‘Spoons of Love’ creating house for Holy Family in Ewing parish

December 12, 2024 at 4:11 p.m.
"Spoons of love," inscribed with donations and good deeds performed by parishioners in Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, West Trenton, form a house surrounding the figures of the Holy Family. Courtesy photo
"Spoons of love," inscribed with donations and good deeds performed by parishioners in Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, West Trenton, form a house surrounding the figures of the Holy Family. Courtesy photo

By EMMALEE ITALIA
Contributing Editor

Having already built a “house of bread” for the Holy Family Nativity scene last year in Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, Ewing, Father Ariel Robles, pastor, is putting a new spin on the structure for Advent 2024.

“Spoons of Love,” a project inspired by the National Eucharistic Revival’s final year theme of “mission,” involves engaging parishioners to build a house of spoons for the Nativity scene, with each spoon representing a completed act of love for someone else.

“We who are nourished by the Eucharist have the mission to go and feed the hungry,” Father Robles wrote in his parish bulletin announcement for the project. “Mother Teresa said, ‘If you cannot feed a hundred people, at least feed one.’ She also said that the greatest hunger in the world today is not hunger for food but hunger for love.”

Pointing out that the USDA Food Security Report for 2024 revealed a significant increase in food insecurity because of inflation and lingering pandemic affects, Father Robles wrote that “this Advent, we want to carry out our Eucharistic mission to feed the hungry, not only those who are hungry for food but also those who are hungry for love.”

A list of loving acts corresponding to a number of plastic spoons is listed in the announcement, with multiple suggestions, such as feeding a hungry person for 10 spoons, donating a meal to a feeding program for 10 spoons, volunteering in a feeding program for 20 spoons, as well as acts of love or kindness to family members and neighbors and praying for the less fortunate for five spoons.

“The spoons … represent our love. Offer them to the Lord as you say a prayer,” Father Robles wrote.


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Having already built a “house of bread” for the Holy Family Nativity scene last year in Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish, Ewing, Father Ariel Robles, pastor, is putting a new spin on the structure for Advent 2024.

“Spoons of Love,” a project inspired by the National Eucharistic Revival’s final year theme of “mission,” involves engaging parishioners to build a house of spoons for the Nativity scene, with each spoon representing a completed act of love for someone else.

“We who are nourished by the Eucharist have the mission to go and feed the hungry,” Father Robles wrote in his parish bulletin announcement for the project. “Mother Teresa said, ‘If you cannot feed a hundred people, at least feed one.’ She also said that the greatest hunger in the world today is not hunger for food but hunger for love.”

Pointing out that the USDA Food Security Report for 2024 revealed a significant increase in food insecurity because of inflation and lingering pandemic affects, Father Robles wrote that “this Advent, we want to carry out our Eucharistic mission to feed the hungry, not only those who are hungry for food but also those who are hungry for love.”

A list of loving acts corresponding to a number of plastic spoons is listed in the announcement, with multiple suggestions, such as feeding a hungry person for 10 spoons, donating a meal to a feeding program for 10 spoons, volunteering in a feeding program for 20 spoons, as well as acts of love or kindness to family members and neighbors and praying for the less fortunate for five spoons.

“The spoons … represent our love. Offer them to the Lord as you say a prayer,” Father Robles wrote.

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