CARF Foundation Board of Trustees for Social Action
What is the Patronato de Acción Social?
The Patronato de Acción Social (PAS) is an entity associated with the Foundation. CARF. Its objective is to complement its activity of serving the Church and the priests by coordinating all volunteer assistance.
How does it contribute?
The provision of vestments and liturgical objects to newly ordained priests in the form of the Sacred Vessels.
Medical-health assistance for priests or seminarians displaced from their countries of origin, and care and assistance for elderly priests who lack companionship.
Material support for various tasks in parishes in needy countries, enabling priests to devote their time fully to their pastoral mission.
Support for the installation and maintenance of parish churches, outbuildings or parish medical clinics in distressed areas.
The provision of books of doctrinal content for libraries and development cooperation actions.
What does the Patronato de Acción Social do?
The Patronato de Acción Social organizes various weekly workshops and specific activities to raise funds that are then invested in the formation of seminarians and priests from 131 countries.
We collect donations of furniture and antiques that we restore and then sell. If you have knowledge about antiques or restoration of furniture and furnishings, we need you! We are open from 5:30 pm to 8 pm.
Our volunteer team sews and embroiders the albs and liturgical linens. They are then delivered, along with the Holy Vessel Cases, to each seminarian who completes his formation and returns to his diocese to be ordained. We need many hands and enthusiasm. From 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Our volunteers sell all the donations (clothes, household goods, decorative objects, etc.) that come to us to raise funds to finance the intellectual, human and spiritual formation of seminarians and priests of the universities in Rome and Pamplona. From 17:30 to 20:00 hours.
The team of volunteers weaves baby clothes that we sell through our weekly flea market and the large biannual flea markets that we organize at the Patronato de Acción Social de la Fundación CARF. We also do commissioned work for individuals and companies. From 17:30 to 20:00 hours.
Events
Thursday: solidarity snacks
Coordinates: Rosana Diez-Canseco.
Testimonies with priests, seminarians or relevant personalities. We organize these meetings on an ad hoc basis and invite them for a snack in order to donate the proceeds to the CARF Foundation.
Biannual flea market
Coordination: Rosana and Carmen. Next date: unconfirmed.
Every three months we organize a solidarity market where we sell the things that come to us.
Annual flea market
Coordination: Rosana and Carmen. Next date: unconfirmed
A classic that never fails, the annual charity bazaar. It is held at the end of November and you can find everything: vintage furniture, baby clothes, tableware, among other things.
Who are the members of the Patronato de Acción Social?
Rosana Diez-Canseco
Carmen Ortega
Maite Elices
Bel Alarcón
María José Ivars
Cristina Gavarrón
Guadalupe Marina
Elena Gomez
Lola Fenoll
Isabel Otero
PAS History
The initiative to create the PAS arose in 1989 thanks to the drive of a small group of women, Tere Lledias, Lola Olagibel and Cristina Alonso, who thought about how to promote activities to involve many people in the task of praying for priestly vocations and for seminarians, and to raise funds for those who do not have the means to pay for their studies.
This last objective has focused, in a very special way, on seminarians from third world dioceses who lack the minimum resources. This gave rise to the idea of supporting CARF in the search for people to contribute money and time to obtain study grants to enable them to study in Rome and Pamplona.
In addition, as a detail at the end of their studies, they are given a backpack (Case of Sacred Vessels) with all the sacred elements necessary to be able to celebrate the Holy Mass in any corner of the planet, where there is not even a humble chapel to celebrate the Eucharist.
Do you want to help the Patronato de Acción Social?
Become a volunteer of the Patronato de Acción Social and help in one or all of the activities, workshops and work they do. By helping the PAS you will be collaborating with the formation of priests and seminarians from more than 130 countries.
