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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
Our Lenten season of prayer, fasting and almsgiving is almost upon us. We hope that you take a moment to explore all the wonderful faith formation resources available for your community to walk together this Lenten season. If you haven’t done so already, take time to explore the CRS Rice Bowl website. Also try the CRS Rice Bowl App and receive daily reflections.
Featured Countries:
- Guatemala
- Aganda
- Sri Lanka
- Sierra Leone
- Gaza
Please be sure to order a CRS Rice Bowl and Lenten Calendar for each family in your community. These materials are available in both English and Spanish and are free of charge.
You may also visit crsricebowl.org or crsplatodearroz.org to find additional resources.
January 14 - Materials have been shipped.
Resources:- CRS Rice Bowl App - Get daily reflections
- Signup for the weekly Rice Bowl reflections emails during Lent
- 2019 Stories of Hope.
- Holy Week.
- Catholic Relief Services- Rice Bowl Collection
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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,
NO LATER THAN 4:00 P.M.
CRS Rice Bowl Funds due May 31
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
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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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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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