The Polish Jesuits serve to immigrants of Polish descent in Chicago, USA since 1934. The community belongs to the South Poland Province. For the last 20 years they have operated in the Jesuit Millennium Center, which is a place for pastoral work and a home for many different groups.

From mid-March 2020, when everything stopped due to the pandemic, representatives of the Polish Christian Life Community In Chicago, based in the JMC, for the next 15 weeks, went every Tuesday to the homeless in downtown Chicago, bringing them food, warm clothes, and comforting them through their presence.

Why did they do this? The conviction that the homeless need presence and help now motivated Ann, Ula and fr Jerzy to act. With the help of friends and with the support of benefactors, they were able to bring some support to those who were more in need at that time. See and hear their testimonies of this ministry (english subtitles):

An unexpected yet eloquent sign of closeness and service, for example, was the haircut of one of the homeless, Steven.

In these homeless people you could see not only the "face of Christ", but also the image of "God's child". The homeless turned out to be simple, honest and deeply religious people. Every trip for the team was a lesson of faith.

These few months also saw dramatic events: flooding in which several homeless people died; protests and riots that broke out in many cities in the United States and their consequences.

Trips with gifts for the homeless were also an opportunity to experience God's providence. At first people thought it was crazy to put themselves in such a risk, to endanger their families, but then they started to help, whether it was shopping or preparing trips.

These 15 weeks were for the team, their relatives and the CLC group an evident sign of God’s grace in action.