Sister Parish: Honduras

St. Ignatius Loyola in Sacramento has enjoyed a long and fruitful 14-year relationship with San Ignacio Loyola in El Progreso, Honduras. Fr. Jack Donald, the pastor of the parish, visits us annually to update St. Ignatius on the complex and intense Jesuit ministry happening in Honduras.

For more information, email Honduras@si-sac.org.

To see our Sister Parish''s need for this year, click on the button below.

Arden Arcade Homelessness Assistance Resource Team- AAHART

The Arden Arcade Homeless Assistance Resource Team operates in the Arden Arcade community. We support groups and individuals that purposely encounter homeless persons where they live to deliver assistance. Mercy Peddlers offer encouragement, dignity, food and toiletries, as does our St. Ignatius meal distribution team on the 4th or sometimes, 5th Saturday of each month.

The team meets to contribute homemade sandwiches, prepackaged food, fresh fruits and beverages. Forty complete meals are assembled and loaded in vehicles. In addition we bring along hygiene kits, socks, underwear and other clothing items when available. A few members of the team choose to participate in the distribution. All forty meals are handed directly to those in need, where they are. 

If you are interested in participating in any way, contact: 

Emma Demers demersemma54@gmail.com or 

Jeannie Anderson-West jeannieamdg@gmail.com

Health Ministry
Our parish nurses are a key part of the parish’s commitment to holistic pastoral care, especially for those who are poor or in need. We have an Ask–A–Nurse table at our Sharing God’s Bounty dinners, where people can ask health-related questions, receive health care resources, and receive personal hygiene items, including Depends type incontinence pads and feminine hygiene products -- items that are very expensive for people with low incomes. The nurses also do an eyeglasses drive for the Lions Clubs International during Lent.

Xavier Ministry - Visits to the Homebound

St. Ignatius offers ministers who are willing and delighted to bring communion to parishioners who are homebound. Receiving communion is, of course, nourishing for body and spirit, but Christ is present in more than the host. The minister to the homebound makes visible in a concrete way the love God has for those who are sick and isolated—that God sees them, remembers them, and persistently reaches out to them with tenderness. The minister also represents the love of our entire parish community, reminding those who cannot be present that we miss them and that they are important to us. The homebound person also reveals the holy presence of Christ. They embody that faith that Jesus displayed in his own suffering, reminding each of us of our call to let go of our attachments and trust in God’s promise to bring us through our suffering to freedom and new life. The ministry to the homebound is a holy and mysterious exchange of transformative love through the power of the Holy Spirit. If you or someone you know would like to be a Xavier minister or receive a Xavier minister, please contact us.