Emmaus CW House in Albany NY featured in "Finding Our Faith And discovering other ways to pray" by Rob Brill, Times Union, December 21, 2015
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"Finding Our Faith And discovering other ways to pray" by Rob Brill,
Times Union, December 21, 2015
http://www.timesunion.com/518life/article/Finding-Our-Faith-6712596.php
CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT
Fred Boeher <fred...@gmail.com> wasn't taught about the Catholic
Worker Movement in the Catholic schools he attended in New York City
and on Long Island. He first heard of Dorothy Day and the movement she
co-founded when he came upstate for college in 1986.
Boehrer recalls how he and Diane Conroy, his fellow University at
Albany student and future wife, were drawn to Catholic Workers'
commitment to nonviolence, prayer, voluntary poverty and hospitality
for the homeless and hungry.
In 1996, they founded Emmaus House in Albany's South End where they
would live and raise their family that now includes three children.
Relying on donations, Emmaus House is also a place to stay for
families in need and for others to pray, worship and reach out to a
neighborhood in need.
"Many folks who join us for prayer and worship belong to other
parishes. Some don't attend church," Boehrer says. "People are drawn
to us because we are in a low-income neighborhood where they can come
and advocate for the poor as Jesus did, treating others with civility,
giving thanks to God."
There is a weekly prayer service and a potluck dinner, and additional
services during Advent and Lent. Among the priests who preside over
Masses is the Rev. Robert Longobucco, a friend and fellow undergrad at
UAlbany, who is now pastor at St. Kateri Parish in Schenectady.
Emmaus House emphasizes the value of growing our own food, something
Catholic Workers have practiced over the years in farming communes.
"We've taken vacant lots and converted them to vegetable gardens with
raised beds and trucked-in soil," Boehrer says. Greens are grown from
seed at a farm in Columbia County. A prayer service in June included
working in a garden.
With this year's Indian summer extending the growing season and poised
to cover the plants with plastic overnight when frost is forecast,
Boehrer was hoping to be picking spinach and lettuce well into
December.
Times Union, December 21, 2015
http://www.timesunion.com/518life/article/Finding-Our-Faith-6712596.php
CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT
Fred Boeher <fred...@gmail.com> wasn't taught about the Catholic
Worker Movement in the Catholic schools he attended in New York City
and on Long Island. He first heard of Dorothy Day and the movement she
co-founded when he came upstate for college in 1986.
Boehrer recalls how he and Diane Conroy, his fellow University at
Albany student and future wife, were drawn to Catholic Workers'
commitment to nonviolence, prayer, voluntary poverty and hospitality
for the homeless and hungry.
In 1996, they founded Emmaus House in Albany's South End where they
would live and raise their family that now includes three children.
Relying on donations, Emmaus House is also a place to stay for
families in need and for others to pray, worship and reach out to a
neighborhood in need.
"Many folks who join us for prayer and worship belong to other
parishes. Some don't attend church," Boehrer says. "People are drawn
to us because we are in a low-income neighborhood where they can come
and advocate for the poor as Jesus did, treating others with civility,
giving thanks to God."
There is a weekly prayer service and a potluck dinner, and additional
services during Advent and Lent. Among the priests who preside over
Masses is the Rev. Robert Longobucco, a friend and fellow undergrad at
UAlbany, who is now pastor at St. Kateri Parish in Schenectady.
Emmaus House emphasizes the value of growing our own food, something
Catholic Workers have practiced over the years in farming communes.
"We've taken vacant lots and converted them to vegetable gardens with
raised beds and trucked-in soil," Boehrer says. Greens are grown from
seed at a farm in Columbia County. A prayer service in June included
working in a garden.
With this year's Indian summer extending the growing season and poised
to cover the plants with plastic overnight when frost is forecast,
Boehrer was hoping to be picking spinach and lettuce well into
December.
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