We are in now what we call the thank you phase. Christmas is done, and the clean-up after Christmas is underway. And now we say thank you… Read more “The Director’s Chair”
Over the years, we have developed many processes that make it possible for our Christmas team to process over 1,500 children who will receive almost 10,000 gifts… Read more “You Think Being Santa is Easy, huh?”
On Saturday, October 28, 2023, the parishioners of Blessed Sacrament Church decided to help out the “least, the last, and the left out” by bringing clothing to… Read more “Our Fill-a-Truck Program”
One of the gifts we receive from the Lord is in realizing how we can participate in “Your neighbor as yourself.” These situations seem to be more… Read more “An Early Christmas Story”
You already know how expensive it has become to buy food for your family. As you know, we run two food pantries in the city of Worcester.… Read more “Food Distribution Program”
It is funny how problems show up on our radar. Sometimes they walk in the door. Sometimes they come through the phone. Sometimes it is a whisper.… Read more “What Urban Missionaries Do!”
Once again, I have to awaken that Christmas spirit in you, and I do know some of you are thinking, “This is way too soon!” I assure… Read more “Christmas Giving Program 2023”
One of the mainstays of our volunteer program are the groups that come to help from various parishes, schools and summer programs. When the groups arrive, they… Read more “Groups”
Once again we are reaching out to all who have donated to our ministry in the past to ask you once again to become a sustainer. Sustainer… Read more “2023 Sustainer Pledge Appeal”
In Saint John Paul II’s “Rosarium Virginis Mariae,” the Pope wrote, “With the Rosary, the Christian people sit at the school of Mary and are led to… Read more “Pray the Rosary, Save the World!”
What you just read is how we as Urban Missionaries of Our Lady of Hope respond. We try never to say no whenever we are asked to… Read more “What Urban Missionaries Do!”
It is with great pleasure that we introduce Mr. Charley O’Neill as our General Manager. Charley started at the end of January and very quickly started to… Read more “Welcome Charley O’Neill”
Walter Doyle, Co-Director First let me say “Happy Easter” to you and yours from all of us here at 242. As I am writing this to you… Read more “The Director’s Chair”
Honorarium Honorariums can be given in the name of any person or event by sending a donation to the Urban Missionaries of Our Lady of Hope. A… Read more “Memorials & Honorarium:”
They initially answered a plea for help, much like the plea we’ve issued with this issue of Streetlights. They came and looked around, and we put them… Read more “Two Unsung Volunteers”