Peter's Pence Collection

* Peter’s Pence Collection:

There will be second collection for Peter’s Pence on 27-03-11. (Third Sunday of Lent).



Peter's Pence (from Wikipedia):

Peter's Pence is payment made more or less voluntarily to Rome. It began under the Saxons in England and is seen in other countries. Though formally discontinued in England at the Reformation, a post-Reformation payment of uncertain characteristics is seen in some English manors into the 19th century. In 1871 Pope Pius IX formalized the practice of lay members of the Roman Catholic Church - and "other persons of good will" - to provide financial support to the Roman See.