INCREASING NUMBERS OF SENIORS CONFRONTING HUNGER SHOWING UP AT FOOD BANKS IN THE USA...........

 Tuesday mornings are Feed the Hungry ministry day each week at OLOL,  and hundreds of persons and families will come here today, to seek the groceries they need to avoid hunger.  Food banks and feeding ministries in the Del Paso Heights / Rio Linda / Elverta / Robla areas of Sacramento, like that throughout the region, are seeing increasing numbers of people turning up to receive food, and a growing number of them becoming senior citizens who are struggling, sinking, and striving to survive,in this time of economic recession, like they have not faced until now.  Not just the poor, but middle class families, are showing up seeking food assistance to subsist, when they customarily have not had to confront such a struggle.  On Monday, 'The Sacramento Bee', publiished a front page, above the fold, news story on the local economy, chronicling the new reality of hunger, and what increasing numbers are having to do to avoid it.  A startling fact is that in Sacramento and around the country seniors 60, and above are the fastest growing age group becoming, "food insecure", defined as having sufficient nutritious food unavailable to them, or the food being too costly, putting them at risk of going hungry.  What until recent times has been thought of and responded to, as poo greatly appreciate the dozens and dozens of feeding ministriesckets of poverty, has become a much more mainstream, middle class tragedy.  My decade as chairman of the Sacramento Diocesan Food gave me a deeper empathy for the ongoing need to feed the hungry, and a greater appreciate for the dozens of dozens of feeding ministries in these 20 counties of Superior California, in parishes and localities, that continue to address the need for food on the part of evermore people acutely affected by a seriously sour economy.  Sadly, in the ten years since my Food Bowl ministry concluded the crisis has compunded.  Please God, the charity, generosity, and conscience, of an equally large number of donors will also continue to share in the effort to eradicate hunger and see to it that seniors and all our citizens have the food they need to more than subsist.  In the world's largest economy, it is grevious indictmen that anyone - children, families, seniors, the disabled, and the indigent, go hungry.  So do what you can do today, this week, NOW, to see that others who are truly hungry are fed...........Feed The Body And We Shall Surely Feed The Soul,   Fr.  Troy