{"id":1666,"date":"2017-09-17T18:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2021-01-07T18:54:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:54:23","slug":"second-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/second-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/more-disasters\/#caribbean\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20170908ff\/20170908-_97724620_041543856afp-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood parish took a second collection again today. This week&#8217;s was to help folks hit by Hurricane Irma. The one before that was for those affected by Harvey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/more-disasters\/#mexican\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20170908ff\/20170908-_97727816_041547332afp-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Folks in the Caribbean, Gulf Coast, and Florida weren&#8217;t the only ones dealing with disaster recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.radiovaticana.va\/news\/2017\/09\/17\/mexico_takes_stock_of_the_millions_needed_to_rebuild_after_q\/1337390\">Mexico takes stock of the millions needed to rebuild after quake<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nVatican Radio (September 17, 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quite a few folks in quite a few places are doing what they can to help others.<\/p>\n<p>For some, that&#8217;s prayer. Others help with &#8220;tea and kindness:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-41286967\">Parsons Green: Treating trauma with tea and kindness<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nSherie Ryder, BBC News (September 15, 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think prayer and helping folks near the front door are both good ideas. So is helping outfits like CRS, Catholic Relief Services.<\/p>\n<p>These folks will help anyone who needs it, and are global:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crs.org\/\">CRS<\/a> (Catholic Relief Services)\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crs.org\/about\/mission-statement\">Mission Statement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think responding with prayer and charity makes more sense than assuming that Mother Nature is having conniptions. (<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/more-disasters\/#sinners\">September 10, 2017<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/hurricane-harvey\/#siloam\">August 27, 2017<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked about disasters and how folks react to them fairly often in the last few weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/more-disasters\/\">More Disasters<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(September 10, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/floods-harvey-and-climate\/\">Floods, Harvey, and Climate<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(September 1, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/harvey-over-texas\/\">Harvey Over Texas<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(August 30, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/hurricane-harvey\/\">Hurricane Harvey<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(August 27, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/expectations\/\">Expectations<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(August 23, 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighborhood parish took a second collection again today. This week&#8217;s was to help folks hit by Hurricane Irma. The one before that was for those affected by Harvey. 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