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Lent 2026 - Almsgiving

- Let’s explore Lent as a faith community this year!
  
  And, come back here to find ways to help us refocus and refresh our souls in preparation for Easter.
  
  Additional ways to focus on giving alms this Lent will be posted on Facebook here.
- Caring for Creation
  
  Here are 2 parish events that will provide opportunities to care for our beautiful world!
  
  March 14 - Adopt-a-Highway
  
  March 21 - Adopt-a-Trail (info. will be posted soon)
- BISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEAL
  
  Every parishioner benefits from the BAA. Visit our website to learn more. If you have not yet participated,
  
  donate online at GivetoBAA.org today. Commitment envelopes are available in the office as well.
  
  Thank you for your support.
  We are stronger together!
- St. Vincent dePaul Giving Tree
  
  A New Parish Lent Project
  
  Everyday our neighbors, who look just like us, face difficult situations, making hard choices between one necessity or another. Some are hungry. Some need clothes, have no heat, no lights, no water. Some are struggling to keep a roof overhead; facing eviction and homelessness. Often they have no hope. Where can they turn?
  
  This Lent, there will be a tree in the Gathering Space. Take a card off of the tree, make a contribution, and by doing so you will make a real difference in a neighbors’s life! Give online here.
  
  Learn more about St. Vincent de Paul here.
- Each Lent, Catholic families across the country unite to put their faith into action through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Through CRS Rice Bowl, families learn about how our sisters and brothers across the globe overcome hardships like hunger and malnutrition, and how through Lenten alms, we have the power to make the world a better place for all.
  Learn more about Operation Rice Bowl here.
- St. Andrew has a Charitable Giving Taskforce which makes recommendations to the Finance Council for how our parish contributions will be distributed annually to organizations in our community and beyond.
  
  Click below to see the organizations that will be receiving funds during the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
  
  Learn more about St. Andrew Charitable Giving here.
- Donate to Catholic Charities here.
- Founded at St. Andrew, Brown Bag Ministry has prepared 1.7 million bag lunches and 68,000 hot meals to the homeless and hungry in the Triangle area.
  
  For your Lenten almsgiving consideration, BBM is always in need of your donations.
  
  Donate
- Local Organization Support
  
  Our parish generously supports Catholic Parish Outreach and Neighbor Up (formerly Western Wake Crisis Ministry) each year. In recent drives, our parish has raised thousands of pounds of food and donated thousands of dollars to each organization. Click on each image above to learn more about the organizations. There are even opportunities to volunteer with each!
- What Is Lent? For Kerry Weber of America Magazine, the answer is a journey in mercy. So…what does a bus have to do with it? (Guess you’ll have to watch and find out!) As we begin Lent, let us reflect together on what it means to journey in mercy. Where have we been touched by mercy in the past week? How can we live mercy for others in the week ahead?
- Pictured is an easy and inexpensive Lenten activity for your children. Buy some beans (larger is better) and for each act of kindness or each sacrifice, put a bean in a jar. On Easter morning, replace the beans with jellybeans! God takes our offerings and transforms them into something more wonderful.