St. Camillus Catholic Church
(Silver Spring Pantry)
1600 St. Camillus Drive
Silver Spring, MD 20903
https://www.stcamillusfoodpantry.org/
Phone: 301-434-8400
Hours: Friday 3 pm -5 pm and Saturday 10 am-12 noon
The St. Anthony Food Pantry/ La Despensa de San Antonio
Phone: 301-328-5105
Hours: Saturday 10 am-12 noon
The largest activity of this ministry is the operation of our parish food pantry, which provides emergency food assistance to families in need. Food is distributed at the St. Camillus Food Pantry Friday - 3-5PM and Saturday 10-12 noon.
For more information, please see the food pantry website: https://www.
If you are available some Thursday afternoons, the parish offers a wonderful way to help others. Every Thursday, a group of dedicated volunteers meets the truck from the Capital Area Food Bank and unloads and shelves the delivery in preparation for the pantry's operating hours on Fridays and Saturdays.
It is a crucial service to the success of the pantry's ministry. If you have an hour or two to serve each month, we would love to have you.
We also welcome STUDENT volunteers. This is a great way to earn service hours. Any student younger than 18 must be accompanied by an adult. For more information, please contact Patty Kolar at [email protected]
Each week we stop off at Safeway or Giant to buy groceries for our families. We pick up some pasta and sauce for tonight, maybe some peanut butter and jelly for the kids' lunches, and a can of tuna for a casserole later in the week. Hopefully, while we are shopping for our family, we remember to shop for "our family", those countless thousands right in our parish area who are out of work and struggling to put food on their families' tables.
At St. Camillus we ask each person to try and bring at least one food item each Sunday to help replenish our two food pantries. We believe that if "each one brings one" when they come to Mass, we can go a long way toward wiping out hunger in our neighborhood. This is stewardship at its most basic- realizing how blessed we are to have enough money to buy enough food for our families and, out of that gratitude, sharing with others whose families otherwise might go without. Below is a list of the most needed items.