“We have to follow Jesus and he reminds us of our Christian duty to give a voice to those who are unheard and to help those who are most vulnerable … We can all be missionaries and help our world’s sick, hungry, thirsty and all needy people.” (St. Patrick School student’s Rice Bowl Reflection) This […]

In this Jubilee Year of Mercy, Catholic Relief Services is offering a mobile device app for its Lenten Rice Bowl program that focuses on hope. The CRS Rice Bowl app provides a daily prayer reflection, brief weekly videos telling “stories of hope” from countries around the world, recipes from these countries and a “calculator” to help compute your Lenten almsgiving.

This Lent, during the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis calls us to a deeper experience of God’s mercy. Throughout Hawaii, Catholics are responding to the U.S. bishops’ call to deepen our Lenten prayer, fasting and almsgiving through the Catholic Relief Services Rice Bowl project.