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Water for Life: News & Photos

Water for Life Lenten Almsgiving Project 2025 with CrossCatholic. During the Lenten season we pray, fast, and give alms. Donate here! The Lenten Season is a time of sacrifice almsgiving and prayer, in preparation for our renewal. Participate in our parish …. Lenten Almsgiving Drive – for Lent 2025 – Donate Here!


PRE-LENT (Feb. 24 – March 4)

Lent is right around the corner. This year, our parish encourages you to join us and @CrossCatholic as we pray, fast and share a glass of clean water by sponsoring wells in sub-Saharan Africa. Your alms to the #WaterForLife campaign can save lives! CrossCatholic.org/Lent #Lent #WaterForLife #charity

girl drinking clean water


LENT WEEK 1 (March 5 – 9)

Meet Glory from Malawi! Our parish can bless girls like her this Lent by sponsoring @CrossCatholic village wells in sub-Saharan Africa. Clean water will help Glory stay in school and achieve her dream of becoming a teacher. Learn how your alms this Lent can change lives: CrossCatholic.org/Lent #Lent #WaterForLife #charity

Girl praying


LENT WEEK 2 (March 10 – 16)

Looking for family-friendly Lent activities? Our friends at @CrossCatholic have created a brand-new Lent activity guide filled with liturgically themed crafts, family discussions, prayers and a meat-free recipe. Get your free copy and learn about our parish’s Lenten almsgiving project to drill wells in Africa at CrossCatholic.org/Lent #Lent #WaterForLife #charity

St. Patrick quote with woman smiling


LENT WEEK 3 (March 17 – 23)

St. Patrick is beloved in Ireland — and also in the remote Diocese of Mzuzu, Malawi. Ellen’s village has clean water thanks to @CrossCatholic and her bishop, an Irishman who came to Malawi 40+ years ago as a priest from St. Patrick’s Society for the Foreign Missions. Our Lenten alms can sponsor village wells in the Mzuzu Diocese and across Africa: CrossCatholic.org/Lent #Lent #WaterForLife #StPatrick #charity

smiling girl with clean water cup


LENT WEEK 4 (March 24 – 30)

Excited to have clean water! Tiange used to fill buckets at a river. Now, her village has a community well. This Lent, your alms can help other girls like Tiange who pray for safe water. Join our Water for Life campaign with @CrossCatholic and help our parish build wells in Africa!  CrossCatholic.org/Lent  #Lent #WaterForLife

girl in her beautiful dress collecting water from creek


LENT WEEK 5 (March 31 – April 6)

“Do children in America also collect water from rivers and streams?” Patricia asked this heartbreaking question when @CrossCatholic visited her in Malawi. This Lent, help our parish give girls like Patricia a gift beyond their wildest dreams — the gift of a clean, safe village well. CrossCatholic.org/Lent #Lent #WaterForLife

Kenya village with their water tower project


LENT WEEK 6 (April 7 – 12)

There’s still time to join our parish this Lent to bring clean water to Africa! Your alms can help our friends at @CrossCatholic build a water system like this one in Kenya. We prayerfully ask you to consider joining us as we change lives this Lent. Learn more and give online here: CrossCatholic.org/Lent #Lent #WaterForLife #charity

happy woman with clean water standing next to new water pump


HOLY WEEK (April 13 – 19)

This Holy Week, let us unite with Christ and all those who thirst for his love, including women like Agnes in the Diocese of Karonga, Malawi. Let us be a blessing in this world to those who have endured thirst and diseases. Let our parish overflow with hope and compassion as you inspire us to give alms to share clean water in distant lands. Amen. CrossCatholic.org/Lent #Lent #HolyWeek #WaterForLife #charity

happy boy pumping clean water from water pump


OCTAVE OF EASTER (April 20 – 27)

We would like to thank all of our parishioners who have generously given to the Water for Life campaign to drill community wells in Africa. There is still time to give alms at CrossCatholic.org/Lent #WaterForLife #Easter #charity


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Patricia Mkandawire collects water from a stream on June 8, 2024, in Chilipapa Village, Malawi. Despite being able to see Lake Malawi in the distance with an abundance of water, the village has no clean drinking water, and villagers need to collect water from a dirty stream.(Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
Memory Mkandawire collects water from a stream on June 8, 2024, in Chilipapa Village, Malawi. Despite being able to see Lake Malawi in the distance with an abundance of water, the village has no clean drinking water, and villagers need to collect water from a dirty stream.(Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

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