Opportunity to Support Catholic Education in September

You can help support Catholic schools and parish religious education by giving to the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Campaign through the second collections taken up at your local parish during the month of September.
The Elizabeth Ann Seton Collection is taken yearly to help provide additional funding of Catholic education in schools and parishes throughout the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee. In 2016, the generosity of parishioners provided over $42,000 that benefited 22 schools and parish religious programs. Among the items funded have been new curriculum, improved technology, and annual retreats.
There are eleven Catholic schools operating in the diocese, with student enrollment increasing in the 2015-2016 school year. Pensacola High School and St. John Paul II High School in Tallahassee were ranked in the top 110 private schools in the state of Florida last year. The schools in the diocese strive to offer an “authentically Catholic” education through the mission of collaborating with parents in the Christian formation of students.
This collection is named after St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the American patron saint of Catholic schools. Canonized in 1975 by Pope Paul VI, St. Elizabeth believed that the education of children in the faith was vital. She started multiple Catholic schools in New England, including the first free parochial school for girls in the United States in 1809.
“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God;” she said. “Secondly, to do it in the manner He wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is His will.”