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Trinity House Catholic Worker
Offering Relief for Victims of Capitalism; Dedicated to Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

What're Trinity House Catholic Workers Doing? About 280 lunches are served every month through the work of volunteers organizing free community picnics at 13th and Central and on the sidewalk in front of UNM's bookstore. This service helps people in emergency situations, and will continue as long as donations flow in and people downtown need a free lunch. People in need of a box of food, a shower or laundry services can stop by Trinity House on Saturday mornings to receive such help. The Wilkies, the P&J, and Trinity House also help with massive free food redistribution in three locations. (Call for info.) Our current House capacity is six full-time Catholic Workers and three Guests. Catholic Workers commit to at least two years of a delightful lifestyle where hard work is integrated with prayer and leisure. The necessity of our service is intense and growing steadily as the US economy continues to create more victims in the homeland. We must be ready for greater works of mercy. Please help with this project--at any level of volunteering or donating, by contacting Jerome, Chelsea or Marcos: 505 242-0497. Or send an electronic message to TrinityHouse (AT) CatholicWorker.biz ("we check it at least ONCE per month"). VOLUNTEER!

Wish List for Trinity House & Friends updated 16 July 2008 socks Vitamin C black tea step-stool a desk lamp a can opener a coffee maker heavy-duty spatula plastic ice cube trays 5 new windows--correct sizes Railroad ties (for landscaping details) spoons, bowls, cups--re-usable/sort of permanent implements Electric PA system (for prayer-actions with amped music & voice) AND WE NEED PLUMBERS, ELECTRICIANS, AND CARPENTERS

VISION STATEMENT: Trinity House is a welcoming community of hospitality, where the fundamental spirit of a healthy family is encouraged and created, in order to become alive and well. We offer an open table fellowship and a safe haven for the poor, including the physically, intellectually, and spiritually homeless. Our intentional community is grounded in the humanity and teachings of Jesus Christ, especially as manifest in Jesus' mission statement of liberation [Luke 4:16-19]; his new world view, love of enemies, Sermon on the Mount [Matthew: 5-7] and Sermon on the Plain [Luke 6: 17-49]; and the joy and unity of a community of compassion [Matthew 25: 31-46]. MISSION STATEMENT: We are a House of Hospitality based in the tradition of the Catholic Worker movement. We seek to imitate Jesus Christ by living a particular lifestyle with three priorities: First, to co-create with God a community that is built on faith, love, hope, prayer, compassion, gratitude, joy peace and justice; Second, to express the Love of God by helping to alleviate the pains of those in need, primarily those of the Poor and Homeless folks in New Mexico; Third, to peacefully challenge and change those social structures which create division, alienation, isolation, domination, exploitation, and involuntary poverty.

You can write to us, and donate checks and money orders to us, here at
Trinity House Catholic Worker
POB 4099
Albuquerque, NM 87196 USA

A NOTE ON THE LANGUAGE Trinity House a provocative name, calling to mind both the nuclear weapons heritage of New Mexico, and the Great Loving Mystery of "God is with us all, God is for us all, and God is in us all." We are part of the decentralized, love-based, egalitarian Catholic Worker Movement which challenges us to a faith that does justice and manifests an equal concern for the works of mercy and social justice action. Thus, we have equal motivation for two causes: (1) to treat the poor folks as ambassadors of God, (2) to do all that is necessary to resist the nuclear-warmongering system (which is ultimately responsible for worsening poverty, destitution, disease, and dysfunction in our contemporary USA).

Please help with our Community Picnics! (SEE http://www.catholicworker.biz/art/ for more artistic displays!)

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