Lenten Week of Service

As part of the Parish Implementation Plan, the Parish is hosting a Lenten Week of Service. On Ash Wednesday, you can affix a ribbon to the Lenten Cross symbolizing your service commitment. Activities include food for the hungry, outreach to the unhoused, a Dorothy Day Pilgrimage, a Poverty Simulation, a panel discussion on the trip to the southern border, and more.

3/5 ASH WEDNESDAY
LENTEN CROSS RIBBONS
Church Narthex

3/7 FRIDAY
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
IFTAR DINNER
Wallace Hall
Set up/serve at the Iftar dinner organized by the Interfaith Ministry.
Registration required. Email at [email protected]. 

3/8 SATURDAY
POVERTY SIMULATION
10 AM-12 PM Wallace Hall
A Poverty Simulation is an interactive exercise that helps people understand the day-to-day turmoil people living in poverty experience.
Registration required. Email at [email protected]. 

CITY RELIEF
10:15 AM-1:15 PM, South Bronx
City Relief mobile outreach offers persons experiencing poverty and homelessness hot meals, supplies, and connections to resources. Volunteering here is essential to helping our fellow New Yorkers. An ISJ member will lead each team. South Bronx on 3/8 10:30 AM-1:30 PM* and Lower East Side on 3/13 10:30 AM-1:30 PM*

3/9 SUNDAY
SVdP BLOOD DRIVE
9 AM-3 PM McKinnon Hall
Last year the St. Ignatius Loyola community donated 107 pints of blood at our drives and saved 321 lives last year! Please join us and continue to save lives.

WE ARE ALL PLASTIC PEOPLE NOW
1 PM-3 PM Wallace Hall
Laudato Si’ ministry offers a film and discussion

DOROTHY DAY PILGRIMAGE
2 PM-5 PM Union Square
Walk in the steps of Dorothy Day. The tour begins at Union Square, the birthplace of the Catholic Worker movement. Learn about Dorothy Day’s radical devotion to Christ’s teaching. A Dorothy Day Guild member leads the tour. An ISJ member will host the team. Registration required. Email at [email protected].

3/10 MONDAY
GOD’S LOVE WE DELIVER
4 PM-7 PM, 166 Avenue of the Americas
This is a kitchen that cooks and delivers over 17,000 medically tailored meals each weekday thanks to the help of their volunteers, who work in the kitchen and package meals. A Parish Council member will lead the team. Registration required. Email at [email protected]. 

3/11 TUESDAY
ROSARY 
All Day Private Prayer

BREAD FOR THE WORLD
Commit to signing Bread for the World’s 2025 “Offering of Letters campaign.” SIL will hold it after all Masses in the coming months. Your signature to our legislators will help support domestic and international nutrition programs that offer a hand-up to families and a brighter future for children.

3/12 WEDNESDAY
NY COMMON PANTRY
9 AM-1 PM & 12 PM-4 PM, 109th Street
NYCP works to reduce hunger and food insecurity by distributing fresh food pantry packages. ISJ reserved spaces for you to pack groceries in East Harlem. Registration required. Email at [email protected]. 

ORTHODOX LENT DISCUSSION
6 PM – 337 East 74th Street
Join Interfaith Ministry members at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Trinity Cathedral for liturgy, a light Lenten dinner, and a discussion on death and resurrection in the Orthodox tradition. Registration required. Email at [email protected]. 

3/13 THURSDAY
CITY RELIEF
10:45 AM-1:15 PM
Lower East Side
City Relief mobile outreach offers persons experiencing poverty and homelessness hot meals, supplies, and connections to resources. Volunteering here is essential to helping our fellow New Yorkers. An ISJ member will lead each team. Registration required. Email at [email protected]. 

SILS GRAMMAR SCHOOL & SVdP FOOD DRIVE
All day School & Parish House
Collect canned foods for Church of the Ascension parishioners in East Harlem.

 3/14 FRIDAY
ABSTAIN FROM ANGRY ACTS FOR 12 HOURS

3/15 SATURDAY
PANEL DISCUSSION ON VISIT TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER and
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
10 AM-12 PM Wallace Hall
Pray Stations of the Cross for Migrants and then hear about our recent trip to the Southern Border. Every year we learn more about this complicated issue and what we can do to help.

SVdP HOMELESS OUTREACH 
2 PM-4 PM Wallace Hall
Our Homeless Outreach is an opportunity for meaningful encounters with our unhoused neighbors. We gather in Wallace Hall to assemble bags that include a sandwich, water, fruit, and other snacks and then go out in teams of 2 or more to various neighborhoods to introduce ourselves to the homeless and offer them lunch. The goal of this outreach is to make a connection with unhoused people, to make eye contact, and to let them know we see them. Registration required. Email at [email protected]. 

3/16 SUNDAY
HOMELESSNESS AWARENESS FOR KIDS
Discussion & pack hygiene kits
12 PM-1 PM Wallace Hall Stage
City Relief will give a short presentation on what it means to be homeless, and then the children will pack hygiene bags and include a short handwritten note. The event is organized by ISJ, Family Ministry, and the Girl Scouts.