfway to our goal. This pace is faster than Father O’Connor can run…. But he’s gonna kick up his training schedule to keep up.  Novice runners often fade after a quick start, but the disciplined...