The Cardinal McIntyre Fund for Charity Collection will be taken-up next weekend.    In 1951 shortly after he arrived in Los Angeles from New York as Archbishop of Los Angeles, James Francis Cardinal McIntyre recognized that the public agencies were not meeting the needs of those facing hardships.    Thus, Cardinal McIntyre established this fund to be used in support of otherwise unprovided-for charitable works.

Your contributions next weekend help provide such assistance as food and milk for three days.    Lodging for one night.    Emergency medical care.     Once in a lifetime emergency financial help either for rent in a severe crisis situation, or funeral assistance, or emergency medical care to persons who have nowhere else to go.   Funding for prenatal care for a mom who would not otherwise choose to abort a child.

By contributing to this fund, we help feed the hungry!     We give drink to those who are thirsty!    We welcome the stranger!    We clothe the naked!    We comfort the ill!    We give support to sustaining human life!    And so we fulfill the words of Jesus about serving Him in others whose lives we touch:    "For when you did this to one of these my least ones, you did it to Me!" (Matthew 25:40).

Please be as generous as possible.

For those who are tithing, this is another very worthwhile charity with which to share your additional 5% of Tithe unto the Lord.