During the last week of July, I had the incredible privilege to work with more than 70 middle-school and high-school aged students during our parish's annual "Week of Service, Week of Hope".
Throughout that week, the students volunteered at different sites around the community, including a soup kitchen, summer camp, nursing home, homeless shelter, and a living center for single mothers and their children.
With great enthusiasm and love, our students brought the hope of the Gospel with them wherever they served! Their energy and willingness to help others was inspiring. Along with participating at various ministry sites, each student also prayerfully reflected on his or her experience.
Throughout that week, the students volunteered at different sites around the community, including a soup kitchen, summer camp, nursing home, homeless shelter, and a living center for single mothers and their children.
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| Our official "Week of Service" t-shirt. |
We also challenged the students to see the face of Christ in all those they encountered. Everybody, most especially the poor, the lowly, and the vulnerable, are living images of the Lord!
Pope Francis calls us to build up a "culture of encounter," one in which we generously reach out to others in order to share the love and mercy of God. This "Week of Service" did precisely that!
Pope Francis calls us to build up a "culture of encounter," one in which we generously reach out to others in order to share the love and mercy of God. This "Week of Service" did precisely that!
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