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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A virtual week-long solemnisation is underway astatine Catholic Charities of Baltimore to grant respective individuals for their exemplary work to neighbors successful request and 1 section justice-oriented pastor is among them.
“I effort to beryllium cognizant that each quality being is utterly unique,” said Father Ray Chase, Msgr. Arthur F. Valenzano Joyful Servant Award Recipient.
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It’s a mantra Father Ray Chase lives by.
“And due to the fact that of that, each brushwood with different idiosyncratic [but to] is an bonzer opportunity,” Father Chase said.
His faithful labour of emotion is wherefore he’s being recognized with this year’s Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano Joyful Servant Award.
“Monsignor creation was a Catholic Charities committee member. He was a rector of The Basilica. And helium saw the dignity successful each idiosyncratic and therefore, each idiosyncratic saw the goodness successful him,” said Bill McCarthy, Executive Director of Catholic Charities.
“When I was asked if I would judge this award, I said I would lone judge it with the knowing it’s much of a situation to maine successful presumption of what I should question to bash and strive to beryllium successful the enactment that I bash present astatine christianity charities,” said Father Chase.
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Father Chase began his ministry with Catholic Charities of Baltimore astir 40 years ago.
“Really walks the locomotion and truly ministers to everyone, overmuch similar Father Art,” said McCarthy.
“I primitively came to this bureau due to the fact that of my heavy affection for radical with developmental disabilities,” Father Chase explained. “I had this consciousness that each of these individuals careless of however important their disabilities were, that they were God’s children.”
His parish, St. Wincent De Paul is motivated by societal and radical justness work, and today, helium serves arsenic a chaplain astatine St. Elizabeth’s Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
The connection helium wants others to instrumentality distant from this honor: “I’m profoundly grateful for this [but to] I privation to beryllium truly clear, I’m nary antithetic than anybody other here. Everybody who is present has this recognition,” Father Chase said.
Catholic Charities of Baltimore has much than 80 programs successful Baltimore City successful 200 locations crossed the state. They service children and families experiencing homelessness and poverty, immigrants, individuals with intelligence disabilities and seniors.
Amy Kawata
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