Each year, through our Collaborative Lenten Gift, we reach out as a community to one particular place of suffering, amid so many in the world.
This year, we will open our eyes and hearts to the plight of those suffering on the streets of Boston. We will reach out through our support of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), which provides the highest quality health care services possible to some of the most vulnerable members of our community – Boston’s homeless individuals and families of all ages. Throughout Lent, in the bulletin, via email, on our website and social media, we will share this story with you.
A Special Collection will be taken up at all Masses on the weekend of April 2-3.
If you prefer, you may donate online here at any time during the Lenten season, or by sending a check to your parish office (please note 2022 Lenten Gift in the memo.) Thank you very much.
Our gift will allow each of us to share in easing the suffering
and to answer Lent’s clarion call to love extravagantly.
TELLING THE STORY
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Each year, through our Collaborative Lenten Gift, we reach out as a community to one particular place of suffering, amid so many in the world. This year, we will open our eyes and hearts to the plight of those suffering on the streets of Boston. We will reach out through our support of the
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), which provides the highest quality health care services possible to some of the most vulnerable members of our community – Boston’s homeless individuals and families of all ages. A well-known and well regarded organization, they care for an ...
Those of you who have been reading the Bulletin for the past two weeks have been introduced to the
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), the recipient of our Collaborative's 2022 Lenten Gift. As you can imagine, there is no shortage of worthy causes, both domestic and international, from which to choose. Our Service Commission decided that this year we would direct our attention to a local problem: the homeless and the quality of healthcare that they receive. The mission of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program is to ensure unconditionally equitable and dignified access to ...
In last week’s bulletin we learned about the
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP), the recipient of this year’s Collaborative Lenten Gift. We learned of its 37-year history including about its founders, its organization structure, its breadth in illnesses treated, and its mission to serve all aspects of the wellbeing of the homeless in Boston. This week, let’s turn to the individual stories of those who live in the shadows and whom the BHCHP seeks to help and share in God’s grace. There are many paths to homelessness including mental health, discrimination, addiction, and violence. However, many of ...
The St. John-St. Paul Collaborative Service Commission has chosen the
Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) as the beneficiary of our 2022 Collaborative Lenten Gift. We would like to tell you a little bit about this inspiring organization. In the United States of America there are almost 600 thousand people estimated to be without a home. In Massachusetts in 2020 the number was estimated at almost 18,000 people. The reasons are multiple – most often poverty combined with another risk factor such as mental illness, illiteracy, substance use, violence, disability. In July 1985, a small group of 7 professionals ...
