Did You Take A Rice Bowl?

There are still plenty of rice bowls located in the baskets at the church entrance. Every household should take a rice bowl and place it on their table as a reminder during Lent of the fasting and abstinence we should be undergoing during this holy season. The money we are saving by denying ourselves of the snacks, etc of what we are giving up should then be placed in the rice bowl.
 
The rice bowls should be brought to church at Easter, not before. Lent concludes at Easter and therefore our alms should be practiced up to the Feast of our Lord’s Holy Resurrection!    (75% of the alms collected helps feed the poor internationally, 25% of the alms remains in the Diocese of Paterson for food distribution.)