MBMG-CTK Shows Off Religious Gift Suggestions in Exchange for Donations

Betsy Tenchavez, current head of the Mother Butler Mission Guilds (MBMG), CTK Chapter, presented a wonderful array of potential gift suggestions at the January PPC meeting.

MBMG carries a wide line of clergy and church related paraphernalia whi ch donor s and benefactors could ‘buy’. MBMG would then donate the said mass kit to a poor church or mission, usually in the rural areas. At the same time, the donor is presented with a beautifully-crafted and ribboned gift box which indicates that a gift, say, a mass kit, has been donated to a specific church or mission in the gift recipient’s name. The gift box would indicate who gave the donation, the name and photo of the item bought in his name, and the identity of the priest or church to whom it was given by MBMG.

A sick call kit, which consists of a cross, pyx, corporal, stole, oil stock, and bottle for holy water only costs the donor P1,500. A chalice to hold the wine or ciboreum to hold the consecrated hosts costs P2,500. A mass kit, consisting of a small chalice, paten, host box, bottles for water and wine, two candle holders, standing cross, tray, bell, vestments, and linen costs P3,500. P4,500 gets the donor a censer and boat to carry incense for burning.

Costlier, at P9,500, the donor can donate a monstrance, for exposing the Blessed Sacrament, to a needy or start-up church. And for P17,000, a generous donor can endow a tabernacle, the repository of the ciboria.