- Bowl boxes will be distributed Ash Wednesday and Sundays in Lent
- Collect loose change or donations in the box during Lent.
- Count your offering, put in enclosed envelope, & drop in Palm Sunday Collection
About CRS Rice Bowl
CRS Rice Bowl is Catholic Relief Services’ Lenten faith-in-action program for parishes, schools and families. The program invites Catholics to live in solidarity with our poorest and most vulnerable brothers and sisters through the three Lenten pillars of praying, fasting, and almsgiving.
Participants journey throughout the forty days of Lent with the daily reflections included in the Lenten Calendar, offering small, suggested sacrificial gifts to fill their Rice Bowls as they read and watch Stories of Hope from individuals and communities whose lives have been changed by CRS Rice Bowl contributions.
Since 1975, Catholics have been using CRS Rice Bowl to
meditate on the love Jesus Christ demonstrates in His Passion and Resurrection and to
imitate Jesus’ love for the world through concrete, sacrificial giving to our brothers and sisters in need.
CRS Rice Bowl asks us to:
- Pray to deepen our relationship with God and reflect on what type of person He calls us to be.
- Fast to remove the things that get between us and God and to live in solidarity with those in need.
- Give alms to our brothers and sisters in need, honoring Jesus’ call to serve our neighbors.
