Homeless in America: April 2018

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Just Like FTD, We Deliver!

Servants of the Father of Mercy, Alice Maes is 92 years young, today, Sunday, April 29th delivering springtime flowers, love and hugs to the elderly, sick and staff of Treacy Villa Nursing Home, Ventura, CA!

Remember Me!

"Remember me! I live all alone. I wait for your footsteps. Remember me." Joe Wise

Today is Sunday April 28th - delivering springtime flowers to the staff, elderly and sick of Treacy Villa Nursing Home, Ventura, CA.

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Team Work!

May the Lord bless all of today’s Servants of the Father of Mercy team serving the homeless in Southern California! Left to right are Gerhard Mueller, Vern Seto and Steven Storbakken. Not in the photo are Cipriano Padilla from St. Peter's Church, Michelle Noordhof and all the family there that made 100s of fresh lunch boxes. Also, in Ventura thanks to Angela Chavez and Adelina Frutos' grandmother, Maggie Cervantes for making water and snack bags for everyone!

Toni

Visiting Toni, today in Los Angeles - “What you have done for the least of these, you have done unto me!”

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Easter Bunny Helpers Wanted!

Easter Bunny Helpers Wanted!

This Sat. 8:30am deliver sack lunches to the homeless. Who can help? Call (310) 595-4175 or RSVP below . . .

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Rich Red Roses!

The Blessed Mother granted two rich red roses in today’s prayer garden each representing in total the $2 million needed this week to establish the St. Joseph’s Inn!

Thursday, April 12, 2018

A Room at the Inn!

Coming soon, the St. Joseph’s Inn by the Servants of the Father of Mercy! The first time in 2000 years that St. Joseph and the Holy Family will receive an inn. Also, the first time in 2000 years of Church history that a chapel and church space is named after God the Father of Mercy!

Monday, April 9, 2018

Our Dear Homeless Brothers Hard at Work

Since about sunset today, our dear homeless brothers Nick and Cody are playfully at work watering the prayer garden and washing down the driveway late into the evening hours at Servants of the Father of Mercy homeless supplies warehouse and chapel..

Their dinner included homemade Italian lasagna, fresh made ham salad sandwiches stacked high with Romaine lettuce, crunchy honey crisp apples and refreshing cold soda waters lightly flavored with fruit juice!

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Spring Retreat!

ANNUAL YOUTH & FAMILY RETREAT

SERVANTS OF THE FATHER OF MERCY

FREE BY DONATION

MAY 25 - 27, 2018

RESERVE

Reserve Now to Attend in the Comments Below!
A Three-Day Retreat at the Siena Prayer Center, 1931 Poli Street, Ventura, CA 93001 . . .

OVERNIGHT

Overnight accommodations available for out of towners!

DAY PASS

Includes all meals, snacks and retreat!

GUEST SPEAKER

Monsignor Liam Kidney returns this year as our retreat's spiritual guide. Join him and us for a lifetime of spiritual wealth and inspiration!

DIRECTIONS

Take the 101 to Ventura, CA. Exit Seaward Ave. in downtown Ventura. Go east 4 stop lights. Take a left on Main Street. The next block to the right is Santa Cruz, (just past Mai’s Café). Go right on Santa Cruz Street. The street dead ends, drive straight ahead, 1931 Poli St. Enter the parking lot and drive to the right, circle back behind the buildings. Park in the back, Siena House of Prayer is on your left.

AMTRAK

Or arrive by Amtrak, just minutes away!

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Easter Song

May the peace and joy of Christ's poverty that was born in a barn and left Him homeless in a borrowed and empty tomb be yours as you watch our inspirational movie-short "Easter Song" at https://youtu.be/5FcAGino8gU

In His emptiness and homelessness, God highly exalted Him and bestowed upon Him the name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow in heaven and on earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord!

Donate to our 80,000 + homeless family alms of compassion at www.ServantsoftheFather.org. Thank you and may God bless you! Bro. Joseph +

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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