Where does the Mass monetary offertory goes?

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I’ve heard that 10% stays on the parish and the rest is sent to the diocese. From there 10% stays and the rest goes to the Vatican. Is this true? If not, how it goes?
 
It sounds like you have been talking to some Protestants!
I do not know about Canada, but the reverse is most likely true in the US. I would think that in most US Dioceses, no more than 15% goes to the Bishop because the cost of maintaining the Church and Rectory buildings is very expensive, and I am not even thinking about the cost of keeping the place clean. Then there is the cost of candles (genuine beeswax candles cost a fortune today), and keeping the vestments clean and in good repair…and I have not even considered the cost of charity to individuals!
I also think that the Bishops would also send 10% to 14% of their income to Rome. The rest of their money goes to pay for a professional staff required to run any large organization today (not everything can be done by priests, friars, and nuns today), and to subsidize poor parishes and poor parochial schools. In the US we do not have state support of Catholic schools as you do in Canada - it is against our National Constitution.
 
fabio_rocha said:
I’ve heard that 10% stays on the parish and the rest is sent to the diocese. From there 10% stays and the rest goes to the Vatican. Is this true? If not, how it goes?
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I have never heard that. It would be impossible to run our parish and support our local ministries if we gave that much away. Our average weekly collection is around $3500. That has to pay all the utilities, the church staff, school staff, insurances, and maintenance costs. Generally the diocese gives us money to keep our school open.
 
In Australia we have two collections! The first goes to support the school system. As I was educated by the Christian Brothers, for obvious reasons I have never given a cent to this collection. The rest goes to the parish with a very small percentage going to the diocese to support churches that don’t support themselves. The priest gets a miserable stipend with a small car allowance. I don’t know how they can live on it.
Reminds me of the new parishioner who was a bit pleased with himself when he was asked to take up the collection, as he saw it as a sign he was accepted in this very stodgy parish.
He put his hand in his pocket and found to his horror that he only had a hundred dollar note. I’ll get change at the end he thinks to himself as he puts the note on the plate. Needless to say no one saw his apparent generosity, but he was spotted taking $80 from the full plate. Needless to say he was never asked to take up the plate again. Such is parish life!
 
fabio_rocha said:
I’ve heard that 10% stays on the parish and the rest is sent to the diocese. From there 10% stays and the rest goes to the Vatican. Is this true? If not, how it goes?
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Doesn’t your parish publish a financial statement each year? It should. As a registered charity all of its financial information is available to the public online from the Charities Directorate so if you’re really concerned you can just check there.

As a rule most of the collection stays in the parish with about 10% going to the diocese to pay for its expenses.
 
Phemie said:
Doesn’t your parish publish a financial statement each year? It should. As a registered charity all of its financial information is available to the public online from the Charities Directorate so if you’re really concerned you can just check there.

As a rule most of the collection stays in the parish with about 10% going to the diocese to pay for its expenses.
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**That can be quite likely to interest would-be thieves! My parish does publish a type of financial statement. It only says what % of the total was spent on what.

**Of course, it provides the diocese with the required, audited, financial statements.

Our parish is a Stewardship parish (as are most of the parishes in the diocese). That means that there is only one collection at each of the Sunday Masses - ever. When Stewardship was introduced about 18 years ago, money collected increased exponentially! It was amazing and has continued to increase. Most of the money is needed to run the parish. We also use money collected from the annual food fair to assist poorer parishes, with great success.
 
fabio_rocha said:
I’ve heard that 10% stays on the parish and the rest is sent to the diocese. From there 10% stays and the rest goes to the Vatican. Is this true?
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LOL! Most parishes around here couldn’t even afford to keep the lights on if that were the case.
 
Our envelopes have “JMJ” on them. So I assume they’re for funding the Jewish-Masonic-Jesuit conspiracy. 😃
 
fabio_rocha said:
I’ve heard that 10% stays on the parish and the rest is sent to the diocese. From there 10% stays and the rest goes to the Vatican. Is this true? If not, how it goes?
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No that is not true.

The money collected in the offertory is used to support the day to day operation and needs of the parish-- heat, air, salary of staff, sacramental and liturgical supplies, repairs, etc.

In addition, there are special collections that go to various missions and needs of the wider church. Those are designated collections.

Third, most dioceses have an annual bishop’s appeal. Each parish has a target, and people are asked to donate specifically to that fund. If the target is not met, the parish may be responsible for paying the balance from operating funds.

And lastly, there is a cathedraticum, a tax the parish pays to the diocese. That is somewhere between 5-10% of their annual offertory. That is set by the bishop.

All of this is governed by universal canon law and by the particular law of the diocese in which you live.

So, it is just abgout opposite of what you wrote here-- about 10% goes to the diocese and the rest is for the parish.
 
Joan_M said:
**That can be quite likely to interest would-be thieves! My parish does publish a type of financial statement. It only says what % of the total was spent on what.

**Of course, it provides the diocese with the required, audited, financial statements.

Our parish is a Stewardship parish (as are most of the parishes in the diocese). That means that there is only one collection at each of the Sunday Masses - ever. When Stewardship was introduced about 18 years ago, money collected increased exponentially! It was amazing and has continued to increase. Most of the money is needed to run the parish. We also use money collected from the annual food fair to assist poorer parishes, with great success.
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:confused:

Our parish publishes the numbers for the collection weekly, with an annual financial statement. Most of the donations are not cash - it’s checks or electronic deposit. It’s not like there’s unattended huge wads of cash lying around the church week to week. :confused:
 
Everyone knows that the Knights of Columbus guard the money and when the piles of cash get too big they call a special number and speak to someone in a dialect of liturgical Latin which only they know. Trappist monks come in the middle of the night and get the cash and bring it to the monastery where they store it for the Vatican.

Everyone knows this. :rolleyes:

-Tim-
 
TimothyH said:
Everyone knows that the Knights of Columbus guard the money and when the piles of cash get too big they call a special number and speak to someone in a dialect of liturgical Latin which only they know. Trappist monks come in the middle of the night and get the cash and bring it to the monastery where they store it for the -]Vatican/-] Opus Dei Knights of the Illuminait Templars

Everyone knows this. :rolleyes:

-Tim-
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Fixed it for 'ya Tim. Now, everyone knows. 😉
 
Here in the Archdiocese of Detroit 10% of the collection goes to the Archdiocese, the remainder stays in the parish.

The Exception is the Masses of Christmas, 100% stays in the parish.

For those parishes that are staffed via by Religious priests, a few percent goes to that Order to help fund the priests that they are providing
 
Our church is completely transparent when it comes to money. There is an annual disclosure that is printed in our church bulletin once a year. Additional disclosure occurs sporadically but usually also coincides with the Bishop’s Appeal.
 
As is ours, and as well the parish books are open at any time for anyone to inspect. I don’t know where the OP got those figures. I have never been in a parish that operated like that.
 
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