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When families visit the food pantry at Holy Family Church in Dale City, they come away with “a shopping cart full of food, including high-value kinds of things like meat, milk and produce,” as well as canned goods, worth about $153 per visit, said George “Digger” Smith, a volunteer who coordinates operations at the pantry.
It’s another morning in forever-COVID-19 world, and I am trying to call the family from all corners of the house and yard to morning prayer. We’ve all been up for a few hours, and the washing machine upstairs just entered spin cycle, adding a pleasant, audible sense of momentum to the morning. The moment is right.
Fifteen years after Richard Louv’s bestseller “The Last Child in the Woods” was published, it is more relevant than ever. I’m fascinated by his insights on the “nature-deficit disorder” ailing kids.
We are weary. We are discouraged. We are looking for the light at the end of the tunnel, almost certain that, in the context of 2020, when we see it, it will be an oncoming train. Hope wanes. And when hope wanes, faith falters and love struggles against indifference. Did I mention yet that we are on the brink of election season? We’re in a world of hurt, and we need to shore ourselves up for the storm set to crash upon an already battered, badly eroded beach.
The world seems a little different of late. Fear, anxiety and anger are growing in the hearts of men, women and children. Fear of losing a job, not being able to provide for the family, paying the bills and ultimately fear of death. Before COVID-19, how often did one contemplate the thought of dying?
A Mass for Mental Health Workers will be celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More, 3901 Cathedral Lane, Arlington, Aug. 22, at 9 a.m.
The Knights of Columbus Our Lady of the Rosary Council 12982 donated $11,500 to the House of Mercy Food Bank in Manassas last month, the largest donation the council has made since its existence. The funds will go toward purchasing commercial grade, walk-in refrigeration for the food pantry, which has seen a growing need since the pandemic began and now feeds more than 350 families monthly. The Knights raised the majority of the funds by selling Christmas trees last December.
span style="font-size: 12px;">Nick Kenna may be a little biased, but he thinks lobsters have a certain appeal, an “it” factor about them. Lobster is what you serve on Valentine’s Day or when out-of-town relatives visit or on Christmas Eve. “If you say, ‘We’re serving lobster,’ that’s always impressive,” he said. “That’s not an ordinary dinner.” /span>
Marthe Tarishi was so excited to become a citizen. After eight years in the United States, the 76-year-old Congolese woman had submitted all the paperwork and passed the citizenship interview and test. But then the pandemic hit, and the official ceremony had to be postponed. After months of waiting, Tarishi, a parishioner of Queen of Apostles Church in Alexandria, became a U.S. citizen July 23.
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Taking the first step
Have you ever tried to walk on water? It’s slightly more difficult than our imagination lets on. Of course, there’s the obvious problem of not sinking. But let’s suppose you had that covered, by pontoon shoes or the grace of God. You’d still have to work out the problems of balance and standing up straight. The water, after all, is not a level surface: It comes in waves and is likely to be a bit squishy under your feet. At any moment your level ground may become a hill, a slope, a peak, and then rolls past, leaving you on the other side.