This document discusses options for establishing a perpetual legacy donation to SS Cyril & Methodius Seminary. A $1.5 million endowment could support a faculty priest in perpetuity, while a $1 million named scholarship could fully fund a seminarian. Smaller gifts of $100,000, $40,000, and $5,000 can also generate annual earnings to support seminarians or scholarships every year. The seminary was founded in 1885 to prepare priests and lay people and spread Christianity to Slavic peoples, with campuses in Michigan and Poland. Donors are encouraged to consider leaving a legacy to honor others and support the seminary's mission in perpetuity.

1. Start a Perpetual Legacy
A living, eternal endowed legacy in your name (or
named for someone you wish to honor) can last
forever. Consider these options:
A $1.5 million Endowed Chair, reinvested and
paying conservative annual returns, would support
a faculty Priest while a $1 million Named
Scholarship (or Burse) would pay all the costs of a
Seminarian. Legacy funds are invested and
preserved with proceeds awarded in perpetuity.
A $100,000 Gift could generate $5,000 per year.
A $40,000 gift can fully attract, support and sustain
a new seminarian for one year OR the fund can be
invested into an Endowed Bequest to produce a
$2,000 perpetual scholarship every year.
A $5,000 Endowed Gift will produce enough
earnings to support a $250 per year scholarship.
Adopt a Seminarian
Provide immediate help to today's Seminarians
through our Adopt a Seminarian program in any
budget you can support. For example:
$2,000 will pay the travel costs to bring a
Seminarian from Europe to America.
$250 will feed a seminarian for a month.
$50 will buy a theological textbook.
Our Mission and Purpose
SS Cyril & Methodius Seminary, founded in
1885, is inspired by the missionary zeal of our
patrons who brought Christianity and a new
alphabet to Slavic peoples. We prepare priests
and lay people serving the entire United States
and helping evangelize the world. A single priest
reaches a million souls over his career. Your gifts
make you part of our mission to save souls.
More than 100 acres
The Orchard Lake Schools includes
SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary, Orchard Lake
St. Mary's Preparatory (an international
boarding school and day Catholic high school)
and The Polish Mission (art, museum,
educational and cultural offerings). We maintain
two chapels, a Marian Grotto, library, archives,
residential and dining halls, the Galeria, lakeside
woods, beach and complete athletic facilities,
including an NHL-sized ice arena. Our founder,
Father Joseph Dabrowski (1842-1903), was a
pioneer missionary and educator, bringing the
Felician Sisters to the United States and
establishing our institutions.
1 Priest
Reaches
1 Million souls
SS. Cyril & Methodius Seminary has campuses in
Orchard Lake, Michigan USA and Kraków, Poland.
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2. Missionaries: 'Make Disciples'
Orchard Lake missionaries have taken their calling
around the world. We have been graced by numerous
Holy missionaries, including honorary alumnus
St. John Paul II (who was here in
1969 and 1976).
Two Orchard Lake alumni are being
considered for Sainthood - Servant of
God, Father Walter Ciszek, a
Missionary to the Soviet Union who
endured 20 years as a prisoner of the
communist regime (author of With God in Russia and
He Leadeth Me) and Servant of God, Father Joseph
Walijewski, a Grand Rapids, Michigan native who spent
most of his career as a missionary in South America.
Father Zdzislaw Peszkowski, an alumnus and faculty
member who miraculously survived the 1940 Katyn
Forest Massacre, was nominated for the Nobel Prize in
2006.
Ensure the Future: How to
Leave a Legacy that can
save souls and plant seeds
for generations to come.
1. Decide who we
should honor. Our
advancement team can
help you formalize a plan
for who we'll honor and
set a budget and goals.
2. Your planned gift will
"go to work'' and be
invested along with the
Seminary endowment
funds, protecting principal
and reinvesting returns.
3. A predetermined
portion of the income
from endowed gifts will
support the seminarian,
faculty member or
project.
4. Gifts grow as the
remainder is reinvested
and as the recipients are
honored in the Seminary
Chapel and prayed for
daily.
Be their
Spark
Orchard Lake
Schools, with
campuses in
Orchard Lake,
Michigan USA and
Kraków, Poland,
has nurtured
thousands of
leaders including clergy and lay ministers, CEOs,
executives, Olympic and professional athletes, artists,
scholars, two future saints and a Nobel Prize nominee.
"In this setting, my dear members of the Orchard Lake
family, you can think about your vocation," St. John
Paul II said in his first Orchard Lake homily. "Listen to
this calling with your whole heart, mind and soul, and
follow it through to the end."
Divine Mercy scholars consider John Paul II to be "The
Spark from Poland," foretold in the Diary of St. Maria
Faustina Kowalska. Orchard Lake alumni and friends
discover and develop their own spark, leading and
inspiring followers around the world.
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How to Leave a Legacy and be Recognized, Remembered and Prayed For by Seminarians and Priests for generations
St. John Paul II in 1976.