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Orange Marmalade Helps Presiding Bishop's Fund

Diocesan Press Service. November 7, 1975 [75392]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A check for $150 for the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief of the Episcopal Church is not unusual. What is unusual about a check for that amount recently received in the Episcopal Church Center office of the Fund is the way the money was earned.

Mrs. Mary Mercogliano, a communicant at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, Mountain View, California, in the Diocese of California, made orange marmalade from the harvest of oranges from the tree in the church's courtyard and gave the receipts to the Fund.

During the 1975 Lenten Season, Mrs. Mercogliano made 100 pounds of marmalade -- using 20 percent of the harvest from the tree -- with the sugar contributed by another parishioner. The marmalade, she said, was sold to members and friends of the parish and the entire $150 was sent to the Presiding Bishop's Fund.

"The support I received from my parish was outstanding," Mrs. Mercogliano, who was recently married, said. "With faith and willing hands we will hopefully do the same next harvest. "

In a note accompanying the check, Mrs. Mercogliano said, "Thank you for giving me another place through which to do God's work."

The record-breaking receipts to the Presiding Bishop's Fund in 1975 have already passed the $2.5 million mark, far more than twice the total receipts for all of 1974.