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To: Tax-chick
...; we probably get 30 pieces of mail a year from the Diocese. Maybe I could offer a contribution for the postage bill!

LOL. You wouldn't want to enable them, would you? Don't encourage them. Slip a little brochure on the paperless office into your envelope along with your offering. But don't let them have your email address.

From 1994-1997 (or so) I did a little "young adult" stuff in my parish, though I myself was already a senile adult. I STILL get young adult emails from the diocese.

28 posted on 11/20/2008 6:34:42 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Mad Dawg

I’ve been tempted to write to the Bishop and ask him to stop sending us all the reminders and thanks and stuff, but I’m afraid he’d feel obligated to write back and thank me for my thoughtful suggestion. I get the impression his mother was very strict about correspondence!

I’ve had to remind the Diocese of Tulsa that we moved several times since 2003, most recently earlier this year. “Dear Bishop Slattery, Thank you for thinking of us, but ...”


29 posted on 11/20/2008 6:40:19 AM PST by Tax-chick ("I thank Thee, dear Jesus, that Thy will and not mine has been done." ~St. Frances Cabrini)
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