- Mission and Outreach - 

Sharing God’s Bounty - Dinner for the Hungry

The St. Ignatius Loyola Parish community provides meals for anyone who is hungry on the last Wednesday of every month at 6:00 pm in our parish center. Last year, we served over 600 meals. Our guests also receive toiletry kits and can consult with volunteer nurses at our Ask-A-Nurse table.

For a list of ongoing needs, please see the Bounty Wish List

ARDEN ARCADE

Homeless Assistance Resource Team

(H.A.R.T.)

Arden Arcade HART operates in the Arden Arcade community. We support groups and individuals that purposely encounter homeless persons where they live to deliver assistance. Mercy Peddlers offer encouragement, dignity, food and toiletries, as does our St. Ignatius meal distribution team on the 4th or sometimes, 5th Saturday of each month.

The team meets to contribute homemade sandwiches, prepackaged food, fresh fruits and beverages. Forty complete meals are assembled and loaded in vehicles. In addition we bring along hygiene kits, socks, underwear and other clothing items when available. A few members of the team choose to participate in the distribution. All forty meals are handed directly to those in need, where they are. 

Our group is kindly asking for donations towards their toiletry items and meals they provide weekly to neighbors. This group meets our unhoused neighbors and provides them with necessary food and hygiene items weekly.

Requested items can be dropped off at:  Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer 4641 Marconi Ave. 

If you are interested in participating in any way, contact: 

          Emma Demers demersemma54@gmail.com or 

Jeannie Anderson-West jeannieamdg@gmail.com

XAVIER MINISTRY - Visits to the Homebound

St. Ignatius offers ministers who are willing and delighted to bring communion to parishioners who are homebound. Receiving communion is, of course, nourishing for body and spirit, but Christ is present in more than the host. The minister to the homebound makes visible in a concrete way the love God has for those who are sick and isolated—that God sees them, remembers them, and persistently reaches out to them with tenderness. The minister also represents the love of our entire parish community, reminding those who cannot be present that we miss them and that they are important to us. The homebound person also reveals the holy presence of Christ. They embody that faith that Jesus displayed in his own suffering, reminding each of us of our call to let go of our attachments and trust in God’s promise to bring us through our suffering to freedom and new life. The ministry to the homebound is a holy and mysterious exchange of transformative love through the power of the Holy Spirit.

If you or someone you know would like to be a Xavier minister or receive a Xavier minister, please contact: 

Susannah Nelson

(916) 488-3907 Ext 1012

xm@si-sac.org

LEGION OF MARY

This apostolate of men and women sanctify themselves through prayer and spiritual work in union with Our Lady under the guidance of the clergy.

This ministry meets every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in the Banchero Room in the Parish Office building.

All are welcome!

STITCHES 4 GOOD

Stitches 4 Good is a group of parishioners and friends of parishioners who gather once a month to knit and crochet together. All the items created are donated to charities around town. This ministry meets the first Wednesday of the month from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in the Ministries Room in the Parish Office building. All are welcome!

QUILTING FOR A CAUSE

A group interested on developing community and service through the art of QUILTING. 

Under the guidance of Mrs. Santarosa and Mrs. Slavik the group has created beautiful and unique quilts that are distributed between the ones in need. After blessing them some quilts go to the Xavier Ministry at our Parish, as well as other places in need like Bishop Gallegos Maternity Home.

SISTER PARISH: Honduras

St. Ignatius Loyola in Sacramento has enjoyed a long and fruitful 14-year relationship with San Ignacio Loyola in El Progreso, Honduras. Fr. Jack Donald, the pastor of the parish, visits us annually to update St. Ignatius on the complex and intense Jesuit ministry happening in Honduras.

For more information, email Honduras@si-sac.org.

Annual Catholic Appeal

Join with the Sacramento Diocese to support social ministries at our parish and throughout Northern California. Click the button below to learn more about this year's appeal and find out how you can donate.

Coalition for Racial Equity

The Coalition for Racial Equity invites all to respond to Christ's call to love our neighbor by transforming our parish and community into one that embodies racial equity. We offer opportunities to learn, build community, and advocate.

The Coalition provides programs and experiences to learn about racism and its impact in our lives, the Church, and community. These include book and film discussions, speaker series, JustFaith racial justice programs. We collaborate to celebrate greater diversity within our liturgy, including masses for Juneteenth and Saint Lorenzo Ruiz. 

We build community with parishes and community-based organizations that work to improve equity. We encourage advocacy in the parish, diocese, and government to achieve greater racial equity.

If you are interested in learning more or participating, click the link to our webpage or email: coalition4racialequity@outlook.com

Ecumenical and Interfaith Collaboration
St. Ignatius collaborates with members of our community who belong to a variety of faith traditions. St. Ignatius participates in the Arden-Arcade & Carmichael Faith Communities Coalition, The Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento, and the Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue Commission. St. Ignatius partners with other churches through Sacramento ACT (PICO) and Arden-Arcade Homelessness Assistance Response Team (HART). We pray together during the Week of Christian Unity, we serve together at Sharing God’s Bounty, and we work together on issues such as homelessness and poverty.