“So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.”
Romans 12:5
Each year, we are invited to participate in our Annual Catholic Appeal, an opportunity for all of us to support essential ministries and services that benefit many in our Local Church. The theme of this year’s campaign is “In Mission, We Are One.”
Our Annual Catholic Appeal enables us to fund Pastoral Center ministries and programs that help our community members live their faith. These ministries and programs are the hands and feet of Christ. Your donations contribute to the support of our Catholic schools and programs to support faith formation at all ages, to strengthen families, to promote a culture of life, to care for creation, to engage youth and young adults, to sustain our retired clergy and those preparing for the priesthood, and to extend a helping hand to the marginalized.
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Thank You for Your Support!
| If you have already supported us, we sincerely thank you for your wonderful and generous gift toward the Annual Catholic Appeal. A gift to the Appeal is always a gift to the parish. Because of your joyful generosity, our parish community remains vibrantly united with the entire Church and is able to be more Alive in Christ!
Thank you so much! Our hearts overflow with gratitude and thankfulness for the prompt and gracious response from so many of our faith-filled families. May God bless you abundantly always!
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The Annual Catholic Appeal provides funding for Evangelization and Catechetical Ministries, Youth and Young Adults, Family Life, and Spirituality, Liturgy, Life, Peace and Justice Ministries, and the Diocesan Institute. These diocesan ministries coordinate training for Directors of Catechetical Ministries, Young Adult, Youth, and Prison Ministry Coordinators, catechists, and religious education teachers as well as theological formation for adults.
Parish-based and diocesan schools are assisted in their staff development and enrollment initiatives and mission advancement efforts as they strive to provide affordable and accessible education to every child and family who desires it, regardless of background, neighborhood, family income or culture.
Catholic Charities meets the emergency needs of our region’s most vulnerable. Its shelters offer a warm bed to homeless women and men and caring support to get them back on their feet. Its staff serves meals to needy seniors and distributes food to the hungry, whose ranks have spiked in the last year. The agency works with parishes to assist immigrant families struggling to survive amid unprecedented changes in federal policies.
Clergy Formation and Support
The Annual Catholic Appeal also supports Priestly Formation, the pastoral care of active and retired priests and the preparation and ongoing formation of Permanent Deacons.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Pope Leo XIV invites all Catholics “to renew our active cooperation in the mission
of the Church.” In the Diocese of San Diego, this mission to spread the Gospel
and serve others drives everything we do.
Our Annual Catholic Appeal supports our catechetical formation, clergy support,
Catholic Schools Office and Catholic Charities. Your support for the ACA makes
this work possible in our pastoral center offices, to assist parishes and schools.
In 2026, more than 1,630 adults and children joined the Church in our diocese,
exceeding pre-pandemic levels. The ACA funds this catechetical formation in
our parishes. The ACA, as well, helps to sustain our Catholic schools, which are
preparing the next generation of leaders, not only in our Church but in society.
The formation of seminarians to become new priests is funded by the ACA,
which includes a full year of pastoral ministry in our parishes, preparing them
for the joys and challenges of serving in our diocese. The ACA also supports our
retired priests after their lifetime of love and service.
Catholic Charities assists and accompanies the poor and the suffering across
our region, upholding the Church’s mission to serve “the least of these brothers
and sisters.” The Church’s teaching calls us to uphold the sacredness of human
life from the moment of conception to natural death. We are to protect the
most vulnerable, especially unborn children, the elderly, and the infirm. This also
includes caring for immigrants and refugees as part of the same teaching. Pope
Leo affirmed this mission in his first exhortation, “Dilexi Te,” saying, “ The Church
has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord.”
I prayerfully invite you to contribute to this year’s Annual Catholic Appeal, and by
so doing, affirming that “In Mission, We Are One.”
United in Christ,
Bishop Michael Pham
