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Catholic Charities USA


Saturday of the First Week of Lent

Readings of the Day
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The work of a Catholic Charities case manager or counselor is, by
nature, very challenging. It is so easy to take on clients'
burdens and pains, without realizing that they are being added to the
many that are already being experienced in his or her own life. (This
is exactly why "self-care" has become such an important
topic and practice in the social work field.)

Unfortunately, not all who live in our communities are on the same
page as we are relative to the services we collectively provide to our
neighbors in need...and that makes it hard.

* Not everyone believes that those experiencing homelessness
should be housed or fed.
* Not everyone believes that we have a moral calling to welcome
the stranger, especially if the stranger is not from our own
land.
* Not everyone believes that there is enough food to share, so
that those with little have some.
* Not everyone believes that we have an obligation to care for a
baby, not only while in its mother's womb, but after
birth, too.

Jesus has a message for us in today's Gospel. But before giving
us the message, he acknowledges our partisan, divided nature:
"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love you
neighbor and hate your enemy.'" (We haven't changed
much in 2000 years, have we?)

As a Catholic Charities staff member, it would be so easy to say
"Good riddance! Be gone!" to those in our community who
are opposed to resettling refugees or our offering connections to food
or providing assistance in order to keep individuals or families
housed.

Although it might be easier to take this approach, Jesus says that we
can't: "I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for
those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly
Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes
rain to fall on the just and the unjust."

Heavenly Father, this day, we pray that all eyes and ears in our
community be open - even ourown - to the needs of our
brothers and sisters, regardless of their age or faith tradition or
countryof birth or nationality or race or any other differences. Help
us to remember that "now is a veryacceptable time" to
greet - and pray for - not only our friends, but our
enemies. "Now is the dayof salvation."

 

Mark Barry is Director of Communications & Fundraising for
Catholic Charities of Tennessee, an agency he has served for nearly
ten years. During his tenure, he also served on the CCUSA Development
& Communications Professional Interest Group steering team for
five years. He and his wife, Kathleen, are longtime members of St.
Henry Church in Nashville. Their son, Joseph, lives in Houston.





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