Tag: poor

Power in Prayer: March 20, 2022

Posted on March 20, 2022

Absorption in one’s own interests causes the heart to grow hard and die. Let us pray for the gift of life for all our brothers and sisters. Lord of life, grant life to all. For those that are rich in Power in Prayer: March 20, 2022

Save Our Vegetable Garden

Posted on March 3, 2022

Whether you want to champion the effort or play a small role, we need volunteers to keep the St. Isidore community vegetable garden going. The garden was created in honor of St Isidore patron of farmers. To get started, we Save Our Vegetable Garden

S.I.T.E. Pajama Project

Posted on February 16, 2022

Every year S.I.T.E. holds a “Pajama Project” collection for Friends of Foster Kids. It’s such a blessing knowing we’re making a difference in the lives of children whose worlds have been turned upside down. This year the organization is asking S.I.T.E. Pajama Project

Make a Difference Donations

Posted on November 10, 2021

The last weekend of each month, you are invited to bring a donation from the St. Vincent de Paul needs list or a canned/powedered Similac (no liquid) for our Baby Pantry to Mass. Children (of all ages) will be invited Make a Difference Donations

Power in Prayer: September 26, 2021

Posted on September 26, 2021

“There are so many people in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more people dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty-it is not Power in Prayer: September 26, 2021

MCREST

Posted on August 9, 2021

MCREST (Macomb County Rotating Emergency Shelter Team) is a transitional shelter which provides homeless and displaced individuals the opportunity for successful transition to independence. MCREST started out as a one day “day camp” for the homeless in 1988. With the MCREST

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 5/9/2021

Posted on May 5, 2021

No love in mortality comes closer to approximating the pure love of Jesus Christ than the selfless love a devoted mother has for her child. Jeffrey R. Holland We are starting to put together kits for the children we are St. Vincent de Paul Update for 5/9/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 4/25/21

Posted on April 20, 2021

Help honors when to the bread that nourishes it adds the visit that consoles, the advice that enlightens, the friendly shake of the hand that lifts up the sinking courage; when it treats the poor man with respect, not only St. Vincent de Paul Update for 4/25/21

St. Vincent de Paul Update 3/21/2021

Posted on March 17, 2021

Nothing seems tiresome or painful when you are working for a Master who pays well; who rewards even a cup of cold water given for love of Him. St. Dominic Savio Our Easter Food Distribution is this Wednesday the 24th St. Vincent de Paul Update 3/21/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 3/7/2021

Posted on March 3, 2021

Let us go then, my brothers, and work with a new love in the service of the poor, looking even for the most destitute and abandoned among them. Let us recognize that before God they are our lords and masters St. Vincent de Paul Update for 3/7/2021

Lenten Giving Tree 2021

Posted on March 1, 2021

During Lent we spread God’s Word through our good works around the world. As in past years, the St. Isidore parish family is sponsoring two charities and supporting God’s people from around the world who are in desperate need. Two Lenten Giving Tree 2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 1/17/2021

Posted on January 7, 2021

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; St. Vincent de Paul Update for 1/17/2021

Thank you for your Christmas generosity

Posted on December 18, 2020

Thank you, St. Isidore. We asked for donations of hats, scarfs, gloves and socks, and you knocked our socks off with your response. We began our collection on December 7 and ended on December 16. In nine days you donated Thank you for your Christmas generosity

Hats for the Homeless

Posted on November 24, 2020

During this time, we may be worrying about how we can safely enjoy the coming Holidays with our family or shopping for gifts and food, but there are people whose only worry is “will I be warm or have a Hats for the Homeless

Whose gift means more?

Posted on November 23, 2020

Monday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time Today’s gospel is St. Luke’s account of the Widow’s mite. Watching the wealthy put their gifts into the treasury, but Jesus points out the small gift of the widow because she gave Whose gift means more?

Connecting Point: November 22, 2020

Posted on November 16, 2020

Many of us have watched an episode of “Undercover Boss.” The show has the CEO or owner of the company disguise themselves as a new employee assigned to learn different aspects of someone’s job. After a few weeks on the Connecting Point: November 22, 2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/12/2020

Posted on September 12, 2020

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. St. Thomas Aquinas Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps. St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/12/2020

The child that has the highest place in a mom’s heart

Posted on September 9, 2020

Wednesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time Often, in a mother’s eyes, the child who has the highest place in her heart is the one who needs her the most.In today’s Gospel, we read of St. Luke’s version of The child that has the highest place in a mom’s heart

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/4/20

Posted on September 4, 2020

“You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.” – St. Catherine of Siena “However great our efforts, we cannot change ourselves. Only God can get to the bottom of St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/4/20

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/7/2020

Posted on August 7, 2020

“Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.” St. Vincent de Paul “The deeds you do may be the only sermon some people will hear today.” St. St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/7/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 7/30/2020

Posted on July 30, 2020

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” St. Francis of Assisi “All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come St. Vincent de Paul Update for 7/30/2020

Daily Homily 7/16/2020

Posted on July 16, 2020

Thursday of the 15th Week in Ordinary TimeFr. Ron reflects on how we should pray for the poor and oppressed who can in many cases carry burdens much greater than our own. READINGS:Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19;Ps 102:13-14ab and 15, 16-18, Daily Homily 7/16/2020

SVDP Food Distribution on March 25

Posted on March 28, 2020

The St. Vincent de Paul Society was privileged on Wednesday evening, March 25th, to provide 40 families with gift cards, boxes of food and bags of soaps, paper and personal hygiene products. We also gave each family bags of assorted Easter SVDP Food Distribution on March 25

St. Vincent de Paul Update 3/22/20

Posted on March 19, 2020

In the spirit of our founder, Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, and patron, St. Vincent de Paul, we will continue to help our neighbors in need with rent, utilities, and food. We are taking every precaution to protect these vulnerable families and our St. Vincent de Paul Update 3/22/20

Connecting Point: April 7, 2019

Posted on April 4, 2019

“How can I show compassion for those I am tempted to condemn?” In today’s society we see people placing judgment and giving condemnation in the news, at school, in the workplace and on social media. Many people have no problem Connecting Point: April 7, 2019

Mission of DB Peru Thanks St. Isidore

Posted on January 18, 2019

St. Isidore does a lot to reach out to those in need both locally and beyond. The following is a letter of gratitude from The Mission of DB Peru, a group that provides access to healthcare knowledge and delivery, and imporving Mission of DB Peru Thanks St. Isidore

Kids Coalition Against Hunger

Posted on October 2, 2018

Join the St. Isidore community and other local groups as we meet again to package food which benefits people all over the world as well as those in our local community in Macomb. The packing goal is set at 100,000 Kids Coalition Against Hunger

Connecting Point : February 11, 2018

Posted on February 9, 2018

How can I reach out to people I normally avoid? The major issue is that we avoid people at all. Jesus ate with tax collectors, accepted water and shared hope with an adulteress among others. He made connections with the Connecting Point : February 11, 2018