2020 Christmas Ornaments
Each Christmas season, St. Thomas the Apostle Parish offers its parishioners the opportunity to share generously with the needy families of our “adopted” Tucson parishes.
In lieu of our Giving Trees traditionally located in the back of the church, parishioners will instead discover roughly half of our ornaments alternately displayed providing information regarding the needs of the person in need of help.
Parishioners are invited to select an ornament, purchase a Christmas gift according to the information provided and return it WRAPPED — with the ornament attached — to the Narthex by Monday, December 14 at 12:00 Noon.
New Electronic Option
If you have made and continue to make the decision not to attend Mass in the church amidst ever-changing Diocesan COVID-19 guidance and protocols yet still wish to participate in the annual Christmas Giving “Tree” ornament effort, you may do so electronically this year! HALF of our ornaments are available this way in 2020!
How? Via this Flocknote! The steps are really simple and the system resembles a retail gift registry.
1. Click the red Sign Up button below. It will open up to an electronic list of 305 available gifts to consider.
2. For each gift you intend to purchase, click on the respective item's blue Sign Up button. You may select as many as you wish. (Clicking an individual item's Sign Up button is the equivalent of physically removing an ornament(s) from the Narthex Christmas trees in prior years). Once you make your selection(s), the item(s) will become technologically unavailable for duplicate purchase.
3. You will receive within the hour via eMail a Flocknote confirmation of your selection(s). We ask that you PRINT each item confirmation and save it. Then purchase your gifts however you choose. After you have wrapped your item(s), attach the appropriate confirmation to the respective gift(s). (This is equivalent of – in past years - attaching the actual ornament when you return it to church.)
4. Return the WRAPPED gift(s) to the Narthex not later than Monday, December 14 at Noon*.
*Gifts will remain available to select (either in person or electronically)
until Sunday, December 13 at Noon.