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Lady Poverty Region's Outreach a Success!JPIC Service Project for Lady Poverty Region May 30 – June 1, 2025
Lord, You sent the Apostles with Your Spirit to carry out Your mission of love and mercy.
Breathe Your Spirit into us, that we may boldly follow Your example, serve those in need, and work for justice in our world.
May we always be mindful of the call to care for creation and share Your peace. Amen.
The Dorothy Day House in Youngstown, Ohio, is a charity supported by the Sisters of the Humility of Mary at Villa Maria Spirituality and Education Center. Their mission statement: “In the spirit of Dorothy Day, the Youngstown Catholic Worker is a community, founded on personal relationships, committed to learning and living the gospel of love through hospitality and peaceful resistance to injustice.” They offer “an evening meal, a safe place to relax, access to a shower, fresh produce from the garden, and most of all, a warm welcome with the promise of respect for everyone who walks through the door.”
At our Annual Meeting on May 31, 2025, Secular Franciscan members of Lady Poverty Region generously donated and made “blessing bags” for the guests at Dorothy Day House, and hundreds of pounds of toiletries, socks, and snacks. In addition, we collected $505. in financial assistance! They were so appreciative, and sent their gratitude and prayers to us. Valerie, the coordinator, said, "I don't know if you can understand how much this means to our efforts here. We always rely on donations to come at exactly the right time. But we never expected this!" We Secular Franciscans will continue to pray for the guests and volunteer workers at the Dorothy Day House, for their commitment to gospel values, for their concern for each other’s dignity and well-being, and for their advocacy for the common good.
Peace and all good!
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Charity and Social Justice
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Secretariat Bulletins & Resources
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Seeking Wisdom’s Light
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Season of Creation 2024
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MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
FOR THE WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE CARE OF CREATION
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Francis' First Act of Social Justice
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Project H2O Needs your HELP!
H20 Project 2024
The Lenten H2O Project is an easy way for our entire national fraternity to take collective action for the poor who have no access to clean drinking water. During Lent, whenever you would normally buy a coffee or soda, have water instead, and put aside the money saved. Also make a note to focus on and appreciate the clean water that is so available to us, say a prayer, and think of our brothers and sisters who can only dream of clean tap water. Lent is the promotion, but contributions are accepted all year.
Sample prayer:
Lord, may I fall in love with you again, in contemplation of the stupendous miracle of creation, in which your hand is majestic and self-evident.
And may I never again take for granted a grain of soil, drop of water, or a single breath of the precious and fragile atmosphere of our sister Mother Earth, bequeathed to us in love…
Amen
“My fraternity collects cash throughout the year for the H2O
fund. We each have
a small plastic jug, and the fraternity has a large one that the money goes into.”
You can choose to give individually or collectively with your families, fraternities, or faith communities. Last year, your donations helped bring clean water to Jackson Mississippi residents during their city’s water crisis, also toward a well drilling project in Africa, sponsored by CIOFS. On behalf of those communities, thank you!
Please send all contributions to the H2O Lenten Project 2024, c/o Claudia Kauzlarich, 2007 Maverick Trail Harrisonville, MO 64701-1545. Make the check payable to OFSUSA; with H20 Project in the memo line. Thank you for your contributions!
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