You choose, we carry it out

Choose what your gift is for

Nothing here is for sale. Choose the work you want to support and the amount you want to give — the smallest gift is 5. You can change the amount at any time.

The fund’s work — where our own spending is capped by law

Gifts that pay for seminary studies and meals. Administration capped at 20% of yearly income.

A child

School meals for a child, a whole school year

One child eats at school for a whole school year. About $25 of this is the published food cost of those meals (Mary’s Meals, 13 cents a meal); the rest pays the people who make it happen — staff, accounting, bank transfers and reporting. Ukrainian law caps our administration at 20% of income, so the fund can never take more at the programme’s expense.

A seminarian

One month of study and preparation for a seminarian

Forming one priest in Africa costs about $1,000–1,900 a year — roughly $85–160 a month, across eight years — at local prices. Add what it costs the fund to collect and transfer that money, and one month comes to about $105–200. Housing, food, books and tuition, plus the people and banking that carry it.

Where it is needed most

Let the fund decide

We direct it to whichever of these needs it most at that moment, and report where it went.

Prayer and Mass — we take nothing

An offering, not a price. Every cent reaches the priest who celebrates.

A small act of faith

A candle before God

A candle lit for a person you carry in your heart. It is the smallest thing you can do here, and it keeps the work of the fund going.

One Mass

One Mass, offered for your intention

One Mass applied to one person or one need. Under Canon 947 the offering belongs entirely to the priest who celebrates it.

Three Masses

A triduum — three Masses on three days

Three consecutive Masses, a short series often asked for straight after a death.

Nine Masses

A novena — nine Masses over nine days

Nine consecutive Masses, the pattern that goes back to the apostles’ nine days of prayer between the Ascension and Pentecost.

Thirty Masses

A Gregorian series — thirty Masses for one person

Thirty consecutive Masses, traditionally offered for one person who has died. The oldest and fullest way the Church prays for the dead.

Your gift USD 5

Offering for a Mass goes in full to the priest who celebrates it and never becomes income of the fund (Canon 947). Administrative costs are capped at 20% of income by Ukrainian law No. 5073-VI, Art. 16(3).

Where your gift goes

Nothing here is sold. Gifts in the first group are offerings: a candle, a Mass, nine or thirty Masses. Every cent of those goes to the priest or the church who carries them out — we take no share, and they never become income of the fund (Canon 947). Gifts in the second group fund work: school meals for children in Africa through the Church, and seminary studies for future priests. On that money our administrative costs are capped at 20% of yearly income by Ukrainian law No. 5073-VI, Art. 16(3); the fund’s income and spending structure is not confidential under Art. 17(3) of the same law.

What an offering for a Mass is — and what it is not

An offering for a Mass is not a price and not a donation to the fund. It is a gift to the priest who offers the Sacrifice for the intention you ask for. This is not our policy; it is the law of the Church.

Canon 945 §1 — a priest who celebrates Mass may accept an offering to apply the Mass to a particular intention. Canon 947 — the offering is kept entirely for the celebrant. Warmth of Mercy never takes a share of it and never earns from a Mass.

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