OFFICE FOR SOCIAL MINISTRY “CRS Rice Bowl is not just about collecting money in a cardboard box. It is literally and symbolically a box full of stories of hope, prayers and opportunities to help put our faith into action and to share our Lenten journey with each other, transforming all our lives.” (Bishop Larry Silva, […]
Rooted in hope
A Big Island breadfruit planting project is spotlighted in the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl campaign By Darlene J.M. Dela Cruz Hawaii Catholic Herald India. Zambia. El Salvador. Mexico. Ethiopia. Hawaii? In this year’s Lenten Rice Bowl campaign, Catholic Relief Services is shining the spotlight on a grassroots outreach project on the Big Island among […]
CRS Rice Bowl Letter: Bishop Silva — Lent a time of ‘encounter’
Dear Friends in Christ, Peace be with you! Lent is a time to deepen our encounter with God, who became fully vulnerable in Christ to redeem us. For 42 years, U.S. Bishops have called all to participate in the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Lenten Rice Bowl to encounter Christ with vulnerable persons around the world […]
Poor or rich, we need each other
An interview with Thomas Awiapo of Ghana, the CRS Global Solidarity Coordinator By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Thomas Awiapo’s conversation kept coming back to that “little snack,” as he fiddled with a little cardboard box, the well-known Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl. The CRS Global Solidarity Coordinator, who works in his home country of […]
Hawaii to be featured U.S. diocese in 2017 Rice Bowl
By Patrick Downes Hawaii Catholic Herald Micaela, a Chuukese migrant who has risen above a difficult existence on the Big Island, will be one of the faces of the 2017 Catholic Relief Service Rice Bowl project in the United States. Because of her work, and that of others on the island, the Diocese of […]
Isle schools raise $25,000 for CRS aid
By Deborah Manog Special to the Herald The nineteen Hawaii Catholic Schools that participated in the 2016 Catholic Relief Services Lenten Rice Bowl raised a whopping $25,000 for local and international aid programs created for the elimination of hunger and poverty. The donations from the 19 schools, about half the number of schools in the […]
Taking the Rice Bowl challenge
More than 300 students in Hawaii Catholic schools participated in the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl “App Challenge” this Lent, which aimed to connect their prayers, fasting and almsgiving in a tangible way to the poor and vulnerable around the world.
CRS’s Lenten program helps develop a spirituality of gratitude
“We need to strengthen the conviction that we are one single human family. There are no frontiers or barriers, political or social, behind which we can hide, still less is there room for the globalization of indifference.”
Letter | Bishop Larry Silva: Living as one global family
Dear Friends in Christ, As we focus on the family in our Diocesan Pastoral Plan, it is especially appropriate during this Holy Year of Mercy to come together as one global family, reflecting on how we can manifest God’s mercy in solidarity with the poor and vulnerable throughout the world.
Week after quake, trucks of aid begin reaching remote areas of Nepal
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Truckloads of relief material organized by church charities began moving across Nepal a week after the Himalayan nation was rocked by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake April 25. “I am glad that much-needed aid is finally beginning to reach remote areas,” Greg Auberry, Catholic Relief Services’ regional director for East and South Asia, told […]