Emmaus House
"the poor serving the poor"
 

"So many build a new life here and yet some bleed from wounds that it seems no one will ever heal. What are we to do? What are you to do? We listen to St. James? Suppose a brother or sister is in rags, but not enough to eat for the day and you say,? Good luck, God bless you, keep yourself warm and have plenty to eat?, but does nothing to supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that??(James 11:15) For almost forty years, with your help, we have answered that question by feeding the hungry, housing and empowering the homeless, caring for the sick."

-Father David Kirk (Dec. 2004)

"Live Simply So That Others May Simply Live" -- Elizabeth Seton

 

Emmaus House lives by these words and in doing so we try to have something left to share with the homeless, the hungry, the poor, the suffering, the sick, and the dying.

Over 40 years ago Father David Kirk founded Emmaus House for such as these.  We offer assistance by feeding and clothing the neighboring poor both physically and spiritually, always remembering that each and every one of us is created in the image and likeness of God.

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Most requested items: canned goods, toiletries,  jeans, t-shirts, socks, underwear and sneakers.  We are also collecting winter clothing.
"Compassion is not a sentiment, not pity, but a celebration of love.  Love shared is doubled.  Joy shared is doubled.  And the celebration is forgetting so as to remember, as in the Liturgy.  A forgetting of ego, of problems, of anxieties, in order to remember the common base that makes another's suffering mine.  Compassion is a feeling of kinship with every human person"
-- Fr David Kirk