Bringing Justice to the Downtrodden
Holy Family Catholic Church is reaching a diverse community with a wide range of needs and issues.
One of the first things you notice upon entering Holy Family Catholic Church off Ferndale Road is a large bin for food donations to supply the parish’s food pantry. All throughout the large building are signs, posters, brochures, or people advocating caring for those in need—the elderly, shut-in, homeless, sick, hungry, and defenseless. During mass, children bring food for the hungry and give it to be blessed during the offering time. The food pantry alone feeds an average of 10 to 15 people per day, not including walk-ins who “we just can’t say no to,” said Maureen Ruongrat, who works at the pantry. You can’t talk with the Reverend Gerry Creedon very long before the conversation leads to social justice and righting the world’s wrongs—…
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