Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and I just want to take a moment to thank you so much for listening to these homilies and for being part of this community. It's the online community, the virtual front view, we call it, but it's also a part of our Bulldog Catholic, our University of Minnesota-Dilth-Newth-Cenner community. You might know that as part of the Duluth-Newman Center, we are in the Seeds of Faith campaign. The Seeds of Faith campaign is trying to raise money to build a church and Newman Center as well as to support that and fund

the ongoing upkeep of that church and Newman Center for years to come. We've been traveling all

over the country for a couple of years now. And our students, current students, have sacrificed

my presence on campus in an unfortunate way, but in such a generous way.

They have been thoughtful of future generations of students.

They have sacrificed my being here so that students who maybe aren't even born yet will one day be able to worship in a real church and worship

in a real, and get together in a real student center. But we still have students here.

Once a year on the Thursday before Thanksgiving, we ask those who are friends and those who

are family of Boldie Catholic of the Duluth Newman Center to consider supporting our

day-to-day ministry. This one day is the one time that we ask our friends, our benefactors,

to bless our current students. This is the one day that we ask for support for the ongoing

ministry, the day-to-day ministry, to pay the bills, to keep the lights on, to keep the heat on as it gets colder and colder here in northern Minnesota, as well as to employ a growing staff to serve our growing students.

If you'd like to join us this Thursday at the Essential Presents Channel, we have a live stream starting at 7 p.m. Central Time, where we'll do some Q&A, we'll have some interaction with myself, as well as some current students and some current staff, as well as just have an opportunity to get together and to pray. If at any point, before that date, during that day or after the day, you'd like to consider financially supporting us. Please know that you can. You go to bold.catholic.org and just hit donate.

Or you can go to givemn.org, that's give, give minnesota.org, and just search for

Newman or Duluth, and you'll see us right there on the web page and just donate that way.

If you're unable or unwilling to support us financially, I could ask for your prayers.

We have so many students in OCIA right now.

We have so many students coming to Bible studies.

The place is packed, and there is such a great need that we just are in need for that financial support.

And we know that God can take care of his church.

We know that God wants these miracles to happen.

And so, please consider prayerfully supporting us as well.

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