In our November issue of StreetLights, we printed a story about a mother who came to sign up her five children for Christmas toys. Here is the… Read more “We Have Been Blessed Again! Christmas Stories”

The spectrum of works of the Urban Missionaries of Our Lady of Hope are highly dependent on the efforts and support of many people, including the Urban… Read more “Partnering Organizations by Charley O’Neill”

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”

Once again we are reaching out to you for help in solving a problem that has been with us from the very beginning of our ministry to… Read more “If You Have Some Time, We Can Use It!”

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!”

Our Flea market season is off to a roaring start. We opened the season on April 15, 2023. Our first day had all the ingredients for a… Read more “The Flea for 2023 is Open for Business”

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”

It all started with an email from Chris Mulry asking for some ideas concerning what her students could do to help out with Easter. I immediately replied,… Read more “St. Patrick’s in Rutland Brings the Easter Bunny to the Little Store”

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”

Goes out to Margarita Perez for becoming a U.S. Citizen! For Margarita, it was a long journey that began in June 2019 when she started to study… Read more “A Big Congratulations!”

You know, when you have been doing something as long as Kathy and I have been doing this ministry work, you get to a point where you… Read more “What Urban Missionaries Do”

It’s another one for the books. We had 704 families sign up for gifts this year, down about 110 families from last year, a trend that we… Read more “Christmas 2022”