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LAMP Ministries is a Catholic lay
missionary association, comprised of people
who serve among the materially poor, with a
focus on evangelization. LAMP’s call has drawn us into the beating Heart of Jesus as that Heart of Compassion embracing those most in need, with our Blessed Mother’s Heart united to His. |
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A Call
To Holiness |
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Are you called to
the mission of Lamp? |
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The Eucharist |
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The Eucharist is
central to LAMP's spirituality. The mission of the Church is a continuity of the mission of Christ and draws spiritual energy from communion with
His Body and Blood. |
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Make
A Donation |
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Although you may
not be able to visit a materially poor person or
family in a crowded shelter or walk-up apartment
in the New York City Metropolitan area, you can
help to make it possible for a LAMP Missionary
to do so. |
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"You,
Lord, give light to my lamp; my God, You brighten the
darkness about me."
- Psalm 18:28 |
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Sr.
Mary Haase, DLJC, knocks on the doors of a
homeless shelter in the Bronx.
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The 'homeless
poor' are very much with us these days. If
our lives have become more unsettled, when
can imagine a little better what the daily
lives of the homeless are like. The New
York City Department of Homeless Services
recently released these statistics.
- As of
January 2009, the NYC Homeless Shelter
system was housing 7,986 families.
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are appx 34,000 people currently staying
at city shelters including 14,800
children.
Since 1983,
LAMP has been serving among the homeless of
the city, and a few years later began to
serve in the homeless shelters that rose
everywhere in the city. We are most
privileged to shelter these families in our
hearts, and lead them to or remind them of
the Heart of Jesus, which is beating with
love for them. As we knock on their doors,
He knocks on the doors of their hearts,
beckoning them to come close and rest in
him, and let him lead the way out of the
homeless cycle. The lives of countless
homeless people have been transformed
through LAMP's presence. Many have sought
to become baptized Catholics, to have their
children baptized or receive other
Sacraments, or have come back to Mass and
the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Please know that YOU are with us as we
minister the love of the Lord Jesus to
homeless families.
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