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Ways to deepen this year's lenten experience:
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Parishes and Catholic Schools across the U.S. participate in the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Rice Bowl Lenten program. Through prayer, learning, fasting and giving, parishioners learn solidarity with families and individuals in other countries. During Lent, Parishioners are asked to contribute to the CRS Rice Bowl collection. These funds further the work of CRS internationally, and support of organizations locally for programs that compliment CRS objectives such as feeding the hungry. The first 25% of the total collection is retained by the Diocese for use as grants to such local organizations. The other 75% assists CRS to address causes of global poverty and hunger.
The Bishop appoint a Diocesan Board to allocate the Rice Bowl funds retained for local use. The Board is composed of clergy, religious, and laypeople from around the Diocese, and is chaired by the Diocesan Director for CRS, and is the same Board and Director for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
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2019 Rice Bowl Collection March 6
CRS Rice Bowl 2019 Materials Postcard/Poster: Parishes are to watch the mail for the CRS Rice Bowl Lent 2019 Materials Order. Please Review and update your order quantities if needed otherwise you will be sent the same quantity of materials you received in 2018.
If you don’t have any updates you still need to mail the postcard back to CRS.CRS Rice Bowl 2019 Materials Postcard/Poster
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There are two options now to submit your Rice Bowl Grant grant:
1. Grant Application Packet: In the grant packet you will find the grant criteria, grant application and progress report form. Grant request can be submitted by mail using downloadable packet or electronically using website form below.Paper Grant application can be mail to:
Rice Bowl
C/o Social Action Office
Diocese of Davenport
780 West Central Park Avenue
Davenport, IA 52804-1901
2. Online
DUE DATE IN OUR OFFICE MAY 15,
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CRS Rice Bowl Funds due May 31
New for 2019 - Rice Bowl Remittance Form:
Please submit all CRS Rice Bowl funds to the finance office by May 31. Using the Remittance form. Please also write CRS-Rice Bowl Collection in the checks memo line. If you have any questions please contact Loxi Hopkins at 563-888-4212.
Please submit your Rice Bowl collections promptly to:
Diocese of Davenport
Attn: Nancy Karn
780 West Central Park Avenue
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Warm your heart this Lent
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,It has been a cold winter. Yes, the temperatures outside have been well below freezing, with wind chills in the negative double-digits. It has been a cold winter, and a cold year, in other ways as well. Pope Francis makes this point in his Lenten letter. He writes that, rather than being wreathed in flames, Satan — as pictured by Dante in The Inferno — is frozen in a throne of ice. Love is absent.
We have seen what coldness of heart can do. It treats persons who are not yet born, who are older or ill, or who have a disability as disposable. It treats the stranger — the migrant and the refugee — as a scapegoat. It treats persons of color as if they do not matter. It treats creation itself as simply material for our use, and as a receptacle for our refuse. Read more...
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Links to more information
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Contact Us
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Kent Ferrisferrisdavenportdiocese.orgSocial Action & Catholic Charities Director -
Esmeralda Guerreroguerrerodavenportdiocese.orgAdministrative Assistant Social Action & Catholic Charities -
Loxi Hopkinshopkinsdavenportdiocese.orgCCHD/CRS Diocesan Director
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