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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).

2019 Rice Bowl Collection March 6

• Guatemala
• Aganda
• Sri Lanka
• Sierra Leone
• Gaza

There are two options now to submit your Rice Bowl Grant grant:

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

New for 2019 - Rice Bowl Remittance Form to the Dioceses: 

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
Davenport Iowa, 52804-1901 

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...
 

Rice Bowl Grant Recipients History  

Catholic Relief Services- Rice Bowl Collection