Parishes
Resources for parishes are designed to help you integrate Operation Rice Bowl into your faith community’s Lenten celebration. Use activity suggestions, homily notes, bulletin announcements and interactive resources to enrich your community’s Lenten experience.
Downloadable Materials
The Community and Parish Guide includes suggestions and resources to integrate Operation Rice Bowl into your parish gatherings and services.
| Community and Parish Guide | English | Spanish | ||
| How to Organize Operation Rice Bowl | English | Spanish | ||
| Bulletin Announcements | English | Spanish | ||
| Bulletin Insert | English | Spanish | ||
| Prayer Intentions | English | Spanish | ||
| Homily Notes | English | Spanish |
The Lenten Calendar contains personal stories from beneficiaries of Catholic Relief Services’ overseas programs, Lenten reflections and activities, and recipes of simple meat-less meals from different countries.
| Lenten Calendar | English | Spanish |
The Educator’s Guide is designed to help Catholic school teachers, catechists, and youth ministers integrate issues of justice and poverty into their Lenten curriculum.
| Educator’s Guide | English | Spanish | ||
| Country Stories | English | Spanish | ||
| Country Stories for Younger Students | English | Spanish | ||
| Bonus Ethiopia Lesson Plans, Grades 1-12 | English | Spanish | ||
| Bonus High School Resources | English | Spanish |
Donation Envelope
If your parish would like to provide a donation envelope to facilitate the collection of Operation Rice Bowl contributions, we invite you to provide this template to your collection envelope vendor. You may use this template as the artwork for an ORB donation envelope.
Double-sided Envelope
Single-sided Envelope
Our Sunday Visitor can print the envelope for your parish. For information on pricing and to order envelopes please email Our Sunday Visitor.
Activities
| Activity Suggestions | English | Spanish | ||
| Prayer Service | English | Spanish | ||
| Stations of the Cross | English | Spanish | ||
| Placemat | English | Spanish | ||
| World Awareness Quiz | English | Spanish | ||
| Seven Sorrows of Mary | Spanish |
Face the Fast!
Invite your parish’s youth minister to hold a Food Fast this Lent. Food Fast is Catholic Relief Services’ 24-hour awareness program for Catholic youth. Focusing on global poverty and hunger, Food Fast offers a journey of solidarity with our brothers and sisters overseas, as a way of living out our Catholic faith. Learn more at foodfast.org.
Invite a Global Fellow to visit your parish.
Global Fellows are priests, deacons and seminarians who have visited CRS programs around the world and who can share their stories and reflections on global solidarity in parishes in the U.S. Contact Mikaele Sansone at CRS: msansone@crs.org of 410-951-7366 to coordinate scheduling and logistics.
