On All Saints Day we had a visit from 2
lovely volunteers from the Agency of Saint Vincent De Paul. They did a
short application to helps us this month with rent. We are waiting for
other applications to do their thing; Food Stamps, Unemployment etc.

So this is a reminder it can happen to anyone, and that there are
agencies that might be able to help with rent. They also provide
emergency food boxes, if they do have the funds can help with utilities.
So no matter what time of the year please remember to contribute to agencies to help your neighbors out through difficult times.
The emergency food box we received was chocked full, thank God and
also had things like toilet paper, kleenex tissues, soap and shampoo,
toothpaste. A good reminder too, if your local store or churches accept
donations that Food Stamps can not be used to buy toiletries and paper
products for the bath.
 

All Saints' DayRoman Catholic ChurchSolemnity of All Saints and also called All HallowsHallowmas^[1]), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnityWestern Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honor of all the saints, known and unknown.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints

To St. Vincent de Paul: Patron of Charitable Workers

 
Dear Saint Vincent de Paul the mere mention of your name suggests a litany of your virtues:
humility, zeal, mercy, self-sacrifice.  It also recalls your many
foundations:
Works of Mercy, Congregations, Societies.
And the Church gratefully remembers your promotion of the priesthood.
Inspire all Charitable Workers, especially those who minister to the
poor -both the spiritually and materially poor.
Amen
St. Vincent was born of poor parents in
the village of Pouy in Gascony, France, about 1580. He enjoyed his first
schooling under the Franciscan Fathers at Acqs. Such had been his
progress in four years that a gentleman chose him as subpreceptor to his
children, and he was thus enabled to continue his studies without being
a burden to his parents. In 1596, he went to the University of Toulouse
for theological studies, and there he was ordained priest in 1600.
In 1605, on a voyage by sea from Marseilles to Narbonne, he fell into
the hands of African pirates and was carried as a slave to Tunis. His
captivity lasted about two years, until Divine Providence enabled him to
effect his escape. After a brief visit to Rome he returned to France,
where he became preceptor in the family of Emmanuel de Gondy, Count of
Goigny, and General of the galleys of France. In 1617, he began to
preach missions, and in 1625, he lay the foundations of a congregation
which afterward became the Congregation of the Mission or Lazarists, so
named on account of the Priory of St. Lazarus, which the Fathers began to
occupy in 1633.
It would be impossible to enumerate all the works of this servant of
God. Charity was his predominant virtue. It extended to all classes of
persons, from forsaken childhood to old age. The Sisters of Charity also
owe the foundation of their congregation to St. Vincent. In the midst
of the most distracting occupations his soul was always intimately
united with God. Though honored by the great ones of the world, he
remained deeply rooted in humility. The Apostle of Charity, the immortal
Vincent de Paul, breathed his last in Paris at the age of eighty. His
feast day is September 27th. He is the patron of charitable societies.