Seriously, IMHO stewardship is something Cahotics do ina very confusing and frustrtaing way. I have NO PROBLEM with "Stewardship Sundays" and the like. What I hate is being nickeled and dimed to death. We got ths Domincan Sisters and their new Convent, we have our linked Parish in Haiti, we have the Dominican "poor boys" (novices) on their annual begging tour, we have peter's pence, the Diocesan Appeal, the diocesan Youth appeal the Diocesan Catastrophe Appeal, the Church in Isreal, the Church in Appalachia, I could go NUTS here! I feel like walking into the parish office with my tithe in dollar bills, dumping them all on Father Brian's desk (and I really like and admire this guy) and saying "Here! YOU figure it out."
Our parish has one color envelope for the weekly pledge, and then various color envelopes for the other appeals. They do send us a quarterly statement with everything broken down. It IS confusing, so I just write one check for our weekly pledge and then use my discretion for the others.
But it's sort of like having your sleeve tugged from ALL directions. I guess I'm used to it since I work in downtown Atlanta --