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Date: 2/9/2022
ENFIELD, CT – The Little Sisters of the Poor are back this year with their annual soup sale on March 2 at St. Joseph’s Residence on 1365 Enfield St. All orders are to-go and will be available for drive thru pick up from 12 to 4 p.m. They will be selling their most popular soups broccoli & cheddar and New England clam chowder for folks to have.
“We’re very excited about this event,” said Development Director Sister Frances MacKay, who has been a Little Sister for over 60 years. “Last year was a great success and we sold everything we made. We’re hoping for more success this year. By having a drive thru, we will have the soups in a bag with peoples’ names on it. They don’t have to get out of their car, we’ll give the soup to them to enjoy at home at their leisure.”
MacKay told Reminder Publishing the Little Sisters have been doing soup sales for many years, but this is the second year they are doing a drive-thru. The Development Department comes up with many ideas for fundraisers, and the soup sale is one of them. Every month, the Little Sisters do a fundraiser to raise funds to care for their elderly residents in the building. Throughout COVID-19, according to MacKay, they’ve been trying to think of new ways to serve the community.
The Little Sisters of the Poor are an international congregation of Roman Catholic women founded in 1839 by Saint Jeanne Jugan. Together with a diverse network of collaborators, they serve the neediest elderly of every race and religion in over 31 countries around the world and have 25 homes in the United States. The Little Sisters at St. Joseph’s Residence provides care for 85 elderly residents. They originally started in New Haven, but moved to Enfield in 1972 where they currently reside.
Little Sisters is a Mendicant order, a lifestyle of poverty, traveling and living in urban areas for purposes of preaching, evangelization and ministry especially to the poor. Because they are a nonprofit, all of the money they receive is from the petitioning they do outside of the community, businesses or fundraisers they have.
“We are so grateful to the people in this area,” MacKay said. “This is a big year for us because we’ve been here 50 years and we want to celebrate.”
All proceeds from the soup sale will help to complete many of the ongoing building projects that are in need of being upgraded and/or replaced, including a new van, boilers, plumbing, electrical switches and much more.
Orders can be placed until Feb 25. To order, go online at https://LSPsoup22.givesmart.com or call 860-265-1872.