Food in the Bible
GOD PROVIDED THIS BREAD-LIKE FOOD TO THE ISRAELITES ON THEIR JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND.
HE LONGED TO EAT THE SCRAPS FROM THE RICH MAN’S TABLE.
WHO IS LAZARUS?
EVERYONE DESERVES ENOUGH FOOD, BECAUSE WE BELIEVE NOT JUST IN THE RIGHT TO LIFE BUT IN THE RIGHT TO A LIFE WITH THIS.
WHAT IS DIGNITY?
THIS IS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO GO TO BED HUNGRY EVERY NIGHT.
WHAT IS ALMOST ONE BILLION?
THIS CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION HELPS PEOPLE IN NEED IN 91 COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD.
WHAT IS CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES?
THIS WAS THE TREE THAT JESUS CURSED FOR NOT BEARING FRUIT.
FAMINE DROVE HIS BROTHERS TO EGYPT TO FIND FOOD.
WHO IS JOSEPH?
THE U.S. CATHOLIC BISHOPS TEACH US THAT PEOPLE DESERVE THE RIGHT TO CLOTHING, SHELTER, HEALTH CARE, EDUCATION, WORK AND THIS.
WHAT IS FOOD?
THIS IS TRUE OF OVER 140 MILLION CHILDREN IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD.
WHAT IS THEY ARE UNDERWEIGHT?
THESE ARE TWO OF THE MINISTRIES HERE AT ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI THAT GIVE ASSISTANCE TO THE POOR AND NEEDY.
WHAT IS PROJECT 1-1-1 AND MEALS-ON-WHEELS?
THIS WAS THE FOOD JESUS BROKE, BLESSED AND SHARED WITH HIS APOSTLES THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED.
THE PROPHET ELIJAH LEFT THIS FOR THE WIDOW AND HER SON SO THEY WOULDN’T GO HUNGRY.
WHAT ARE FLOUR AND OIL?
SAINT POPE JOHN PAUL SAID THAT UNTIL EVERYONE HAS ENOUGH NO ONE SHOULD HAVE THIS.
WHAT IS TOO MUCH?
PEOPLE IN HAITI AND ETHIOPIA WERE RESCUED FROM STARVATION BY FOOD ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN THIS PIECE OF LEGISLATION.
WHAT IS THE U.S. FARM BILL?
THIS LENTEN PROGRAM OF CRS CHALLENGES US TO LIVE SIMPLY, SACRIFICE, AND SHARE WHAT WE HAVE WITH THOSE IN NEED.
WHAT IS OPERATION RICE BOWL?
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO GOD TOLD THE ISRAELITES TO LEAVE THE MISSED PRODUCE AFTER THE HARVEST (IN THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY).
WHO ARE THE ALIENS, THE WIDOWS AND THE ORPHANS?
THE DEVIL TEMPTED JESUS IN THE DESERT TO CHANGE STONES INTO THESE.
WHAT ARE LOAVES OF BREAD?
SHARING OUR BREAD WITH THE HUNGRY IS ONE OF THESE SEVEN.
WHAT ARE THE SEVEN CORPORAL WORKS OF MERCY?
THIS IS THE CONTINENT WITH THE LARGEST NUMBER OF HUNGRY PEOPLE.
WHAT IS ASIA?
THIS WAS THE PARABLE IN WHICH JESUS TEACHES US THAT GOD WILL GO TO THE HIGHWAYS AND BEYOND TO INVITE THOSE WHOM SOCIETY VALUES THE LEAST.
WHAT IS THE WEDDING FEAST OF THE KING’S SON?
JESUS SAID THIS TO THE “SHEEP” MATTHEW 25.
WHAT IS “I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU FED ME”?
THIS IS THE PERSON WHO SAID, “WE ARE IN FRONT OF A GLOBAL SCANDAL OF AROUND ONE BILLION PEOPLE WHO STILL SUFFER FROM HUNGER TODAY. WE CANNOT LOOK THE OTHER WAY AND PRETEND THAT THIS DOES NOT EXIST. THE FOOD AVAILABLE IN THE WORLD IS ENOUGH TO FEED EVERYONE.”
WHO IS POPE FRANCIS?
OVER 150 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WOULD NO LONGER BE HUNGRY IF THIS GROUP HAD THE SAME RESOURCES AS THEIR COUNTERPARTS.
WHO ARE WOMEN FARMERS?