Highest Number of Seminarians Receive Support
by Lynn Zelek, Fishermen's Fund coordinator
MOSAIC, Winter 2010

The Fishermen's Fund is a lay driven initiative dedicated to ensuring that no vocation to the Roman Catholic priesthood, diaconate or lay ministry is hindered due to financial need. The Fund is enjoying its highest numbers of seminarian recipients this year since its inception, with eighteen receiving tuition support, along with nineteen lay students.

This fact, coupled with Sacred Heart enjoying its highest enrollment of seminarians in thirty-eight years (one hundred for the academic year) is encouraging and exciting for the faithful in the Archdiocese of Detroit, where our need for religious leaders is critical. The reality is that currently we have a severe shortage of priests and a terrific need of properly educated deacons and lay ministers to assist them in our parishes. As encouraging as it is to have the enrollment numbers we have this year, it is tempered by the equally critical need for funding to continue providing help to these future Church leaders.

We will continue to deliver The Fishermen's Fund message to every Catholic in the archdiocese and offer our prayers of gratitude to all who have supported The Fishermen's Fund in its infancy. We ask that, whether you have given before or not, and whether you are able to share much or little, you climb on board with us to help our future fishermen who are so deserving of our support.

We consider it a privilege to encourage you to join in remembering The Fishermen's Fund, our seminarians, deacons and lay students with your generosity and your prayers. To contribute to the Fund, call 313-883-8779 or email fishermensfund@shms.edu.