Charities to benefit from VASJ's Lenten Mission Collection

Love changes everything.

This is theme students in Villa Angela-St. Joseph High School’s Peer Ministry group selected for the annual Lenten Mission Collection.

Each year, VASJ students, faculty and staff hold a Lenten Mission Collection in order to put into practice the call for almsgiving as a preparation for Holy Week and Easter.

“Lent is a time for prayer, fasting, and almsgivng,” says VASJ’s Campus Minister Jill Latkovich. “But even more it is a time for gratitude for all that we have received -- in particular Jesus Christ.”

VASJ Peer Ministers Shea Smith '15, Cynthia Negrete '16,
Chelsea Curtis '16 and Carlie Beard '16, display some of the soap collected
for Migration and Refugee Services during the Lenten Mission Collection. 

Several agencies were selected by VASJ’s Peer Ministers to receive support from the Lenten Mission Collection – organizations with missions and values driven by issues of social justice that align with those of VASJ.

VASJ’s Lenten Mission Collection raised nearly $2,500 to benefit Migration and Refugee Services (a department of Cleveland Catholic Charities), Womankind (a maternal and prenatal care service center) and Our Lady of Nazareth, a Marianist school in Nairobi, Kenya, as well as collecting winter items for Homeless Not Helpless.

As a result of the money raised, VASJ will be sponsoring six children to attend Our Lady of Nazareth, for the upcoming school year.

Love changes everything and the VASJ community came together, once again, to show those less fortunate a lot of love.