Passing Through the Narrow Door: Your 2025 Annual Catholic Campaign Gift Opens Hearts and Lives

In the readings for the Annual Catholic Campaign weekend (24 August 2025), Jesus speaks of entering through the narrow door, and many who cannot pass through – not because they’re excluded, but because they’re carrying burdens too heavy to bear.

Your gift to the Campaign this year could be the gentle hand that lifts those burdens. Through your kindness, your gift funds vital ministry, removes barriers and lifts burdens.

Five ways your gift changes lives:

1. You give a child their place at the table
Through the Mary MacKillop Fund, your generosity ensures that financial hardship never becomes a barrier to Catholic education. Like St Mary MacKillop herself, you’re saying “yes” to every child’s right to learn, belong, and thrive in a faith-filled community.

2. You shape tomorrow’s shepherds
At Holy Spirit Seminary, future priests receive an education and formation in mercy. The young men at Holy Spirit Seminary swim against the tide in many ways – your support ensures they’re equipped to be missionaries of mercy, seeking out the burdened and lost wherever they may be.

3. You honour those who’ve served
The Priests Foundation provides dignity and care for our retired priests – the men who’ve walked with us through life’s joys and sorrows. Now, in their later years, your gift ensures we walk with them, providing the essential care and accommodation they deserve.

4. You offer hope in dark moments
Through Centacare’s Pastoral Ministries, your gift reaches into places where burdens feel heaviest – hospital rooms, prison cells, homes torn by violence. Your support continues this vital work, providing psychiatric counselling, family support, and chaplaincy services.

5. You plant seeds in your own backyard
The Annual Grants Program supports creative grassroots ministries right here in our parishes. From youth ministry to prayer programs, from serving the poor to faith education – these aren’t large grants, but their fruits are immeasurable.

Make a monthly gift:
When you commit to a monthly gift, you join the Living Faith Society – a special community of supporters who understand that consistent care creates lasting change. Think of it as the steady hand that doesn’t just lift a burden once, but walks alongside someone on their journey to the feast.

Every dollar given through the Annual Catholic Campaign is carefully spent – not for the Archdiocese, but for those we serve. Your gift this year isn’t just about supporting good works. It’s about recognizing that in lifting burdens from others, we lighten our own load. It’s about ensuring that as many people as possible can pass through the narrow door and join the feast that God has prepared for all.The narrow door is wide enough for everyone – but only if we help each other leave our burdens behind.

Make Your Gift Today
Give monthly: Join the Living Faith Society with a regular gift
Give once: Make a one-time contribution that fits your heart
Give through your legacy: Include a gift in your Will and become an Eternal Guardian of your faith

Tax-deductible gifts support Centacare, Holy Spirit Seminary, The Priests Foundation, and the MacKillop Fund. Non tax-deductible gifts support grassroots ministries through the Annual Grants Program.