Community Support Services
Community Support Services enriches the lives of family members across generations by promoting wellness, providing resources and building community connections.
Catholic Social Teaching
Life and Dignity of the Human Person
Call to Family, Community and Participation
Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
Impact
She was trying to drive to St. Louis Bertrand for mass Tuesday morning, but her GPS just wasn’t getting her there. Not from Louisville, Joan finally pulled over to the side of the road and said, “St. Michael, will you get me to the parish I need to be at today?” She looked up and noticed she was already there: Holy Name Catholic Church, the backyard neighbor of Catholic Charities’ Fourth Street location.
She went in and attended mass and, when she came out, saw Deacon Andy Heinsohn, Pam Pusty, and a few volunteers unloading a panel truck with food for the Father Jack Jones Food Pantry. The pantry is a joint venture of Catholic Charities; Holy Name and Holy Trinity Catholic churches; and, of course, Dare to Care.
The Latinx woman pulled Pam aside and said, “I need to donate to you.” After a brief conversation, Joan reached into her wallet, pulled out a $100 bill, and gave it to Pam for the food pantry.
That’s when she told Pam that she is from Lexington. The wife of a physician, she weekly drives a client to Louisville and, while here, attends mass. Realizing that she was led to Holy Name and the food pantry, she “just knew” that she “had to donate.”
That’s food for the body and for the soul.
Facts and Figures
The need at the Food pantry is growing, in August we served 2374 people, both families and individuals.
Patron Saint
Saint Louis IX of France was renowned for his charity. “The peace and blessings of the realm come to us through the poor,” he would say. Beggars were fed from his table; he ate their leavings, washed their feet, ministered to the wants of the lepers, and daily fed over one hundred poor. He founded many hospitals and houses: the House of the Felles-Dieu for reformed prostitutes, the Quinze-Vingt for 300 blind men (1254), as well as hospitals at Pontoise, Vernon, Compiégne.