Xavier awarded $80K grant from Black and Indian Mission Board

Xavier University of Louisiana was recently awarded an $80,000 grant bad credit personal loans near me from the Black and Indian Mission Board in support of its educational ministries.

The Xavier grant was among those approved this year by a commission of three bishops which administers funds derived from the Catholic Church’s annual National Black and Indian Mission Collection.

“We are extremely grateful to the Black and Indian Mission Board of Directors for their very generous and payday loans racine timely support of our Catholic mission,” Xavier President Dr. Norman C. Francis said, “as well as to all of the people who contributed to the annual Black and Indian Mission Collection in their respective parishes across the nation and who ultimately make such funding possible.”

Dr. Francis said that Xavier, the nation’s only Black Catholic university and one of the nation’s top producers of Black doctors and cobol pay day loans pharmacists, will use the monies to sponsor culturally appropriate events and formation activities which encourage Christian values through its robust Campus Ministry program.

The Rev. W. Carroll Paysse, executive director of the Black and Indian Mission Office, said that the Black and Indian Mission Collection, which was first mandated by U.S. Bishops in 1884, exists today “to help communities build the Church and preach the Gospel bad credit loans low income of Jesus Christ among the African-American, Native American, and Alaska Native people of God.”

He said that every year it is the generosity of Catholic faithful which enables the Black and Indian Mission Office to support critical priorities for the Catholic Church to include enlivening parish life & Catechesis, helping educators to reach the young, encouraging vocations, and empowering evangelizers.

“The Black and payday loans racine wisconsin Indian Mission Office continues to support evangelization at Xavier through education and religious formation because we believe in the extraordinary Catholic education offered to all who attend the University,” Paysse said. “Also, we are committed to the mission and vision of St. Katharine Drexel in raising up well-educated, informative, and holy individuals among our Black sisters and brothers for the Church and society.”

The official date firstmerit personal loan rates for the next Black and Indian Mission Collection for Catholic parishes across the United States is February 22, 2015, the first Sunday of the Lenten season. However Bishops are allowed to take the collection at their discretion in their particular diocese. Contributions can also be made directly at www.blackandindianmission.org.

This article originally published in the February 9, 2015 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.