Performing service is an essential part of sacramental preparation because through service we show an understanding of our role in the community of believers - the Church. Loving God requires that we reach out to our neighbors and by acts of kindness; we are witnessing God’s love within us.
Guidlines for Service
20 hours total: helping family, friends, neighbors, and
outreach in the community see opportunites below.
On the third Saturday of most months, join a group from Saint Pius X Youth Ministry to serve breakfast at the Our Lady of the Road Catholic Worker House. High school and middle school students are welcome. Middle schoolers must be accompanied by a parent or older sibling. Sign up here!
Hope Ministries has kept their doors open to feed anyone who comes in for a meal just as they have done since 1954. They are averaging 150 per meal. They serve lunch and dinner daily.
Families can prepare meals to drop off and anything helps right now. Cassaroles can be made to serve between 15-20 people.
If you prefer desserts are also needed of any kind.
They happy to accept any donations.
There is no need to sign up you choose what to make and when!
Casseroles/desserts can be dropped off any day between 8am-8pm. When you go to please make sure they are clearly marked in disposable pans and include any instructions.
When you arrive at 432 S Lafayette Blvd
Call 234-4150
“I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be ‘protectors’ of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”
(Pope Francis, Homily at Inauguration, 3/19/13)