Homeless in America: February 2018

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Joy to The World - All the Boys and Girls!

Joy to The World - All the Boys and Girls

Joy to the World - All the Boys and Girls!

Mercy Homeless Productions – Movie-short . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIndRQoJC8

Homeless in Los Angeles, Saturday, February 24, 2018. Join the Servants of the Father of Mercy,1544 Morse Avenue, Ventura, CA team where volunteers regularly give and receive joy. Email Info@servantsofthefather.org or call and join the team at (310) 595-4175.

Sunday, February 25, 2018

April Showers Bring May Flowers!

SERVANTS OF THE FATHER OF MERCY NEWSLETTER APRIL & MAY 2018

4/1 Easter Sunday, 10am celebrate the Resurrection at our Sunday Eucharistic Liturgy. Be at the chapel and help deliver Easter gifts to the Ventura area homeless until 12:30 noon. FREE Easter lunch to follow!

4/27 Friday, 9:30am, make lunches for homeless along with packing up the truck/trailer for Saturday’s delivery in Los Angeles and Ventura.

4/28 Saturday at 8:30 am be here in Ventura, CA to go and deliver clothing, food, water and more to the homeless in Ventura or Los Angeles. Or meet in Los Angeles at 11am at St. Peter's Church.

4/29 Sunday, 2 pm to 5pm - Youth & Family Sunday! Make crafts “April Showers Bring May Flowers” for the sick and elderly, deliver the gifts to Treacy Villa nursing home and then team pizza lunch and salad bar for everyone at Round Table Pizza in Ventura.

TENTH ANNUAL TEAM RETREAT

FRIDAY—SUNDAY, MAY 25—27
MSGR. LIAM KIDNEY, SPEAKER

FREE by donation—the annual Servants of the Father of Mercy retreat is Memorial Day weekend, Friday 2pm to Sunday 2pm, May 25, 26, 27, 2018 at the St. Catherine's by-the-sea, Siena Prayer Center, Ventura, CA. Reserve Now! At the Siena Prayer Center, 1931 Poli Street, Ventura, CA 93001 RSVP Call (310 )595-4175.

Friday, February 16, 2018

This recipe needs you!

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Just one recipe makes 5 family favorites.

This recipe (video-short below) needs you!

You need this cookbook! Available at Amazon.com or call (310) 595-4175.

All the proceeds, 100% of sales benefit 80,000 + homeless Americans we serve! Servants of the Father of Mercy, Inc. - Mercy Books

St Joseph's Table Cookbook

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

New Civil War in America!

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Happy Valentine's Day!

"Love! You can't leave to chance!" Bro. Gary Joseph

Monday, February 12, 2018

The "Love Bug" Invaders

Meet the Love Team with their "Love Bug" Invaders: Ventura Convalescent Hospital, Sunday, February 11, 2017.

Join the all-volunteer team today, let us know in the comments below!

Celebrating Love all Valentine's Week!

A movie-short with hugs from our team . . .

Shower the People with Love!

Friday, February 9, 2018

Chubby Camels

Who is the "Servants of the Father of Mercy" and what do they do?

The "Servants of the Father of Mercy" is an Association and Catholic ministry of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

In actuality, it just looks like we help the homeless . . .

But in reality, "Servants of the Father of Mercy" helps middle-class and wealthy people to go to heaven by inviting them to donate their money and hearts, having compassion on the poor homeless. So, that is our mission, "to help people who have homes and wealth to enter the Kingdom of God."

Jesus said: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven." Mark 10:25

May God bless you as you follow the "Servants of the Father of Mercy" on social media, and we pray you will have a lot of success taking from your wealth and giving it to the poor. Ultimately, the rich and poor, we can all make it to heaven together!

Prayers and blessings . . .

The Servants of the Father of Mercy Team

www.ServantsoftheFather.org

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Well, Marie Foti (Photo 1 - pretty gal in the white dress) recently reminded friends that 2018 is the 10th anniversary of the opening Mass of the Servants of the Father of Mercy. Peter Torsiello (Photo 1 - awesome leader with the guitar) and music group were the worship team for the celebration. It was held at St. Peter's Italian Catholic Church, Chinatown, Los Angeles, January 26, 2008.

Present at that Mass were Myrna Emata (piano) along with 30 other musicians, singers and guests. (Photo 2 - that is Westwood, Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Community's drummer, Joel Fischer on percussion.)

However, the first servants began helping the homeless in Los Angeles under the 3rd Street bridge in 2001. All-totaled, we now celebrate 16 years of the privilege of serving the poorest of the poor in Southern California.

Friday, February 2, 2018

YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE!

In Menlo Park, NJ in 1879 (New Years Eve), Thomas Edison gave the gift of light to the entire world.

In Jerusalem, Israel in the year 33, Jesus Christ by his resurrection gave the gift of light to the souls, hearts and minds of all the peoples of the world.

In the year 00, God said, "Let there be light!" and gave the gift of light to the entire universe.

The Wealthy & Middle Class Sin of Self-righteousness may not be easily Seen or Confessed

"One of the temptations of upper-middle class life is to create sharp edges of our moral sensitivities and it allows a comfortable confusion about sin and virtue. The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor’s sin, but that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue. When the poor sin, they [the poor] call it sin; when they see holiness, they identify it as such. The intuitive clarity is often absent from the wealthy, and that absence easily leads to the atrophy of the moral sense." Fr. Henri Nouwen

Mary, A Celestial Apparition or Model of Mercy

From Fatima and Lourdes to Mexico City, millions of pilgrims flock to Mary, our Blessed Mother. What does she require of her spiritual children? Does she need a spectacle of mystical and celestial adoration? Would it be more pleasing to her that we also follow her in lowliness and humbly participate in God’s mercy for the poor? Mary proclaims in Luke chapter one, “For he has looked with favor on his lowly servant… He has cast down the mighty from their thrones and lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty… He has remembered his promise of mercy.”

Discovering God in our own Poverty

When we are not afraid to confess our own poverty, we will be able to be with other people in theirs. The Christ who lives in our own poverty recognizes the Christ who lives in other people’s. Just as we are inclined to ignore our own poverty, we are inclined to ignore other’s. We prefer not to see people who are destitute, we do not like to look at people who are deformed or disabled, we avoid talking about people’s pains and sorrows, we stay away from brokenness, helplessness and neediness. By this avoidance we lose touch with the people through whom God is manifested to us. But when we have discovered God in our own poverty, we will lose our fear of the poor and go to them and meet God.
Henri Nouwen

Grace Flows from Gratitude

Did "God shed His grace on thee?" The homeless in America have many things to teach us who think we are rich. When the last meal was not as good as usual, I am thankful for what I was given - grace flows from gratitude. When the house requires more work than usual, I am thankful for the shelter - grace flows from gratitude. When going to work becomes a complaint, I am thankful for the income - grace flows from graitude. When the mattress becomes less comfortable today than it was the night before, I am thankful for my bed - grace flows from gratitude. When my companions in life seem to bring more work than they bring joy, I am thankful for friends - grace flows from gratiude. The homeless in America have many things to teach us who think we are rich.

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