2021 Bishop's Annual Appeal

The BAA is essential to help us meet the challenge of Living the Joy of the Gospel. The BAA 2019 raised over $8 million for seminarian education, Catholic schools tuition assistance, parish needs, diocesan funded offices, and various ministries and services throughout our twenty-three counties.

Five things your gift will support: 

1. Education programs, student and school assistance,
2. Priest, Deacon and Seminarian Education,
3. Parish Life Enhancements,
4. Spiritual and Pastoral Programs,
5. Social Concerns.

Sowing good seeds in many different ways, and seeking to bring the love of Jesus Christ into our parishes, our diocese, and world is a great work and continues to be the true mission of the BAA. We do not always see the lives we touch or the hope emerging from within someone, yet we have faith and believe in the loving hands of Jesus working in their lives and our own, and in this, we find great joy. 

Thank you for your faithful stewardship to the BAA and our parish community.  Please know that I am praying for you. I ask for prayers for me and my brother priests and deacons.  I ask that together we pray for our diocesan and parish staff, ministries and programs.  Together, we are Living the Joy of the Gospel and renewing the earth. 

Yours in Christ,
Most Reverend Bishop Robert J. Brennan
Bishop of Columbus