Food Parcels

Those of you who read the post yesterday will be aware of the damage that was done by the heavy rains here during a storm that lasted all afternoon. You will also be aware that people do not receive a lot of help to deal with these problems. It was very encouraging to see today how the seminarians organised themselves to provide meals for a large number of people - I didn't get the exact number but there were certainly over 100 meals provided. This was the same food that we got in the seminary - in fact, it was taken from the food that would have been eaten in the seminary; it was a very simple and very important example of what sharing means.
After supper they brought the food to a childrens hospital and also to the homes of people affected by the landslide.
What was also very encouraging was to see the matter of factness of the gesture - this is something that they are very used to doing, and regard as something absolutely normal. It is not common to see this type of spontaneous generosity from large institutions who always have their rules and their norms and their meetings so that everything, with its pros and cons can be discussed.
The pictures show some of the seminarians and the kitchen staff preparing the individual containers of hot food to be distributed.