Treasure
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Ways to Give
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We appreciate your support. Without your help, we'd be unable to fulfill our mission. Your giving makes the work we do possible. What is that work? It's simply this: we're here to help one another make God's love real in our world, in our time. We are deeply grateful for your generosity.
Recently kind parishioners asked, "What's the best way for me to make my donations?" Fr. Chuck smiled in response and said, "Just give! We'll take anything - we've got bills to pay!" Therefore, our first answer is whatever's best for you.
There are giving methods that reduce the labor required to process donations by check whether received in the baskets or by mail. Venmo, online credit card, and automatic bank drafts are the most efficient ways to give.
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Quarterly Stewardship Report
Offertory collections totaled $355,538 between 7/1/23 - 9/30/23. The quarterly budget for offertory is $445,000, so the parish is running $89,462 or 20% behind our budget offertory goal since July 1.
Contributions for Persons in Need totaled $63,172 over the past quarter, which benefit parish Outreach ministries, the Society of St Vincent de Paul, and Micah 6. Contributions for our Beacon of Hope capital campaign totaled $130,556 over the past quarter.
Thank you for your generosity and support for our ongoing ministries, our neighbors in need and our new campus that will nurture learning and spiritual growth into the future.
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Donor-Advised Funds & Stocks
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Donor-Advised Funds
A donor-advised fund is a charitable giving program that allows you to combine tax benefits with the flexibility to support St. Austin.
When you make a gift, using a donor-advised fund, this is the required information:St. Austin Catholic Parish
2026 Guadalupe St.
Austin, TX 78705
Tax ID: 74-1295632
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Stocks
The gift of stock offers tax benefits to the donor while supporting St. Austin. Please complete the following when donating stock to the parish:
1. Initiate transfer
Please contact [email protected] for the required account information your securities firm or broker will need.
2. Notify us of the gift
Please email [email protected] with the name and quantity of stocks, so that we can provide a receipt of the donation.
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Stewardship Information
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Making your stewardship commitment is something that doesn't take long but makes a significant impact our our parish's ability to plan our liturgies, programs, and routine facility maintenance.
We rely exclusively on the support of our community and we are grateful for your generosity.
If you encounter a problem contributing online, please contact [email protected].
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Resources on Stewardship
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To Be a Christian Steward:
A Summary of the U.S. Bishops' Pastoral Letter on Stewardship"As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace"
~1 Peter 4:10
What identifies a steward? Safeguarding material and human resources and using them responsibly are one answer; so is generous giving of time, talent, and treasure. But being a Christian steward means more. As Christian stewards, we receive God's gifts gratefully, cultivate them responsibly, share them lovingly in justice with others, and return them with increase to the Lord.
Read more at USCCB
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A steward is one who manages and administrates what has been entrusted to her or him by another. For us, we are stewards of what God has given us, which is everything. Therefore, stewardship is the careful and responsible management of all that God has entrusted to our care.
The three traditional legs on the stewardship stool are often listed as TIME, TALENT, AND TREASURE. In regard to “time,” God’s perspective of time is very different than ours. For God all time is but an instant, but we measure and view our time in specific amounts and allotments.
For example, to us, the following outlines what we see as time:
1 DAY = 24 HOURS; 1,440 MINUTES
1 WEEK = 168 HOURS; 10,080 MINUTES
1 MONTH = 730 HOURS; 43,829 MINUTES
1 YEAR = 8,766 HOURS; 525,949 MINUTES
Stewardship calls us to view all time as gift, as it surely is. We understand that each of us receives gifts in differing amounts — at least as far as talents and treasure go. However, we all have the same amount of time, at least in terms of minutes in a day, etc. The key to good stewardship is how each of us uses that time.
In addition to Sunday Mass, do we give other time to the Lord and in service to others? There are many ways to be a good steward of God’s time — prayer, Scripture reading, Eucharistic Adoration, time with our family, helping those in need in our parish and in our community, sharing time with others.
When we come to the realization that it is God’s time, not ours, then we are better able to be good stewards.
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Bishop Robert Barron, discusses discipleship in a video (11 min) from Wordonfire.org.
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These charts serve as a guideline to help you determine an appropriate level of giving based on your means. The charts are only suggestions. If everyone makes a commitment to the best of their financial ability, St. Austin’s Finance Council, Pastoral Council and Pastoral Staff will be able to plan for the future accordingly. Thank you for prayerfully considering your commitment level.
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What are you looking for?
~John 1:38
One's life is defined by one's commitments. The focus/purpose of one's commitments will determine the course of one's life. The effort spent in living out such focused commitments will determine the quality of one's life. A committed person emerges clearly from the chaos. Unless we say "yes" too easily and too often. That is, our commitments do not have a focus, a driving principle. When we fall into this whirlwind of commitments, it becomes harder to differentiate between one commitment and another; and then they all become fragile. So whether we are uncommitted or over-committed we need a true focus. Drawing from the practices and teachings of our Catholic faith, here are a number of examples of what focused commitment can look like.
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