A team of oblates celebrated the Feast of St. Benedict on July 11 by serving guests at Emmaus Soup kitchen. “We are so grateful to this team of oblates who regularly bring their monastic presence to our guests,” observed Sister Val Luckey, Director of Emmaus Ministries. Emmaus provides food, presence and dignity to the poor of Erie through a soup kitchen that serves 1,000 meals a week, an after-school Kids Cafe program that offers a home-cooked meal and recreation opportunities to inner-city children each day, a food pantry that distributes 20,000 food bags per year, Emmaus Grove urban garden, and a women’s advocacy program.

Picture are, left to right, Oblates Rita Scrimenti, Karen Groucutt, Paul Groucutt, Charlene Serfozo, Vinny Brocki, Dorothy Konyha, Ginny Brocki, Mary Hembrow-Snyder, Janice Etchison, Cherylann Carter, and Mary Ann Matlock