Community Services Team

Roxanne de la Torre, the Outreach Director at Xavier Mission, collaborates with DRE Luz Marina Diaz to coordinate community services for the Family Faith Program. This year, the Welcome Table Art Committee oversees coordinating the community services for the Welcome Table. They organize seasonal centerpieces and craft workshops that are age-appropriate for each grade level. Community services also include sorting donation clothing, delivering Thanksgiving meals to homebound families, collecting items for refugees and the homeless.

Each Sunday, Family Faith students and their parents/guardians are responsible for setting up the snacks in the Xavier High School library before the catechetical session begins and cleaning the library at the end of the session. Owen is in charge of coordinating this community service.

As part of the preparation for receiving the sacrament of confirmation, catechists along with students and their parents/guardians practice the corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, to give drink to the thirsty, to clothe the naked, to give shelter, to visit the sick, to visit the imprisoned, and to bury the dead. They discern creative ways and practices of showing mercy within and outside our faith community.