Emmaus House
"the poor serving the poor"
"Emmaus is simple Christianity, where giving a cup of cold water on a hot summer's day is like a sacrament." -- Fr David Kirk

Traveling Kitchen

Each Thursday night friends of Emmaus travel the streets of Manhattan providing food and drink to the hungry. In the cold months, blankets, coats and other winter clothing are distributed to those in need. The past several weeks have seen different groups of volunteers from area churches .

Winter 2010 Newsletter:  We are our Brother's Keeper.  As we prepare for Lent, let us heed the words from a sermon of St. Leo (450 AD):  "Let us now extend to the poor and those afflicted in different ways a more openhanded generosity, so that God may be thanked through many voices and the relief of the needy supported by our fasting. No act of devotion on the part of the faithful gives God more pleasure than that which is lavished on his poor...In these acts of giving do not fear a lack of means. A generous spirit is itself great wealth. There can be no shortage of material for generosity where is Christ who feeds and Christ who is fed."  Read More.

UPCOMING EVENTS


The Traveling Kitchen operates  on Thursday evenings.  We leave Emmaus House at 7pm.  If you would like to join us, please call Fr. Martin Kraus at 516-234-0463. You can also email him at emmausharlem@gmail.com

ARCHIVED NEWS

Christmas 2009 Newsletter: "Christmas is our feast. The time we remember Jesus, born homeless in a shelter in Bethlehem..." It was with these words from Fr. David Kirk that we began our Christmas letter to you last year. We felt it fitting to revisit them as Emmaus House re-opens its doors after a summer of having been closed... Read more

Historic Rachmaninoff Vespers Service. NEW YORK, NY [OCA Communications] -- Selections from Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil was sung at a Vespers service at St. Nicholas Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Church in New York City on February 7, 2009.  This was said to be the first time in the Western Hemisphere that Rachmaninoff's Vespers is sung in an Orthodox liturgical service. Read more.

Christmas 2008 Newsletter: Christmas is our feast. The time we remember Jesus, born homeless in a shelter in Bethlehem. The time of hope, of the birth of hope ... the time we try once again to open our hearts, our lives, and let God be born in us. Read more.

The Road to Emmaus Runs Through Harlem. An interview with Fr. David Kirk a few hours before he fell asleep in the Lord.

Dec. 25, 2007: Press Release
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, East Meadow, NY
Two priests from Holy Trinity Orthodox Church celebrated pre-Nativity Vespers with the staff and residents of Emmaus House-Harlem. Read more.

Christmas 2007 Newsletter: This is the first Christmas since Father David's death and we still miss him keenly but his spirit and lifelong dedication to the principle of "empowering the poor to serve the poor" spurs us on. For as Father David taught us, it is in the poor where Christ is fed, healed, set free, given hospitality, and given dignity. Read more.

Fr. David Kirk and His Legacy of Hope by Julia and Albert Raboteau. This article was first published in the Fall 2007 edition of Jacob's Well.
Remembering Fr. David Kirk by Father John Garvey.

All Things Considered, June 10, 2007.  The formerly homeless residents of Emmaus House in Harlem recently buried their spiritual leader, the Rev. David Kirk. Kirk, who died at age 72 last month, believed in empowering the poor to serve the poor. Listen to this online radio show.


Father David Kirk Archive - website dedicated to the life of Fr. David Kirk. Includes many of Fr. David's writings.