Good Friday Holy Land Annual Appeal

Join our brothers and sisters throughout the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and worldwide on Friday, April 18, 2025, by supporting the Good Friday Holy Land Annual Appeal. Please offer your prayerful, vocal and financial support.

Every year on Good Friday, a collection is taken up in Catholic Churches to support the work of the Franciscans working in the Holy Land. Christians there rely heavily on the help that comes to them from this worldwide collection.

The Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America is part of a worldwide network of Commissariats of the Holy Land, which function as bridges between the Holy Land and Christians worldwide. The Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C., coordinates this vital support for the Franciscans working in the Holy Land.

The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land have the unique responsibility to care for the Holy Places and the "Living Stones," the Christians living there. We must support Christians living in the Holy Land to maintain a Christian presence in the very land made holy by the life, death and Resurrection of Jesus.

Pope Francis has asked our parish to support the Pontifical Good Friday Collection. Your support helps the Church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines. The pandemic hit particularly hard the Christians in the Holy Land. Most of them depend on pilgrimages to work.

In these times of crisis, the Pontifical Good Friday Collection is also necessary to meet the basic needs of the People of God still living in this Land where the Church was born. When you contribute to the Pontifical Good Friday Collection, you become an instrument of peace and join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land. For more information about Christians in the Holy Land, visit www.myfranciscan.org/good-friday.

To make an online gift, use one of the links at the top of the page. An envelope for the Good Friday Holy Land is included in the monthly envelope packet. Please make sure your check is made payable to the parish church, clearly marking in the memo Holy Land 4024.400.