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Date: 1/25/2023
ENFIELD, CT – The Little Sisters of the Poor are back again with their annual Soup Sale on Feb. 22 at St. Joseph’s Residence on 1365 Enfield St. All orders are to go and will be available for drive thru and pick up from 12 to 4 p.m. The Little Sisters will be selling their most popular soups – broccoli & cheddar and New England clam chowder – for folks to have this winter season.
“We’re always excited about this event,” said Development Director Sister Frances. “We’re hoping for more success and more orders 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.”
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.
Sister Frances told Reminder Publishing the Little Sisters have been doing soup sales for many years, but this is the third 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 and thinking of new ways to serve the community. Development Secretary Christina said, “The drive thru soup sale has been a way for us to do fundraising since COVID[-19]; coming up with new interesting ways to raise money. People can place their orders online, they can drive through and pick up their soup.”
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 electrical upgrades, a new boiler, the garden by the stations of the cross redone and much more.
All orders can be made now up until Feb. 17. Go online and order at https://LSPsoup23.givesmart.com or call 860-265-1872.