Auntie Charo's Soapbox

Had company for dinner last night so didn't catch the news.....but read today on KUAM's webpage that the Seminarians held a 'gala' fundraiser at the Hyatt Hotel..........and that, according to Marrissa Borja, the Seminary relies totally on providence for its existence......alas, so do the birds, but you don't see them splitting their funds with hotels! I'd bet my entire $150.00 that if I held a fund raiser at Mrs. Eugenia Leon Guerrero's home that she'd let me keep the entire amount and not have to split same with the hotel....which of course....means that the seminary wouldn't have to have to have frequent fund-raisers(they've had three this year?) asking the same poor-rich friends to attend the fund-raisers each time.......
I'm thinking that Catholics with 'deep pockets' would love to have dinners in their homes with their families with seminarians and priests and give large donations for said dinners for home blessings. I do recall that a few years ago, the Archbishop said masses in the home of friends and he received hefty 'donations' for same. I'm thinking that there are 'many' deep-pocketed Catholics which would love to hold a few dinners in honor of these seminarians over the next months which wouldn't cost the seminary half of the profit with the hotel....then there's the car washes, the lawn mowing and the like....bet they'd get a donation just for the asking....
Pray tell, whatever happened to those days when weary-eyed women walked the villages asking for money to send seminarians off-island...was it, Menlo Park? Catholic Charities Appeal I think it was.....is there such an appeal around these days? Or is it strictly 'providence' a la gala?