Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish
819 E. Cathedral Road
Philadelphia, Pa. 19128
215-483-1000

May, 2025

Greetings to our IHM Parish Community:
I am pleased to announce that our parish has partnered with Catholic Parish Initiative in the 2025
Multi-Parish Raffle. This is a nationally recognized 501(c) (3) non-profit organization. Since 2014 this raffle has
helped parishes raise much needed funds while promoting generosity and fellowship within their
communities. Our goal is to have a fun fundraiser that will enable us to raise much needed operating revenue
for our parish during the fiscal year 2025-2026. We have a beautiful parish campus with an outstanding parish
grade school. We need to be able to keep up with rising operational costs and ongoing maintenance and
capital improvements.
This year’s raffle features 23 prizes totaling $68,000 with ticket sales beginning in late April and the
drawing scheduled for July 19 at 8 PM.
Enclosed with this letter you will find five raffle tickets at $25 each. We kindly ask you to consider
purchasing the tickets for yourself or selling them to family, friends or neighbors. The purchaser keeps the
right side of the ticket while the left side, properly filled out, along with payment, should be returned in the
enclosed envelope to the rectory and put in the office mail slot or via the weekly collection at Mass for your
convenience. Please seal the envelope. Please return any unsold tickets in the return envelope. All ticket
purchases and unused tickets should be returned to the rectory by July 10, 2025. If you would like additionaltickets which would be great, you can contact Mrs. Denise Schmidt the parish secretary at the rectory. Please make all checks payable to IHM Parish. One-half of all the revenue from the tickets is kept right here at IHM.

The raffle drawing will take place on Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 8 pm EDT in Newington CT and can be
viewed llve at http://www.parishraffle.com. There are a total of 23 American Express Gift Card prizes that will be awarded for a total of $68, 000.
1st Prize: $30,000, 2nd Prize $10,000, 3rd Prize $8.000, 4th Prize through 23rd Prize $1,000 each

This year the raffle sponsor has introduced a grant program to support parishes without a winner. If
our parish does not have a winner in the initial raffle, the allocated funds will be sent to us. We will then
redistribute those funds to at least one parishioner, ensuring our parish has at least one “winner”.

I hope you will be able to join us in this inaugural IHM Spring Raffle. Blessings…

Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Edward J. Casey
Pastor