Lenten Program of Sacrifice - 2018

Thanks for your generosity.

We are pleased to report that our parish is able to send Fr. Gene Savaramithu $16,536, the result of the Lenten sacrificial offerings made through the season of Lent.

These funds will be used to help the vocational programs and ongoing sanitation and building initiatives in Sacred Heart Parish where Fr. Gene is pastor.

Dear friends,

        Loving greetings from Fr. Gene.

        It has been a great joy being here once again at OLS-St. Anthony. I take this chance to extend my sincere gratitude to thank Msgr. Tom, Fr Joseph, the parish staff, and the entire community of Our Lady of Sorrows-St. Anthony for your generosity and kindness during my stay here and for my missionary activities in and around the United States and Canada, and my ministry at Sacred Heart Parish in India for the past four years. It’s truly unbelievable and a perfect example what each of us can accomplish through our small and great ways together. I am overwhelmed again as always and deeply touched by your generous contribution this year. Through your sacrificial Lenten Labor of Love sharing we are able to accomplish three deserving projects (20 more toilets, 33 sewing machines, 7 houses) and provide support for deserving families and women in India. We have also extended our help to 13 leprosy families for their medication and the education of their children. St. Joseph Center continues to be a blessing and is in full use for spiritual, pastoral, and social activities throughout the year.

        From the bottom of my heart, along with the voice of my parish family in India, I would like to extend my gratitude and love for your missionary zeal and love for the poor.

        What a witness to our faith as Christ followers heeding the call of “feed the poor.” My faith is enriched and renewed each time by your kind and generous ways.

        I promise my prayers for all of you and please keep me in yours. Good bye now and looking forward to seeing you according to God’s plan. God bless you and your family.

With much love and prayers,

Fr. Gene

 

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Our annual Lenten “work of charity” has always enjoyed the extraordinary support of our parishioners. Over the years our parish has supported projects in Kasana –Laweero (Africa), the Mt. Carmel Guild (Trenton) and India. In a message to Msgr. Gervasio, Fr. Eugene “Gene” Savarimuthu has appealed to us to assist the needs of his parish community “one last time.” He hopes, with our help, to meet the following needs:
 

• Additional Sanitary Facilities (Toilets)
• Sewing Machines for newly trained seamstresses
• Foundational Housing for Widows and Widowers

Once again, donation “cans” will be placed at the doors of our churches throughout the season of Lent. Any checks, should be made payable to “Our Lady of Sorrows-St. Anthony.”