40 Days of Giving During Lent we are called to participate in the three pillars of Lent: prayer, fasting and almsgiving. One way to help oth-ers in this way is to participate in 40 Days of Giving. Each day during Lent, put aside one non-perishable food or paper item to donate to the Hope House Food Pantry to help feed the poor. On Sunday when you go to Mass, bring your week’s donations and place them in the box for the food pantry. By bringing your donations weekly, two problems are eliminated. You are not trying to carry 40 donated items to Mass with you on Easter Sunday and the parish is not trying to store all those food items on Easter. The donations will be taken to the food pantry on a weekly basis. See the this week end’s insert