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The Visitation Parish Classifieds is a response to the need within the parish to provide a network within the parish of Visitation Catholic Church to help one another. A growing number of parishioners are faced with unemployment, and so we pray that this website provides the people of Visitation with a means to help those in need. Perhaps you are hiring or you know someone who is hiring…

This site also provides prayers, devotions, and literature aimed at aiding the unemployed in their journey.

 

 

In comparison with the casualties of industrial society in the past, unemployment today provokes new forms of economic marginalization, and the current crisis can only make this situation worse. Being out of work or dependent on public or private assistance for a prolonged period undermines the freedom and creativity of the person and his family and social relationships, causing great psychological and spiritual suffering. –Pope Benedict XVI, Caritas in veritate, 25

 

I know how critical the situation of many of the workers is. I express my solidarity to all those who are living in a worrying and precarious plight, to workers on redundancy pay or who have actually been discharged. May the wound of unemployment that afflicts this territory induce the public authorities, entrepreneurs and all who have means to seek, with the help of all, effective solutions to the employment crisis, creating employment in order to safeguard families… I would like to say to them: do not feel discouraged, dear friends, the Church does not abandon you!

-Pope Benedict XVI, Homily at Piazza Miranda in Cassino, Italy, May 24, 2009