{"id":3554,"date":"2009-10-24T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T11:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/why-give-to-your-parish.html"},"modified":"2009-10-24T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T11:09:56","slug":"why-give-to-your-parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/why-give-to-your-parish.html","title":{"rendered":"Why give to your parish?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s one answer, from my parish in Queens<\/a>. It’s part of our annual stewardship drive, and this video is being shown Sunday at all the masses. Kudos to one of our trustees, Roger Aguinaldo<\/a>, who shot and produced it. (Shameless plug: look closely and you’ll see Your Humble Blogger once or twice…)<\/p>\n

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