SEATTLE – Giving trees, holiday meal programs and overnight shelters are seeing some changes because of COVID-19 this Advent at parishes around the Archdiocese of Seattle.
In Catholic elementary school, I often heard a joke: “If you don’t know the answer on a test, just write ‘Jesus,’ because Jesus is always the answer.” At 22, that joke seems truer and truer. Jesus really is the answer to every question, but not quite in the way my classmates meant.
La Sociedad de San Vicente de Paúl alimenta a los hambrientos, asiste con el alquiler y ayuda a inmigrantes
Society of St. Vincent de Paul feeds the hungry, pays the rent, aids immigrants
Aspiren a los bienes de arriba (Colosenses 3,1)
Cada lunes por la noche, la Liturgia de las Horas (en inglés) concluye con una oración que nunca deja de llamar mi atención: “Señor, concede a nuestros cuerpos un sueño tranquilo y que el trabajo que hemos hecho este día dé fruto en la vida eterna”.
Each Monday night, the Liturgy of the Hours ends with a prayer that never fails to catch my attention: “Lord, give our bodies restful sleep and let the work we have done today bear fruit in eternal life.”