The next Homebound Meals Event will be on January 31 & February 1, 2026! We'll start at 8:00 AM in the School Hall on both dates and we hope to see you there!

Homebound Meals Recent Report

Turkey Extraordinaire

Homebound Meals Report - November 26-27, 2025

Thanks to our many volunteers who showed up on Wednesday and Thanksgiving morning, a wonderful Turkey Day feast was prepared and delivered. The volunteers included our “regulars,” including our faithful scouts and their moms, along with our neighborhood teens, and many other new faces. The large group of volunteers helped create a welcoming, spirit-filled atmosphere.

As you can see from the picture, the traditional feast was indeed a delicious sight. There were turkey breast slices, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, and a beautiful tossed salad with dressing. For dessert, there was a slice of home-baked pound cake made with love by one of our chefs. And of course, keeping with tradition, there was a pumpkin slice baked by Country House Restaurant. A big thank you goes out to Country House for giving us a very generous discount on the pumpkin slices. Each recipient also received special Christmas decorations, made especially for them by our Girl Scouts in Troop 26293.

Both Father Ryan and Father Wayne came down to visit with the volunteers. Father Ryan blessed the meal and those who prepared it.

A big shout-out to the St. Christina Holy Name Men’s Club for picking up the tab for the meal and to the anonymous donors who donated the turkey breasts. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Homebound Meals will be taking a holiday break. Watch The Sign for details concerning the upcoming schedule.

The Homebound Meals Ministry wishes you a very happy Christmas and the best for 2026. May Our Lord bless every one of you.

A Heart-Warming Meal for Our Homebound - February 18-19, 2023

Thanks to the many volunteers who showed up to help prepare the first delectable homebound meal for 2023. The meal consisted of turkey vegetable soup, made from the turkey breast carcasses that were frozen after the Thanksgiving Meal (Waste Not)! The main course was delectable meatloaf accompanied by homemade mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, and bread graciously donated by the Panera Day-End Dough-Nation program. Dessert was an individually wrapped chocolate cookie. Yum Yum.

Our volunteers also included Saint Christina youth who came out to help with the slicing and packaging.

This ministry is back on track. Consider joining us for our next adventure.



God Bless!
The Homebound Meal Ministry

Thanksgiving Homebound Meals - November 24, 2022

Turkey Day: A Triumph - The return of Homebound Meals was a marvelous success - Just see the picture - That says it all.

The meal included fresh baked turkey, stuffing, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberries, bread and butter, and, of course, treats and pumpkin pie.

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make this inaugural meal a huge success. Thanks also to our first grade Daisy Girl Scouts for making the Thanksgiving cards and to our first graders and eighth grade Girl Scouts for the placemats.



Finally, a special shout-out goes to Fasano Pies, who gave the Homebound Meal Ministry a huge discount on the pumpkin pies. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - August 6 and 7, 2011

We had a lovely meal this month: Tomato slices and cucumbers from the Children's Garden and Watermelon from the Melon Source. Our dinner was a lovely chicken breast baked with cheese sauce, mashed potatoes, corn and a dinner roll. As usual the volunteers were amazing.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - April 30 and May 1, 2011

The meal was delivered today and featured Carmen's famous pasta sauce, hand rolled meat balls, Italians sausage. A green salad and a lovely cake and rolls provided by Baumann's Bakery.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - June 5 and 6, 2010

This month we served oven baked chicken breasts - rice pilaf - green beans - fresh garden salad and orange cake for dessert. The taste testers gave it a great review. Our cooking staff morns the passing of one of our own. MaryJane Muraida was a dependable and joyful member of our crew. She will be missed.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - May 1 and 2, 2010

This month's meal was a new recipe - Smothered pork chops - served with homemade mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, angel food cake with strawberries. The quality control samplers thought it was a winner. The meal was prepared with love - we hope everyone enjoyed it.

Thanksgiving Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - March 5, 2010

On March 5th, the volunteers from the Parish Fish Fry and the Hombound Meals Organizations successfully joined hands and provided our homebound with a taste of our Lenten Fish. It was an enthusiastic endeavor. First responses from the recipients was that they had always wished they could attend in person, so this was a real treat. God bless our wonderful volunteers and our homebound parishioners!!! Next meal will be on May 2nd.

Delicious turkey with the trimmings of sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, veggies, stuffing, dinner rolls, cranberries, gravy, chocolate drops, and a healthy assortment of dessert items went out to over 140 of our friends on Thanksgiving Day. A substantial number of dedicated people shopped, baked, sliced, mashed, made phone calls, packaged and delivered the sumptuous treats. Many thanks to all the wonderful and caring people who made this effort a huge success, and special thanks to our good friends at Baumann’s Bakery in Palos Heights for their constant support. Bless all who gave time and effort in this ministry. We thank the generous men of the Holy Name Society for underwriting the cost of this effort.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - October 31 and November 1, 2009

Over 160 delicious meals were prepared and delivered by the caring volunteers in the Homebound Meals Program. The sturdy meal featured a tasty beef stew with carrots, celery and potatoes. Our good friends at Baumann’s Bakery in Palos Heights furnished wonderful potato dinner rolls, and cake for dessert. Thank you to all the wonderful volunteers who work so hard for this effort and thank you to all the parishioners who make it possible.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - October 3 - 4, 2009

Octoberfest was the annual theme of this month’s Homebound Meal. The meal featured brats and old-fashioned wieners from Usinger Sausage, enhanced sauerkraut, boiled and buttered potatoes, rye bread, baked apples, and chocolate cookies. The volunteers had a great time getting the 160-plus meals ready for the delivery volunteers, who bring the meals to our friends. As usual, everyone worked hard but happily on behalf of our homebound parishioners. Thank you to our good friends and fellow parishioners at Baumann’s Bakery for their generosity and their dedication. We also send a huge thank you to Paul and Sarah Thelen of Hillside Orchards in Berrien Springs, Michigan, for their generous help in providing the wonderful apples we used to make the dessert. Hillside Orchards is a regular vendor at the Sunday morning Farmers’ Market at 95th & Longwood Drive.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - September 5-6, 2009

Homebound Harvest Feast - We were blessed with 2 fine young men from Brother Rice.
We served stuffed peppers, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, cantaloupe, pound cake and a dinner role.

Homebound Meals Preparation and Delivery - August 1 - 2, 2009