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St. Vincent de Paul Update for 1/30/2022

Posted on January 26, 2022

Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. …Charity is refusing to take advantage St. Vincent de Paul Update for 1/30/2022

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 1/16/2022

Posted on January 12, 2022

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being Christian is more than making sound professions of St. Vincent de Paul Update for 1/16/2022

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/26/2021

Posted on December 22, 2021

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” St. Mother St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/26/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/28/2021

Posted on November 24, 2021

Your compassion for our neighbors in need is astounding! The St. Isidore community is very generous and we thank you for helping us help others. We are less than 3 weeks away from our Christmas Distribution on December 16th, so St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/28/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/14/2021

Posted on November 10, 2021

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill We are a less than a week away from our Thanksgiving Distribution. If you would like to donate, please bring donations St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/14/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/7/2021

Posted on November 3, 2021

Great occasions for serving God come seldom but little ones surround us daily. St. Francis de Sales We are 1½ weeks away from our Thanksgiving Distribution. We will not be giving out turkeys or hams but will give our families St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/7/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/24/2021

Posted on October 25, 2021

“We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” – St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta We are 2 ½ weeks away from our Thanksgiving Distribution. We will not be giving out turkeys or hams St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/24/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/17/2021

Posted on October 20, 2021

Let your heart be full of compassion for the poor, and lovingly assist them, because the name of Jesus is engraved on their countenance. When you have not the means of helping your neighbor, recommend him fervently to God, Whose St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/17/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/17/2021

Posted on October 13, 2021

We must mirror God’s love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God’s love, so we may show Jesus by our lives. – Corrie Ten Boom St. Isidore parishioners are full of love St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/17/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/10/2021

Posted on October 6, 2021

I am sent not only to love God but to make Him loved. It is not enough for me to love God, if my neighbor does not love Him. St. Vincent de Paul St. Isidore parishioners are full of love St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/10/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/26/2021

Posted on September 22, 2021

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God. – St. Vincent de Paul St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/26/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/2/2021

Posted on September 8, 2021

We should recall that no man is an island, entire of itself. Our lives are involved with one another, through innumerable interactions they are linked together. No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is saved alone. The St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/2/2021

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

Posted on August 31, 2021

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty. St. Mother St. Vincent de Paul Update for 9/5/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/29/2021

Posted on August 25, 2021

Our true worth does not consist in what human beings think of us. What we really are consists in what God knows us to be. St. John Berchmans Too often on tv we see the bad in the people all St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/29/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/22/2021

Posted on August 18, 2021

Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance. St. Vincent de Paul Our Back To School Distribution was a huge success thanks to your generous donations of St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/22/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 7/18/2021

Posted on July 14, 2021

Helping a person in need is good in itself. But the degree of goodness is hugely affected by the attitude with which it is done. If you show resentment because you are helping the person out of a reluctant sense St. Vincent de Paul Update for 7/18/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 6/27/2021

Posted on June 17, 2021

It is certainly true that he who is humble is also faithful to God, because the humble man is also just in giving to all their due, and above all, in rendering to God the things that are God’s; that St. Vincent de Paul Update for 6/27/2021

St. Vincent de Paul update for 6/20/2021

Posted on June 16, 2021

Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but (also) everyone for those of others. Have among yourselves the same attitude that St. Vincent de Paul update for 6/20/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 6/6/2021

Posted on June 2, 2021

In a generous spirit pay homage to the LORD, be not sparing of freewill gifts. With each contribution show a cheerful countenance, and pay your tithes in a spirit of joy. Give to the Most High as he has given St. Vincent de Paul Update for 6/6/2021

A Successful Spring Cleaning Event

Posted on June 1, 2021

How does one word this delicately? St. Isidore and our surrounding neighbors sure do have a lot of ‘STUFF!!’ The result of the Spring Cleaning Event was tremendous. The volunteers received many, many compliments and words of thanks for having A Successful Spring Cleaning Event

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 5/30/21

Posted on May 25, 2021

Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this St. Vincent de Paul Update for 5/30/21

St. Vincent de Paul update for 5/16/2021

Posted on May 12, 2021

Do you really know the living Jesus – not from books but from being with Him in your heart? Have you heard the loving words He speaks to you? Ask for the grace; He is longing to give it. Until St. Vincent de Paul update for 5/16/2021

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 5/2/2021

Posted on April 28, 2021

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer. Edward McKendree Bounds There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; St. Vincent de Paul Update for 5/2/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 4/18/2021

Posted on April 9, 2021

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing higher, nothing stronger, nothing larger, nothing more joyful, nothing fuller, nothing better in heaven or on earth; for love is born of God and can find its rest only in God above all He St. Vincent de Paul Update for 4/18/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 3/28/2021

Posted on March 24, 2021

Since we are fundamentally dependent on God and in His debt for our creation and redemption, our love is always owed to Him, a duty, a response to His love. But we can love our neighbor in the same way St. Vincent de Paul Update for 3/28/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 3/13/2021

Posted on March 10, 2021

If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. St. Thomas of Villanova We are St. Vincent de Paul Update for 3/13/2021

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

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 2/28/2021

Posted on February 24, 2021

A tree is known but its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. St. Basil the Great We are only 3 weeks St. Vincent de Paul Update for 2/28/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 2/21/2021

Posted on February 17, 2021

We should strive to keep our hearts open to the sufferings and wretchedness of other people, and pray continually that God may grant us that spirit of compassion which is truly the spirit of God. St. Vincent de Paul We St. Vincent de Paul Update for 2/21/2021

St. Vincent de Paul update for 2/14/2021

Posted on February 10, 2021

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and St. Vincent de Paul update for 2/14/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 2/7/2021

Posted on February 3, 2021

Always be impartial and just in your deeds. Put yourself into your neighbor’s place, and him in yours, then you will judge fairly…Frequently, therefore, examine your heart, whether it is so disposed towards your neighbor, as you would have his St. Vincent de Paul Update for 2/7/2021

St. Vincent de Paul update for 1/31/2021

Posted on January 27, 2021

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts. St. Thomas Aquinas When a neighbor calls for help there can be trepidation on the St. Vincent de Paul update for 1/31/2021

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/27/2020

Posted on December 23, 2020

O my God, teach me to be generous, to serve you as you deserve to be served, to give without counting the cost, to fight without fear of being wounded, to work without seeking rest, and to spend myself without St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/27/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/20/2020

Posted on December 15, 2020

Mary was the most perfect among the saints only because she was always perfectly united to the will of God. St. Alphonsus Liguori Our Christmas Distribution was this past week and once again our parishioner’s generosity amazed us! Because of St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/20/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/13/2020

Posted on December 8, 2020

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. St. Clement of Alexandria We are less than 1 week away from our Christmas Distribution on December 17th, so as you shop in stores or on-line St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/13/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/6/2020

Posted on December 2, 2020

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. St. Thomas Aquinas St. Vincent de Paul Update for 12/6/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/29/2020

Posted on November 24, 2020

The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace. St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta We are less than 3 St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/29/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/22/2020

Posted on November 12, 2020

It’s not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, that is the true measure of our thanksgiving. W.T. Purkiser We conducted our drive-thru Thanksgiving Distribution this past week. We helped 38 families with a total of St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/22/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for November 9, 2020

Posted on November 9, 2020

“I am sent not only to love God but to make Him loved. It is not enough for me to love God, if my neighbor does not love Him.” St. Vincent de Paul This coming week we are having our St. Vincent de Paul Update for November 9, 2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/2/2020

Posted on November 2, 2020

“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.” – St. Teresa of Avila We are 1 1/2 weeks away from our Thanksgiving Distribution. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have decided that St. Vincent de Paul Update for 11/2/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/25/2020

Posted on October 19, 2020

Preserve the warmth of the family, because the warmth of the whole world cannot make up for it. St. Charbel Makhlouf We are 3 weeks away from our Thanksgiving Distribution. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we have decided that we St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/25/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/12/20

Posted on October 12, 2020

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love. St. Therese of Lisieux We are 4 weeks away from St. Vincent de Paul Update for 10/12/20

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

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/20/20

Posted on August 20, 2020

“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/20/20

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/14/20

Posted on August 14, 2020

Brothers and sisters: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Moreover, God is able to make St. Vincent de Paul Update for 8/14/20

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

St. Vincent de Paul Update for 7/23/2020

Posted on July 23, 2020

“The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them.” – St. Vincent de Paul “The Lord measures our perfection not by the number and greatness of the works we do for Him, but by our St. Vincent de Paul Update for 7/23/2020

St. Vincent de Paul Update 7/16/2020

Posted on July 17, 2020

“The most deadly poison of our time is indifference. And this happens although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise him to the greatest extent of our powers.” – St. Maximilian Kolbe “Each St. Vincent de Paul Update 7/16/2020