The 100 years of CFS history is simply a long sequence of days, weeks, months and years of responding to needs that often lurk below the surface of the city, Lemelin said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e ready with anything they need to grow,鈥� she said.
No one should discount the value of a Catholic agency that delivers services to poor and struggling families, said Lemelin.
鈥淭hey want their religion respected and they don鈥檛 get that everywhere,鈥� she said.
The kind of advice and counselling Catholic Family 鱿鱼视频app offers wouldn鈥檛 necessarily be easy to access if not for CFS.
鈥淥ut in the community, it鱿鱼视频app expensive,鈥� she said.
Catholic Family 鱿鱼视频app ensures that no one is turned away because they can鈥檛 pay.
While it鱿鱼视频app important that CFS services are professional, it鱿鱼视频app also important because the social work agency is an expression of the Church鱿鱼视频app mission, said Toronto Auxiliary Bishop Bob Kasun.
鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app extremely important in the Church because it鱿鱼视频app part of our identity. Even more, it鱿鱼视频app part of our mission,鈥� Kasun said at the Mass and reception which drew dozens of employees and former employees of Catholic Family 鱿鱼视频app. 鈥淚t鱿鱼视频app what Jesus did. He took care of needy people and He鱿鱼视频app asked us to do the same. A huge part of the Gospels would include the exhortation to take care of the poor and others who are suffering.鈥�
Preaching on the Book of Revelation, Cardinal Thomas Collins told the social workers their work makes the heavenly city of Jerusalem present, even when it feels like we鈥檙e stuck in a half-built, self-aggrandizing Babylon.
鈥淲e are citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, yet we are living in the world of affliction,鈥� Collins said. 鈥淎lways remember that when we finally meet the Lord our health, our wealth, our power, our talent, our beauty or whatever are all useless. All we have on the day we meet Him is the love we鈥檝e given. That鱿鱼视频app all we have. All that you do and all that has been done in over 100 years of Catholic Family 鱿鱼视频app has been a way of making a bit of, much of, the heavenly city of Jerusalem present in the midst of this city of discord and affliction.鈥�