Homeless in America: OCTOBER SERVANTS OF THE FATHER OF MERCY HOMELESS VOLUNTEERS' FALL SCHEDULE

Thursday, October 6, 2016

OCTOBER SERVANTS OF THE FATHER OF MERCY HOMELESS VOLUNTEERS' FALL SCHEDULE

All Sundays: October 9,16 and 30th at 2pm to 4pm, volunteers join us for free lunch, homeless planning meeting and Liturgy of the Hours. Come to our HQ at 1544 Morse Avenue, Suite A, Ventura, CA 93003

A "Mini Retreat" . . . The Bible: A text message of mercy! at St. Catherine's by-the-sea, 1931 Poli Street, Ventura, CA 93001, Saturday, October 8th. Sr. Gloria Valdovinos, director of the Siena Prayer Center and Br. Gary Joseph, founder of the Servants of the Father of Mercy team up to present the first of 5 "mini retreats" for anyone that needs soul food, refreshment and maintenance of spirit. It's always the 2nd Saturday of the month beginning Saturday, October 8th - February 2017, 9am to 11am, Mass to follow. Bring your Bible, notepad and pen. Get wrapped up in the Scripture texts and discover one singular message all the way from Genesis to Revelation. Got questions? Call Bro. Joseph at (310) 595-4175. Register the morning of the retreat or RSVP in the comments. A donation to the Siena Prayer Center appreciated,

The world-renown Coachella Valley Music Festival is in October, therefore there will be NO homeless StreetReach to Indio, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Indian Wells and Cathedral City, normally meeting on a Sunday at 7:30am - Holiday Inn, Palm Desert/Indian Wells, Cook Road and the 111.

Sunday, October 23rd, join us at Sacred Heart Church, Saticoy and St. Joseph’s Church, Carpinteria for “World Mission Sunday”, Bro. Gary Joseph and team will be speaking on that day at all the Masses. Help hand out Father of Mercy holy cards.

Friday, October 28th, 9:30am, make sack lunches for the homeless at our HQ in Ventura, CA, 1544 Morse Avenue, Suite A, Ventura, CA 93003.

Friday, October 28th, 6pm to 9pm, “Youth & Family Night” our “Halloween is Baaack Party” for family, children, big and little kids. Get ready for pizza, prizes, pumpkin carving and the-now-famous, “All Saints Game” and more!

Saturday, October 29th, Homeless StreetReach, Ventura and Los Angeles, meet at our HQ in Ventura, CA at 8:30am.

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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.
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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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