Year: 2014

As a house, we are currently reading Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Greg Boyle.  It is a heartbreaking, warm, and inspiring book filled with the stories of a priest who has spent his life building community among former gang members of East LA through a non-profit called Homeboy Industries.  Although Boyle’s work is very different than our own, we have found great comfort in his words of hope but also in his words of struggle.  As he says, all bets are off when you choose to cast your lot with those on the margins.  With the challenges of this week at

August e-Newsletter 2014

At a city-wide forum on July 22, Lydia’s House was glad to learn more about a national initiative to end LGBTQ youth and young adult homelessness in Hamilton County. http://woub.org/2014/07/23/cincinnati-hamilton-county-start-national-lgbtq-youth-homelessness-initiative http://wvxu.org/post/pilot-program-aims-reduce-lgbtq-youth-homelessness

On this, the Feast Day of Mary Magdalene, we’d like to express our gratitude for Sunday’s prayer service with the Resurrection community and for all those who have supported us recently with monetary donations, volunteer hours, or prayer.  Recent donations have funded our washer/dryer and will also go to support a new Women’s Pastoral Ministry Internship this fall.  Especially at this time, we are grateful for the faithful witness of Mary Magdalene, apostle to the apostles, and we are grateful for the chance to regularly pray with all those who support our mission of serving homeless women and children.  Thank you!