Letter for Sacrifice by Fr. Sarez
I invite you to make your Lenten Season more meaningful this year.
Just by doing small sacrifices each day during Lent, you can feed and give homes to the poor.
The money you save by sacrificing one can of soft drink for a day can buy a poor family 2 cans of sardines for their meal. A cup of signature coffee can buy a family 3 kilos of rice that may feed them for 3 days. If 40 people can give up a fast-food meal for one day, it can buy a family 1 square meter of land for a house they have been praying to have. And if 1000 people can do this for just one day, they can give a house to a homeless family.
My dear parishioners, personal sacrifice is the most concrete way to experience Lent and be united with Christ’s suffering. I don’t ask for big sacrifices, only those that you are willing to do wholeheartedly, to share in the passion of Christ. And as we share in Christ’s pain, we will also experience the joy of His resurrection as we see how our small sacrifices can touch and transform the lives of the poor.
To help you get started here’s an example of how you can plan a week:
| Sun | Mon | Tues | Wed | Thurs | Fri | Sat |
| Skip dinner out = P300 | Skip dessert = P 50 |
Skip coffee = P100 | Take MRT vs. taxi = P150 | Skip cola = P25 | Skip cell phone load = P20 | Skip Movie = P180 |
You can use the calendar at the back to record your personal sacrifices each day. Add up your savings at the end of 45 days and enclose your offering in the attached envelope. You can bring your offering to the Holy Mass at the Sta. Maria Della Strada Parish on Holy Thursday or Easter Sunday. You can also drop them at the Parish Office from Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday.*
Thank you for your personal sacrifice. However small it is, it will touch and improve the lives of others. May God bless you!
Fr. Manny Sarez
SMDS Parish Priest
*Proceeds will go to the Pabahay ng Diocese Program for the workers of the Parish/Diocese of Cubao.
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“This, rather, is the fasting I wish: releasing those bound unjustly…setting free the oppressed, breaking every yoke; sharing your bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless; clothing the naked when you see them, and not turning your back on your own.” - Isaiah 58: 6-7
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