St. Pius X Church

August 2, 2020

Dear Parishioners, Donors, Volunteers, and Visitors:

As your Pastor, I am very happy to see the number of participants increase in the Outdoor Saturday Vigil Vietnamese Mass and Sunday Spanish & English Masses.   Thank you to all of you for your dedication to Our Church.    

Special gratitude is extended to our communities’ leaders for gathering, coordinating, and motivating our parishioners to attend in person and participate in the Holy Eucharist.  I would like to commend our Ushers, who are the instruments of grace in generating the financial support to maintain the structural set up of Our Church. 

I am gratefully to more people than I can name in this letter; including the background donors, who provide financial support even though they are unable to attend the services nor assist manually due to personal reasons; the prayerful groups who continue in the path of silent prayer in their private homes; the visitors passing by, who drop off donations through the Rectory Office Mail Slot; the parishioners, who creatively install aids to enhance outdoor celebrations and so on.

As your Pastor, it is my duty to keep you informed of the Finances of Our Church.  Since the closure of the churches in March, we suffered financially and we continue to decrease the costs of running a business through the process of elimination.  Only the utility and insurance expenses remain in our budget; there is minimal payroll costs resulting from medical/dental mandatory payments for our Staff to keep them employed in Our Church. Overall, the money coming in is less than the money going out for mandatory financial obligations. 

We resume Week-day Mass schedule starting August 3, 2020.  We are starting to celebrate more sacramental services outdoors within the CA guidelines. Anything that you do and can continue to do for Our Church is greatly appreciated by me and everyone in the parish.  

Sincerely in Christ,

Fr. Art
Pastor