WHAT?! NO ALTAR GUILD BAKE SALE THIS YEAR?
After more than 50 years of holding our annual 4th of July weekend bake sale, the Sacred Heart Altar Guild has been faced with an imposing obstacle COVID-19. With regard to everyone’s safety and social distancing guidelines, this year the members are hosting a “Bake-Less Bake Sale.”
As far back as 1881, the Sacred Heart Ladies Altar Society (as it was known then) has been donating money to our pastors in order to buy needed items for the church. The first donation was for $34.90 (out of their total annual collection of $41.80) toward the purchase of four statues for the altar, which cost $100.
This is our primary annual fundraiser and since that first donation, we have purchased chalices, linens, vestments and other items. We also pay for the weekly maintenance of our altar linens and cloths, and provide other services that keep our altar as a beautiful and sacred space of worship.
The women of our parish will be donating the amount of money they typically spend to prepare and bake those delicious desserts we have all come to appreciate, as well as the amounts they spend to purchase other treats! We hope you will join us, as you have done so generously throughout our history, by donating whatever amount of money you can. Just mark Altar Guild or Bake-Less Sale on your check or envelope
While we cannot send you home with plates full of treats, we will have other items for sale that might interest you as Christmas or hostess gifts, or to keep for yourself! Thank you for your ongoing support of our Altar Guild Mission! We pray that God will bless your family and keep you all safe and healthy during these uncertain and unprecedented times!