How much to give the local priest? (rural living)

Dick phelan · 21-10-2016 09:00PM

Never heard of people calling door to door for church donations very odd. I'd say either give nothing (what i'd do) or give 10 or 20, bit of a waste giving them less then 3 euro.

Red Kev · 21-10-2016 09:02PM

Your wife's from Mayo and you're a Dub?

Ask her who won the match 3 weeks ago, crack open a beer, put your feet up on the coffee table and let the Church go ta fcuk.

Turtyturd · 21-10-2016 09:03PM

I am from Dublin and remember the nosey old f*cks going around door to door for the 'church collection'.

BreadnBuddha · 21-10-2016 09:09PM

Dick phelan wrote: »

Never heard of people calling door to door for church donations very odd. I'd say either give nothing (what i'd do) or give 10 or 20, bit of a waste giving them less then 3 euro.

You must be one of those builders we all heard about, throwing their change in the bin after getting their breakfast rolls in Centra. :pac:

3 euro is better than a kick in the tits. It's also a lot more than some oul wan knocking on the door begging would get from most people under different auspices.

GLaDOS · 21-10-2016 09:12PM

I'd go and ask for my €2.65 back personally

LordSutch · 21-10-2016 09:16PM

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

So....... A knock at the door at 8pm this evening and it's the neighbour next door asking for a donation to the local priest/church.

I'm still trying to get my head around the 1st sentence

..people knocking on other peoples hall doors looking for contributions for the local Priest/RC Church!

Like don't they have collection plates in the RC Church during Sunday worship?

Sounds totally crazy to me, then again I kick with the other foot

21-10-2016 09:18PM

Dick phelan wrote: »

Never heard of people calling door to door for church donations very odd.

It's very common at home for the local Catholic Priest to deliver envelopes, door-to-door, for donations. There's one for every feast day and every Sunday. Our neighbour always leaves them in our postbox as a jape (we're not catholics, he is an atheist; the Priest respects our faith but not his lack of it!).

I think it's a common way of fundraising in all churches. Never heard of cash donations though.

Sounds a bit naive on behalf of the organisers to be handling donations like that.

Ted111 · 21-10-2016 09:19PM

GLaDOS wrote: »

I'd go and ask for my €2.65 back personally

Yes. Tell em the Deals Off.

You and your pocket change are WALKING.

One_Of_Shanks · 21-10-2016 09:33PM

deandean wrote: »

2.65 that is simply an insult. I'd have more change knocking around in my pubes.
Either tell her no get lost, or give her a 20 / 50.

Funnily enough that's the gist of what the missus said. (minus the pubes bit)

So it would be better to not give anything than to give 2.65?

Weird. I'd always rather have 2.65 than nothing, personally. It's genuinely all the coins I had and I didn't know she was expecting a tenner or more.
So the logic is you either give 10/20 quid or nothing? But whatever you do, don't give spare change?

Somebody mentioned the All Ireland.... Ha, yeah well lets just say I had to walk past a very large Mayo flag in my own garden for a fortnight but suddenly it vanished one saturday evening.
Don't worry, that win was worth a lot more than 2.65

theteal · 21-10-2016 09:39PM

Now that I see this thread I do remember one of the neighbours used to call to my folks weekly to collect the church envelope.

I assumed that lark is long finished, i can't imagine too many want to contribute to the fiddlers reparations

AgileMyth · 21-10-2016 09:41PM

diomed wrote: »

CRH is number 1 in the top 1000 companies with profit of €1 billion. That equates to about €250 for every man, woman, child. Your stat might be a bit off.
Ok, I know CRH has overseas businesses, but I doubt you have seen the accounts of the Church of Ireland.

And they're just as corrupt and twisted as the church.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 21-10-2016 09:46PM

AgileMyth wrote: »

And they're just as corrupt and twisted as the church.

Care to elaborate on CRH being corrupt?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-10-2016 09:50PM

Sounds a bit dodgy tbh, I've never heard of the Church collecting donations in this manner.

I'd pay a visit to the local Garda station if I were you.

demanufactured · 21-10-2016 09:55PM

"No thanks"

Close the door.

One_Of_Shanks · 21-10-2016 10:03PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Sounds a bit dodgy tbh, I've never heard of the Church collecting donations in this manner.

I'd pay a visit to the local Garda station if I were you.

She's my neighbour so I don't want to do anything like that. I'm sure she's genuine anyway. She said "here's the priest's letter if you'd like to see it".
I don't really care what the letter contained, I just wanted to go back to watching tv and at the same time throw in a few coins to keep everyone happy.

It didn't work out that way but that was the idea.

R P McMurphy · 21-10-2016 10:10PM

Never answer the door ... no good ever comes from it

corner of hells · 21-10-2016 10:14PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Sounds a bit dodgy tbh, I've never heard of the Church collecting donations in this manner.

I'd pay a visit to the local Garda station if I were you.

And get a few euro's off the Gardai ?
That's a good idea.

foggy_lad · 21-10-2016 10:20PM

"Oh we do all that kind of thing Privately by direct debit into the parish account". Door closes and nothing more will be heard of it. Wave and smile/chat with neighbour whenever you see them.

endacl · 21-10-2016 10:29PM

ger vallely wrote: »

Blast em with piss.

We're not allowed to do that any more.

Stealthfins · 21-10-2016 10:34PM

I remember giving a tenner before towards the church and a box of chocolates to give to a family who had a limited means around Christmas time 11 years ago to a parish priest in North Clare.

I was new to the neighborhood and he lived a few houses away.

Not even a thanks,I now I feel I should give him the bird sometimes.
I told him the story when he called over,he was taken aback when I said "you never bothered with a response to my Christmas cheer "

I ain't religious but at the time my mother suggested I give something,as she's old school.

Never again

realdanbreen · 21-10-2016 10:36PM

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

So....... A knock at the door at 8pm this evening and it's the neighbour next door asking for a donation to the local priest/church.

Brief background probably useful..... We've been here a year, get on fine with neighbours, we're not in the least bit religious.

So I gave her 2.65 which is all I had in coins.

The dog was barking and I didnt want the kids woken and I'm from Dublin originally so the whole thing of person gathering money for local church is foreign to me and I was caught on the hop a bit.
The lady was perfectly polite and said thanks but did seem taken aback by my scant donation.

So I close the door and then get the head eaten off me by my missus saying I should have given at "least a tenner ffs".

Shes from Mayo so shes saying that you should always give a tenner.

How the hell am I supposed to know what you should "always give"?

So should I call round tomorrow and part with a tenner? Or would that look even worse?

I think I should leave it but herself is saying give the tenner tomorrow.

Feckin stupid situation imo. It's a Friday night, kids in bed and here I am worrying about supposedly not giving enough money to a religion that I dont even believe in.

Crazy crap.

Any thoughts?

Any thoughts you ask. First thought, someone -either you or your neighbour-is telling porky's. No church that I know of sends people around door to door looking for money.

One_Of_Shanks · 21-10-2016 10:43PM

R P McMurphy wrote: »

Never answer the door ... no good ever comes from it

Haha, if I could relate to any post on here this is me.

Yeah 100% true.

No good ever comes from it.
People don't call to your door to offer you anything, they call to request something.

We used to live in an apartment in Dun laoghaire and it drove the missus nuts but as soon as I got home from work I would draw the sit-room curtains.
It basically meant that anyone who called couldn't see us and they could ring the bell all they liked.

But we're in a new neighbourhood now and she's all about fitting in so the new philosophy is get me to answer the door and short-change people asking for cash.

Ya know, it's a new one on me, how do you short-change someone asking for free money?
Apparently I did it this evening

demanufactured · 21-10-2016 10:49PM

Just tell them..."listen heyor....we don't give none of our money to those Peterfiles"...you'll never hear from them again.

Fr_Dougal · 21-10-2016 10:57PM

€7billion is a fair amount.

One_Of_Shanks · 21-10-2016 11:02PM

realdanbreen wrote: »

-either you or your neighbour-is telling porky's. No church that I know of sends people around door to door looking for money.

Yeah I'm telling porkies. I invented the person asking for money for the church in the hope that it would catch on and become an internet sensation and result in a movie or possibly even a sequel.

Catch yerself on, and no I'm sure she's not a con artist. Herself and her husband are nice people from the wee bit I know of them.

Did the church instruct them to go collecting? I don't know. She mentioned that she had a letter from the priest, probably detailing what the cause was for, but I chose not to read it.

Maybe there were "porkies"in the priest's letter if that helps?

I don't know, don't really care either. No offence but I'm not looking for a conspiracy theory here

RhubarbCrumble · 21-10-2016 11:09PM

Not quite a neighbour calling, but I had a letter and envelope in the door during the week from the 'parish council' to say that Father Priest was retiring, my contribution would be appreciated and they would be calling back during the week for the envelope.
I hope they have fun going through my recycling bin.

Carson10 · 21-10-2016 11:26PM

collection for the priest so he can update his car it sounds like. No such thing as a poor priest. My local rural priest, drives a 151 Jeep and goes on golfing trips.

demanufactured · 21-10-2016 11:29PM

You went to Las Vegas....whilst that poor child was supposed to be in lourdes!!

Moo Moo Land · 21-10-2016 11:29PM

diomed wrote: »

Do you not know the list of donations are read out at every mass on Sunday?

My dad told me they actually did that in 1950s. Madness. They shamed the poorest of the poor.

OP, do not fund them if you don't practice their religion.

I always give them the empty envelope back so there is no waste. They (it's always women) stopped to my door calling after a while.
I have zero time for the cult.

Anesthetize · 21-10-2016 11:32PM

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Not quite a neighbour calling, but I had a letter and envelope in the door during the week from the 'parish council' to say that Father Priest was retiring, my contribution would be appreciated and they would be calling back during the week for the envelope.
I hope they have fun going through my recycling bin.

Just give them back the envelope containing nothing but a message saying "enjoy your retirement."

How much to give the local priest? (rural living)

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