What does it mean to be a part of the CSS Legacy of Hope Society? It means that through your generosity, you can support CSS in different ways, long into the future. Chris Raun of the Catholic Foundation of Southern Nebraska explains several financial strategies designed to not only support CSS but also provide tax breaks to benefit you and/or your family.
Nebraska Catholic Conference
On the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Catholic bishops of Nebraska shared a letter (in English and in Spanish) with migrants across the state, expressing the bishops’ compassion, solidarity, and support for immigrants in Nebraska, including those concerned about the possibility of mass deportations.
Hastings Catholic Schools
More than 100 students from St. Cecilia High School in Hastings traveled into the surrounding community Nov. 20 to share the love of Christ through service.
Students were accompanied by all high school faculty members and 10 volunteers. To start the day, students were split into groups and assigned work schedules. Service groups spent the school day visiting and lending a hand at 15 homes, two nursing homes, the Good Samaritan Village, Catholic Social Services, two small businesses and all the neighbors surrounding the St. Cecilia campus.
By Katie Patrick
As the holiday season approaches and twinkling lights and Christmas wreaths adorn streetscapes across Southern Nebraska, a unifying theme of the Christ-child shines through the windows of our Gift & Thrift stores.
By Levi Baus,
Volunteer Coordinator in Lincoln
“O God, who wonderfully created the dignity of human nature and still more wonderfully restored it, grant, we pray, that we may share in the divinity of Christ, who humbled himself to share in our humanity.”
— Collect for Mass during the Day, the Solemnity of Christmas
Southern Nebraska Register
The Auburn Chamber of Commerce named St. Francis Gift & Thrift (SFGT), owned and operated by Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska (CSS), its “Business of the Year.”
by Veronica Hotovy
St. Gianna Program Manager
Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska
“It saved my life being here.” These are words we heard from one of our current residents of St. Gianna Women’s Home during an interview on the CSS podcast, “Hope in the Good Life.” They are words that, in one form or another, we often hear at St. Gianna’s. Words from women who have found an opportunity to take a step back from the chaos that they’ve been living in and begin to rebuild their lives.
On October 18, 2024, Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska (CSS) welcomed author Stephanie Saldaña to Lincoln for a dinner with around 40 local Syrian, Iraqi, and Yazidi refugees and as part of a tour across the United States for Saldaña’s most recent book, What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry (2023).
