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Louisville Dedicates its “Wake Up the World House”

Habitat for Humanity, Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville Dedicates its “Wake Up the World House”

After nearly four months of labor by members of 24 religious communities in the Archdiocese of Louisville, partnering with Habitat for Humanity, the building of a “Wake Up the World” house is complete. A mother and her eight children were “all smiles and gleeful in their gratitude” as the dedication of their new house took place on Saturday, September 12, 2015. Read more on the CMSM Website.

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The house is ready to welcome its new family!

 

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Everyone gathered in prayer and thanksgiving for a job well done, and the opportunity to offer a family a new start.

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Habitat for Humanity, Louisville, Kentucky

Members of 24 different religious communities in the Archdiocese of Louisville are collaborating on a “very significant service project” in celebration of the Year of Consecrated Life.  Over the coming months, the religious communities and their “families” will help build a house, named the Pope Francis House, in Louisville with Habitat for Humanity — some by finances, some by “sweat”, some by providing meals and many by their prayer.  Read more about this ambitious project on the Year of Consecrated Life website.

The Wake Up the World Local Leader Team: Sr. Janet Marie Peterworth, OSU; Fr. John Schork, CP; Sr. Teresa Gunter, OSB; and Sr. Nancy Gerth, SCN, in front of the construction site of the Pope Francis House.
The Wake Up the World Local Leader Team:
Sr. Janet Marie Peterworth, OSU; Fr. John Schork, CP; Sr. Teresa Gunter, OSB; and Sr. Nancy Gerth, SCN,
in front of the construction site of
the Pope Francis House.
Volunteers raise the roof at the Pope Francis House.
Volunteers raise the roof at the Pope Francis House.
Ash Wednesday

On March 2, the Church celebrates Ash Wednesday. 

Most of us learned early in our Catholic lives that Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent, and that is a time of special sacrifice in preparation for the Easter celebration of Jesus’ Resurrection.

Dear brothers and sisters, every moment of our lives is a time for believing, hoping and loving…. These words of Pope Francis, taken from his Lenten Message of last year, 2021, and echoing the virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity, can still inspire our answer to the question: “What am I giving up for Lent?” 

We can draw our Lenten sacrifices out of our daily life: 

Share our faith in God’s presence by sharing in prayer with our family or with those in our parish community.
Share our hope in God’s promises by encouraging positive and respectful dialogue in our family circle and among our friends. 
Share the charity God has bestowed on us in the Passion of Jesus, with those whose sufferings are ignored or aggravated.

Let us pray for one another as we enter the season of Lent. Our Passionist “motto” can be our daily prayer during Lent, “May the Passion of Jesus Christ be always in our hearts.”