Passionate Approach to Lent Helps Feed the Hungry
Labels Are For Jars Releases Thought-Provoking Lent Guide
Lawrence, MA (PRWEB) February 5, 2005 -- Labels Are For Jars, the cutting-edge effort to serve some of the neediest families in Massachusetts, has released a 2005 Lent Guide as a vehicle to help feed the hungry. The Lent Guide combines insightful commentary and questions for meditation with a creative how-to solution for directing Lenten energy toward feeding the hungry.
While it is easy for Lent to be a time for making personal choices like abstaining from chocolate or smoking, Lent is not meant to be a season of solitary sacrifice. Lent is a time during which Christians traditionally reflect on how they might increase their outreach to those in need. Labels Are For Jars Lent Guide offers daily ideas, insights, and options for directly helping to feed the hungry.
The response to Labels has been tremendously positive. Its amazing to see how eager people are to help feed our hungry brothers and sisters," explains Father Paul B. OBrien, chairman of the Labels Are For Jars central committee and pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Lawrence.
In Lawrence today, thousands of people dont have the resources to adequately feed themselves. Our almsgiving through Labels this Lent gives us the opportunity to sacrifice some of our resources to directly change the world for our hungry brothers and sisters."
Three disciplines are traditionally embraced during Lent: prayer, almsgiving, and fasting. None of these disciplines is an end in itself. Rather, each serves the purpose of putting material things in proper perspective and opening us more to the love, mercy, and peace of God. Labels Lent Guide offers a dynamic way of connecting spiritually with God and connecting practically with families who do not have enough food to eat.
All who are interested in considering the Labels Guide for personal use during Lent may freely download it from www.labelsareforjars.org. Click the Lent Guide" link at the bottom of the home page.
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