Host a Card Shower for your Parish Priest!

Our parish priests put forth so much effort for us! They have a life of sacrifice, stress, and heartache with very little appreciation from we parishioners. We need to show these devout men that we are thankful for their sacrifice and living witness.

How? Host a Card Shower!

For those who don’t know what a card shower is… It’s when a large group of people join together to send cards to someone. Each individual should take a few minutes to send a store-bought card or a hand-made card to your parish rectory. Normally, the time frame for this would be over the course of a week or month.

As the host, you simply need to get the word out!!

I tried to get a Card Shower started for our parish priest. Of course, I had to recruit a few helpers. First I typed up, printed off, and cut out some slips of paper to distribute to parishioners.

They looked like this:

Then I gave a stack of them to a few people to pass out secretly after Masses with the hope that the papers would make it into the hands of parishioners who would send a card. Distributing them can be a challenge if you are trying to surprise your priest, but that’s part of the reason I kept the fliers small!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ This is a perfect activity to do during February for St. Valentine’s day!!! After all, they don’t get a card from a wife! ~OR~ How about in June for Father’s Day!! We are all their children! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

My kids each made a card for our priest.A few years ago I was lucky enough to acquire some wallpaper samples. They worked well for this.They also used construction paper.Here are a few pictures: