RICE BOWLS

Our Lenten alms project is the RICE BOWL sponsored by Catholic Relief Services. Rice bowls will be available in church for you to take home and place on our kitchen-dining room table as a reminder of the fasting and abstinence which is part of our Lenten observance. Money which you would normally spend on snacks and other non-essential food should be placed in the rice bowl and at the conclusion of Lent (Easter Sunday) brought to the church. The alms collected from the rice bowls is used to feed people throughout the world, especially in parts of Asia, Africa and Central America, where food insecurity is a serious issue. Alms giving is one of the major disciplines of the holy season of Lent.