Praise for Southern Cross sellers

by Letters Editor · March 27, 2010

From Loz Hayden, Hartebeespoort:

Your Parish of the Month feature features parishes that excel at selling of your excellent Catholic publication.

I buy The Southern Cross every weekend if it is available, but am frequently frustrated by the non-arrival of latest issues to our Good Shepherd parish in Hartebeespoort, North-West Province. So is our diligent Southern Cross promoter Manfred, who encourages fellow parishioners to buy the newspaper every Sunday as they leave Mass.

Could you not equate sales volumes to size of parish? For some less affluent parishes, the R5 price could represent a goodly portion of their weekly food bill.

� The Southern Cross team is always profoundly appreciative of the many people, usually unknown to us, who participate in the social communications apostolate by promoting the newspaper in their parish. The Parish of the Month feature is a way of expressing that appreciation. The selection of the featured parishes does take into account the size and location of parishes. If parishes would like to pay tribute to their Southern Cross sales team, we will gladly publish a photo of them. � Editor