Catholic Outlook Magazine Ordinary Time Spring Edition 2022
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Looking Deeper<br />
You are invited<br />
The Mass and prayers for the<br />
deceased clergy in the Diocese of<br />
Parramatta commence at<br />
10.30am<br />
25 November <strong>2022</strong><br />
St Bernadette’s Parish,<br />
Castle Hill.<br />
You are invited to attend and give<br />
your gift of prayer to those whose<br />
lives were dedicated to bringing<br />
us all closer to Christ. <br />
Bishop Vincent celebrates All Souls Mass in November<br />
2020 at the St Francis Chapel in St Patrick’s Cemetery,<br />
Parramatta. Image: Diocese of Parramatta<br />
SUPPORT<br />
Religious Sisters<br />
Photo © ACN International<br />
Sister Rita Kurochkina was born<br />
in Kazakhstan and joined the order<br />
of the Sisters of the Immaculate<br />
Conception of the Blessed Virgin<br />
Mary, which was founded in Poland in<br />
the 1850s to support both the spiritual<br />
and the intellectual formation of<br />
women and girls.<br />
To this day, the congregation is<br />
primarily active in Poland, but<br />
can also be found in a number of<br />
Eastern European countries, such<br />
as Kazakhstan. The religious sisters<br />
run schools, kindergartens, and<br />
children’s homes, teach catechesis<br />
in parishes and give religious<br />
instruction at public schools, take<br />
care of poor children and support<br />
impoverished families. They provide<br />
pastoral care to prisoners and also<br />
organise retreats.<br />
Three sisters, all of them born in<br />
Kazakhstan, work in the house<br />
of St. Clara. They currently take<br />
care of 18 children with difficult<br />
family situations. Sister Rita says,<br />
“Spiritually, the communist system<br />
devastated the people in this<br />
country. Many stopped believing in<br />
God, which led to addiction problems<br />
and dysfunctional families. And the<br />
children suffer the consequences.<br />
The children who come to us have<br />
experienced trauma and tragedy.”<br />
ACN helps one in every 34 of the<br />
630,099 religious Sisters in the<br />
world today! Can you help provide<br />
subsistence aid to religious sisters in<br />
countries throughout the world so they<br />
can continue to live their vocation<br />
and help keep the faith alive through<br />
their physical and spiritual aid?<br />
To watch a video on Sr Rita and the<br />
Sisters and to make<br />
a donation visit<br />
www.aidtochuch.<br />
org/helpsisters or<br />
scan the QR Code.<br />
Founded in 1947, ACN is the only international<br />
<strong>Catholic</strong> Charity dedicated to the pastoral<br />
support of suffering and persecuted Christians.
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