Financial Support | Theology of Relationship | Current Needs
The ONE BODY ONE SPIRIT project is entirely funded by donors to AD SODALITATEM. Our acceptance of donations is ongoing and can be given for specific purposes according to your wishes.
Donations to Ad Sodalitatem, NFP should be sent to 203 Rosemary Dr., Colllinsville, IL 62234. Ad Sodalitatem is a not-for-profit corporation with 501(c)3 status, so your gift is tax-deductible. Thank you for your generosity.
Your donation can be given to the travel expenses and support for one of the three phases of the pilgrimage or for AD SODALITATEM's miscellaneous expenses.
Phase One: $9,700 needed for plane fare, visas, and housing. Includes travel for the pilgrimage through the United States starting January 1, through Asia, and to Rome Italy for the celebration of Easter in St. Peters Basilica on April 8, 2007..
Phase Two: $9,700 needed for plane fare, visas, and housing. Includes travel to holy sites throughout Europe including, Assisi, Fatima, Santiago, Loyola, Lourdes, and Taize. The churches of St. Paul in Greece, and Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost. Also includes travel for 2 months through Africa, ending August 14, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Phase Three: $9,700 needed for plane fare, visas and housing. Includes travel through South America including the holy feasts of Senor de los Milagros in Peru and La Virgen de Guadalupe in Mexico, returning to the United States for Christmas, 2007.
Gift Giving Exchange: As part of AD SODALITATEMs gift giving, young people from around the country have been sending gifts to AD SODALITATEM to be given to other children visited during the ONE BODY ONE SPIRIT pilgrimage. Your donation can be used specifically to help send these items overseas to parishes visited.
Support for the Poor: In parishes that have need to help the poor. Your donation can be specifically slated to be given to the poor in parishes visited as their need is demonstrated.
A major influence to AD SODALITATEM is the philosophical and theological
understanding of gift and response. The act of giving is a simple act,
but is experienced most completely when the giver has the opportunity
to receive a response.
Another approach looks like this. Consider what it is like to learn about someone.
You can learn their age, the color of their skin, their height, and weight,
but not really know them. Having a conversation helps, but we interact
with so many people in a day who we talk to but don’t form lasting
relationships. Relationship is more than just being aware that someone
else exists. Relationship is knowing someone in the context of gift and
response.
It is for these reasons that AD SODALITATEM seeks to give a financial
gift to the poor of parishes visited in the One
Body One Spirit Project. AD SODALITATEM will continue to raise money for these parishes in the years following the initial pilgrimage of David Heimann.
Understanding the role a gift plays in forming a relationship are reflected in the very celebration of the Eucharist
in the Catholic Church. God gave himself as gift to us in the person of
Jesus Christ. This giving of self is reflected in the Eucharistic celebrations
in which the people of God give simple gifts of praise and thanksgiving,
but also bread and wine, which are changed in the Body of Christ and make
us all One Body, One Spirit in Christ.
Funds donated to AD SODALITATEM are for the promotion of solidarity. AD SODALITATEM is not a development or relief organization.
As such, it defers to internationally organized relief organizations to
decide the manner in which the Church should respond to poverty. AD SODALITATEM prefers Catholic Relief Services as the charity
of choice in this regard. AD SODALITATEM discourages the use of our network
for direct solicitations of any sort. Requests made on behalf of the poor
should be made through ligitmate channels.
Any user violating this guideline will be disconnected from the network.
In addition to the financial goals of AD SODALITATEM, there are numerous non-financial contributions that can be made. Please look over our needs and consider assisting us by contacting us.
- Translators - we are in need of persons who can translate into multiple languages, especially materials which will be sent to bishops and church superiors in the coming months. Language skills in Spanish, Italian, French, and German are especially needed, but also languages of Asia and Africa.
- Translators are also needed to develop what will be a multilingual platform for our website allowing viewers from various language groups to navigate our website.
- Translators are also needed to help translate correspondence between young people in schools across the globe. These correspondence will help young people learn more about each other and grow in solidarity.
- Publicity – Persons who are involved in media in the Christian media and public media who are willing to cover a part of our story are encouraged to contact us immediately. We want to get the word out!
- Promoters – We need people who will volunteer to call parishes, visit schools, and spread the word of this amazing project. The more people who know, the farther our reach.
- Educators – We are hoping to develop a team of educators who will assist in the development of lesson plans and online worksheets. Our pilgrims will have most of the information and can do a great deal of work, but the more volunteers we have in the United States organizing and formatting the information the pilgrims send back will allow the pilgrims to spend more time gathering information and meeting with people to promote solidarity!
- Hosts in visited countries – Do you know someone who would be willing to host a pilgrim for a night or two? Let us know! Let them know!
- Primary Contact in visited countries – the role of a primary contact is very specific and greatly needed for each visit. Click here for the list describing the expectations we hope to secure in a primary contact.
- Prayer. This is God’s work and it can’t be completed without our constant attentiveness to the will of God. There is no better support for this attentiveness than to join in a community of persons praying to God for God’s continued blessedness on our mission and work.
Donations to Ad Sodalitatem, NFP should be sent to 203 Rosemary Dr., Colllinsville, IL 62234. Ad Sodalitatem is a not-for-profit corporation with 501(c)3 status, so your gift is tax-deductible. Thank you for your generosity.