I am so glad the Buffalo News has focused on a couple of the places in the neighborhood this week that work to make the lives better for people…without them, a lot of people would be forgotten…God bless them for all they do!
From the Buffalo News…
Twenty-four hours after St. Adalbert’s School closed in 1985, the Response to Love Center was born.
And for the last 25 years, three Felician sisters have been serving the “economically deprived, spiritually poor, emotionally battered, the isolated, wounded and broken” from the Kosciuszko Street building on Buffalo’s East Side.
Sister Mary Catherine Raczkowski is in charge of the youth program and the baby ministry, while Sister Mary Rose Szymanski works in the intake department and is one of the first people seen by new clients when they come for help.
But the women are extending their reach to include “the forgotten people who have not come forward,” said Sister Mary Johnice Rzadkiewicz, the center’s longtime director.
This is the “new direction” of the Catholic Church and the Western New York Holiday Partnership, to respond to all in need, Rzadkiewicz said. Read full story in the Buffalo News—>
