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Our Catholic Appeal weekend for 2023 is on February 11th and 12th and all parishes and missions in the Diocese of Orlando are participating. 

Our Catholic Appeal (OCA) is an annual opportunity for every member of our faith family to support the life-changing work and ministries of the Diocese of Orlando.

Gifts to Our Catholic Appeal fund a variety of ministries that serve our nine counties in ways that no parish could alone. Annual gifts to Our Catholic Appeal provide essential funding to ministries that benefit every Catholic parish, school, and family in Central Florida.

This funding provides critical support for our seminarians and retired priests, tuition assistance, health and housing care to people in need, faith programs for children, families, and adults, assistance for migrant workers and the disabled, and outreach programs such as Catholic Charities of Central Florida.

Our Catholic Appeal for 2023

PARISH goal:  $325,269.00

Here is a message from Bishop John Noonan about how Our Catholic Appeal has helped our diocese and our community.

In English

In Spanish

We encourage you to use our online giving portal which offers parishioners a simple, secure means to make and pay your pledge.

Our Catholic Appeal mobilizes our entire diocesan family to support ministries that benefit far more people than we could ever reach alone. You can visit www.cfocf.org/oca to learn more about the life-changing impact of your gifts.

If you received your 2023 Our Catholic Appeal packet in the mail and made your pledge, thank you. If you haven’t made a pledge, I ask you to take a moment to reflect on God’s generosity and how God touches our hearts and soul. By the grace of His acceptance, we receive a pure gift and are changed at that moment. We must proclaim the Good News! May we prayerfully consider a sacrificial gift to proclaim the Good News through the ministries of the Diocese of Orlando.  By supporting the ministries of our diocese, every parish, including our own, is better equipped to carry out the work of Christ.

 

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Our Catholic Appeal is an annual opportunity for every member of our faith family to support the life-changing work of the Diocese of Orlando. Gifts to Our Catholic Appeal fund a wide variety of ministries that serve our nine counties in ways that no parish could accomplish alone.

How your gift to Our Catholic Appeal (OCA) helps others?

Your gifts to OCA are the sole source of funding for 27 ministries that benefit every parish, mission, and school in our diocese. In addition, OCA gifts provide critical support for outreach programs such as Catholic Charities of Central Florida, Hope Community Center, and our schools in the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana in the Dominican Republic, and many more.  In many ways, OCA is similar to a parish offertory, which covers routine expenses and allows the parish to carry out the day-to-day work of the Gospel. In the same way, OCA strengthens our entire local Church by helping to sustain our Diocesan ministries.

Because of your generosity, we are able to:

  • Support seminarians in their formation.

  • Provide food, medical care, and housing to those in need.

  • Organize spiritual enrichment opportunities for both the lay community and our clergy.

  • Train parish catechists and certify new lay ecclesial ministers.

  • Evangelize through diocesan-wide media.

  • Meet with elected officials to discuss issues that affect all people, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.