Palm Sunday Benefit Dinner and Event. April 5, 2020. In St. Vitus Parish Auditorium.

Posted on March 11, 2020 Under Bulletin, Lent, Music, Parish Events, Parish Life, Slovenian Culture

The annual Palm Sunday benefit dinner and event will be held April 5, 2020 (Sunday) in St. Vitus Parish Auditorium, 6111 Lausche Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44103 from 11AM to 1:30PM. Sit-down and take-out dinners will be available. Cost is $15 adult and $10 for a child 12 years-old or younger. Menu will be home-made soup, chicken or roast beef along with side dishes of lettuce, potatoes, side veggie plate, pastry, roll and butter along with coffee. This will be an American Slovenian Catholic Union (KSKJ) Matching Grant event. This means up to $1,000 in a matching grant for each local KSKJ lodge sponsoring this event will be matched by the home office of KSKJ. St. Vitus Lodge #25 and Christ The King Lodge #226 are sponsoring this event.  KSKJ is a national fraternal benefit society in the USA.

The two beneficiaries for this year’s event are St. Vitus Food Bank/Pantry and Lourdes Shrine, Chardon Road, Euclid, Ohio.

The parish food bank has been in continuous operation for 37 years (1983) and has provided over 610,000 pounds of food. Dry, canned food, and other food items are distributed once a month in the lower church hall of St. Vitus Church. The Lourdes Shrine opened in 1926 and is administered by the Sisters Of The Most Holy Trinity (Trinitarians) as a ministry of redemptive mercy (spiritual work of mercy). Mass and other para-liturgical services such as Eucharistic Adoration, recitation of the Rosary and Benediction, are offered as well as seasonal breakfast and lunch. The Lourdes Shrine in Euclid, OH is a replica of the Grotto in Lourdes, France.

Checks may be made to “St. Vitus Church-Works of Mercy” and mailed to: St. Vitus Rectory, Works of Mercy, 6019 Lausche Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44103. All donations received in this manner will be provided for the food bank and Lourdes Shrine. The goal is to raise $10,000 so that this work performed may be able to continue. Dinner tickets may be purchased in advance by calling the parish rectory at 216-361-1444. Only 500 dinners will be sold.