With how hot this summer has been, it’s hard to think about the cool evenings that are starting to occur. We need blankets and warm clothes to give away.
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There were so many people there on the nights that the underwear, socks and toiletries were distributed that I was not even aware of it happening. I was busy serving soup. This means that it went smoothly and there was plenty to go around. Thank you U Penn OCF and those who . . . → Read More: Underwear Update We are finally making some progress on the barn. Saturday, August 25, Tim Palmer, Jerry Burke and Damien Kovalenko, each helped for a few hours and we took out the floor boards, electrical wiring and joists for a third of the second floor. It was just the leg up I needed. Less than three weeks later . . . → Read More: Barn Update On the eve of the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos I needed some blank CDs. I knew I had a spool of them, but hadn’t seen them since we moved a year ago last May. I went up the attic steps and right in front of me was the box that had eluded me . . . → Read More: Hard Drive Crash Update Yesterday was the feast of the Elevation of the Cross. In the homily, father called our attention to when Jesus was on the Cross, he entrusted the care of his Mother to John, his beloved disciple. That got me thinking. Mary was a widow and her only child was dying. In that society, as it would in . . . → Read More: The Mother of God, Homeless? We need more sandwiches Thursday nights. The population on the streets in center city Philadelphia has gone up. So far, we have been able to give everyone who shows up something to eat each night, but we haven’t been able to give everyone something to take away for later. Here are the guidelines for making sandwiches: Don’t use . . . → Read More: Sandwiches Needed It bothers us that we use styrofoam cups and plastic spoons to serve the soup and drinks on the street. Styrofoam is made from a non-renewable resource and is not biodegradable or recyclable. It is cheap, however, so that is what we use. Now there are alternatives that are compostable; cups made from sugar cane fiber or . . . → Read More: Styrofoam is Forever. The first week in August, St. Philip Orthodox Church, Souderton, PA, VCS made power packs and fruit breads for us to distribute to the poor. They also gathered toiletries and some spare change. Power packs are paper lunch bags with goodies for later, like cracker packs, boxes of raisins, granola bars & box drinks. The children personalized . . . → Read More: Vacation Church School St. Philip’s annual drive for donations of turkeys, etc., is coming round again. TKJ is just one recipient of this wonderful program. It is mid-September and we still have enough turkeys in our freezer to carry us until this year’s turkey drive starts. The people on the street really appreciate this. We are able to serve a . . . → Read More: Turkeys ‘R’ Us For if you change from inhumanity to almsgiving, you have stretched forth the hand that was withered. If you withdraw from theaters and go to church, you have cured the lame foot. If you draw back your eyes from a harlot, you have opened them when they were blind. These are the . . . → Read More: St. John Chrysostom |
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