Universities

• Order CRS Rice Bowl materials: Please place your order for free CRS Rice Bowl materials at least three weeks prior to Ash Wednesday to ensure your campus community has its CRS Rice Bowls for Lent.
• Plan a meaningful Lent for your community: Use these five easy steps to get your university chapter started with CRS Rice Bowl.

Pray, Reflect and Learn

• Read the Stories of Hope: Learn how communities around the world are overcoming hunger and the impact of climate change.
• Pray with your community: Begin and end Lent with an in-person or virtual prayer gathering.

Act

• Host a prayer and action vigil: Use the Simple Supper for Global Hunger resource to reflect on the injustice of global hunger and advocate in support of our sisters and brothers around the world.
• Cook with your community: Experience new cultures while practicing abstinence and fasting during Lent with a variety of meatless meal recipes from this year’s featured countries.
• Turn in your rice bowls: Easily give your Lenten alms online, by phone or by mail, or create a personalized, online giving page for your community to give together and see your collective impact!