Dear Pastors, Administrators and Parish staff,
Now that we are beginning to resume public liturgies with limited seating and have all gotten past PPP loan applications and related issues, setting up streaming Masses, improving email with parishioners, continuing to promote Partners in Charity, and so many other issues, we want to step back and evaluate impact on your parish to project longer term issues.
Please take just two minutes to respond to these simple questions below. This will help us to evaluate ways we can assist in the future. Thank you.
1. What has been the AVERAGE impact on your Offertory since Easter weekend?
down 10% or less
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down 10 - 25%
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down 25 - 40%
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Down consistently more than 40%
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2. Do you use social media at least once a week with parishioners?
We email the bulletins, reflections, prayers, homilies and other pastoral communications and/or direct them to online Masses
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We are not yet using email or social media
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3. How is online giving being used in your parish?
a growing number of parishioners are using it
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the same parishioners are using it
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we do not currently offer it
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4. Have you communicated the need to continue Offertory with your parishioners either with the draft letter supplied in April or other resources?
We have emailed a letter from the pastor to everyone and noted our continuing costs compared to our income
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We have not sent a notice because we received a PPP loan to hold us over
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We have not sent a letter and not received a PPP loan
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5. Have you experienced any reduction in expenses while public liturgies were suspended? (lower utilities, maintenance, fewer liturgical musicians paid per Mass, etc.)
10% lower
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10 - 20% lower
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More than 20% lower
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No change since the loan covered our employees
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No change but we did not get a loan
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6. Have you begun Public Masses or plan to do so?
We began INDOOR MASSES on the weekend of May 24
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We began OUTDOOR MASSES on the weekend of May 24
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We are planning to begin on Pentecost
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We have not announced when public Masses will resume
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7. IF you held INDOOR public Masses on May 23/24, please choose which best describes your experience
We had seating available at all Masses (on average)
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We were at or near capacity of available seating but did not turn anyone away
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We used reservations to control capacity
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We used an overflow space for simultaneous attendance (indoor or outside)
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People left who could not get in safely and within the state limit
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