The Mass of the Holy Spirit is a tradition among Jesuit academic institutions dating to 1548 in which the community gathers to thank God for the gifts of creation and salvation and to seek the guidance and wisdom of the Holy Spirit in the coming year.
Donation made to our local chapter of Saint Vincent de Paul serves our neighbors here in the Wedgwood community. There is no overhead as it is operated all by the volunteers here at OLL. Every dollars goes to people in need in our community. With the eviction moratorium ending September 30th, we need to help our neighbors more than ever. SVDP hopes to help before landlords begin evictions. From January 1, 2021, $138,000 in rent/utility has been requested but SVDP has only been able to give $24,177. We need your help filling this gap.
Household cleaning supplies and personal hygiene items are not covered by existing government assistance. When you are out doing your normal shopping think about purchasing a few extra for your neighbors.
Thank you to all that give your time and love to our community:
Interested in joining the members of OLL's local chapter serving our neighbors, please contact Marci Tittle.
How We Can Help!
At the Masses Sept. 25th & 26th, a member of SVDP will be speaking about the mission of our local chapter. Their focus has been collecting cash donations in anticipation of the eviction moratorium being lifted. Cash donations can be made via:
Online giving (choose "GIVE NOW" for St. Vincent De Paul)
Collection basket located in the back of the church
Sent/dropped off at the parish office
Non-perishable and household items can be left in the SVDP box in Jubilee Hall or brought to the parish office.
St. Vincent de Paul was born to a poor peasant family in the French village of Pouy on April 24, 1581. He spent his life preaching missions to and providing relief to the poor. He even established hospitals for them. This work became his passion. He later extended his concern and ministry to convicts. The need to evangelize and assist these souls was so great and the demands beyond his own ability to meet that he founded the Ladies of Charity, a lay institute of woman, to help, as well as a religious institute of priests - the Congregation of Priests of the Mission, commonly referred to now as the Vincentians. He was eighty years old when he died in Paris on September 27, 1660. He had "become the symbol of the successful reform of the French Church". St. Vincent is sometimes referred to as "The Apostle of Charity" and "The Father of the Poor".
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