Thanks to the generosity of the University of Notre Dame, none of us have to pay tuition. Some of us even receive financial support in the shape of student stipends. As religious with a vow of poverty, we pool and share those resources among between us. That is enough to cover rent, utilities, and part of our health insurance. How do we cover the rest of our expenses (groceries, gas, car insurance, etc.)? Sometimes, our priestly ministry comes with some remuneration (e.g. mass stipends), but that is not enough.

Our program of studies is incredibly intense. Sometimes up to a thousand pages to read in a week, many papers to write, seminars to attend, etc. When all that is done, we have very little time left to do anything else.

In that time, we could pick up a few small jobs to make some extra money and pay for our bills, but that would leave no time at all for priestly ministry.

If you help us make ends meet, we can dedicate that time to do what we most love doing: bringing people to Christ and bringing Christ to people. In other words, your donation enables us to serve as priests, in spiritual directions, confessions, preaching retreats, etc.

This will hopefully benefit many people. But it will also help us preserve sanity... So thanks for that too!

And last, but certainly not least, we need your prayers. We need them as students when we face tiredness and discouragement, we need them as religious consecrated to Christ when we get too much used to the gift of our calling, we need them as priests when the burden of our ministry weighs us down. Only with many prayers can we hope to persevere and be fruitful in our calling!