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Your donation gives your neighbours and community connection, love and support when they need it most.

Catholic Care provides welcoming places for everyone in our community to come for practical assistance, information, acceptance, or simply to connect with others.

No matter who they are, where they’re from, or what circumstances life has dealt them, your support means they are never left behind.

Be a Pilgrim of Hope for people who may break in the face of suffering

In this Holy Year of Jubilee in our Catholic Church, Pope Francis invites us all to let “the light of Christian hope illumine every man and woman, as a message of God’s love addressed to all!”

The Holy Father’s call is particularly important to those living on the margins in difficult places. In our prisons and hospitals, feelings of frailty, loneliness, and social isolation abound. Catholic Care Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains, offers chaplaincy services in these places of brokenness and suffering to provide spiritual and emotional support and share the healing power of God.

“I just felt there was a need to be out in the brokenness.”

Richard Korkor pivoted from a 15-year career in investment banking to answer God’s call to “be out in the world where the mess is.” Now a Catholic Care chaplain at Parklea Correctional Centre in Western Sydney, his vocation is not your typical line of work. It’s a ministry of profound human encounter with the compassionate face of Jesus.

“You see Christ in everyone, and everyone has a role in that place. Even through the brokenness,” Richard says.

“The dark pools of trauma within our prisons are enormous. And we are able to be little beacons of light.”

Chaplains like Richard bring healing and hope to isolated people experiencing pain and suffering in hospitals and prisons.

With Christian companionship and love, may we each be signs of hope for our brothers and sisters in their time of need.

Thank you for your compassionate gift and prayerful support.

Very Rev Luis Fernado Montano Rodriguez
Vicar General, Episcopal Vicar for Social Welfare, Catholic Care Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains Advisory Council Member.

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