Integrate CRS’ Operation Rice Bowl into your parish’s Lenten activities:
Use resources from the Coordinator’s Guide to help you plan and implement CRS’ Operation Rice Bowl in your parish’s liturgies and gatherings.
Learn how to organize CRS’ Operation Rice Bowl in your faith community.
Provide Homily Notes to your parish homilist to integrate messages of global solidarity into your Liturgy.
Use the Bulletin Announcements and Bulletin Insert in parish communications.
Use the Pulpit Announcement to invite parishioners to participate in CRS Operation Rice Bowl.
Add a prayer intention from CRS’ Operation Rice Bowl to remember our global family during the Prayer of the Faithful.
Pray CRS’ Operation Rice Bowl Stations of the Cross and bring an international dimension to this traditional Lenten observance.
If your parish would like to provide a donation envelope to facilitate the collection of CRS’ Operation Rice Bowl contributions, we invite you to provide the template for a Double-sided Envelope or Single-sided Envelope to your collection envelope vendor. Our Sunday Visitor can print the envelope for your parish. For information on pricing and to order envelopes please email Our Sunday Visitor.
Encourage your parish to pray, learn and share through Catholics Confront Global Poverty.
Download these materials in Spanish.
Help promote Operation Rice Bowl. 