Orlando in the pits of volunteer survey

Darryl E. Owens
Sentinel Staff Writer
July 27, 2008
 
 
Everybody knows that charity begins at home.
Too bad Orlando proves the old saw, according to a new national survey on volunteerism. The report suggests many residents of the City Beautiful prefer not to get out and pitch in, but rather hole up in home sweet home.
Overall, Florida finished 49th [...]

In this week’s All Souls bulletin … SVDP News

 
http://www.catholicweb.com/bulletins/144/Jul-27-2008.pdf
 
ST. VINCENT DEPAUL NEWS
This Week’s Vincentian Message: In the
Gospel, we find the demand of daily Christian
living is to spend our life primarily searching for
the kingdom of God. Know that when you
give your gift to the Society of St. Vincent
de Paul to help the poor, you have indeed found the
kingdom of God.
 
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This Week’s Vincentian Reflection – Seventeeth Sunday in Ordinary Time

                  SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
July 27, 2008
 
Gospel: (Matthew 13: 44-52)
 
Jesus said to his disciples: “The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,
which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and
buys that field.  Again, the kingdom of heaven is [...]

Interesting St. Vincent de Paul fact …

http://ctrcc.com/index.html
from a Catholic Church in Houston …
The first comes this weekend with the annual St. Vincent de Paul Black Bag collection. You will remember this collection because, as the name states, it is the only second collection we take up during the year using the black bags. The reason for the use of the bags [...]

SVDP Meeting is today …

Monday night at 715 at the White House, across from the Historic Chapel.

Ignorance costs Sanford chance to help homeless

George Diaz
COMMENTARY
July 18, 2008
Perception is a tricky devil.
We think, therefore it must be.
Play along if you will.
Homeless=Bum=Loser.
That’s the vision coming from the hallowed grounds of Sanford, where riffraff aren’t welcome. A help-the-homeless event got moved after complaints from business interests.
They obviously don’t want the stink to rub off on their Armani suits.
“Well, here we go [...]

SVDP Treasurer Dennis Roman comments on Health Care Center for the Homeless

 
(Top left: SVDP Treasurer Dennis Roman, Michael Cantillo, Development Director for Health Care Center for the Homeless and Jeanette Guzman, SVDP Board Member; top right: Doreen and Dennis; lower left: Dennis, Jeanette and Bakari Burns, CEO Health Care Center for the Homeless; lower right: Doreen, Bakari and Jeanette)

Part of the SVDP Board (Doreen, Jeanette and I) toured [...]

SVDP’s corner in this week’s All Souls Bulletin

which you can see here: http://www.allsoulssanford.org/
This Week’s Vincentian Message – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Hearing today’s Gospel, we can trust that God knows our love and good deeds, and that he will mercifully gather us into his kingdom. This week, please say a special prayer each day for the poor and forgotten in our [...]

This Week’s Vincentian Reflection

SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
July 20, 2008
                                                           
Gospel: (Matthew 13: 24-30)
 
Jesus proposed another parable: “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who
sowed good seed in his field.  While everyone was asleep his enemy came and sowed
weeds all through the wheat, and then went off.  When the crop grew and bore [...]

Please register to be a Walker …

at the 1st Annual Friends of the Poor Walk on September 27 at Bishop Moore Catholic High School in Orlando.
Every dollar we raise stays with SVDP at All Souls. So, we need walkers and plenty of them. Share this Web site. Ask folks to walk with us and/or make donations. Please register:
http://www.svdpfriendsofthepoorwalk.org/index.htm