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The Life and Justice Ministry together with the St. Vincent de Paul Society would like to assist St. Charles Borromeo parishioners who may be struggling to meet their family's food needs.
To do so, we need your help!
Please consider making a donation toward the purchase of grocery store gift cards for those in need.
Sharing with the poor means mutual enrichment. And, if there are unhealthy social structures that prevent them from dreaming of the future, we must work together to heal them, to change them. And we are led to this by the love of Christ, Who loved us to the extreme (see Jn 13:1), and reaches the boundaries, the margins, the existential frontiers. Bringing the peripheries to the centre means focusing our life on Christ, Who “made Himself poor” for us, to enrich us “by His poverty” (2 Cor 8:9),2 as we have heard. Pope Francis, General Audience, August 19, 2020
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'A woman of faith, action and energy': Sr. Mary Scullion of Project HOME - National Catholic Reporter, 9.7.20
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Making the poor a priority isn't political, it's the Gospel, pope says - National Catholic Reporter, August 19, 2020
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Message of Pope Francis for 2022 World Day of the Poor, November 13, 2022 - Vatican
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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
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Message of the Holy Father Francis to the Director General of the FAO on the occasion of World Food Day, 10.16.2022
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Catholic Relief Services in Somalia - CRS
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On average, 1.5 million children experience homelessness in a year. More than 37 million Americans live in poverty. - povertyusa.org
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The Global Child Thrive Act (H.R. 4864) seeks to develop and implement policies to advance early childhood development, to provide assistance for orphans and other vulnerable children in developing countries, and for other purposes.