Pastoral Care
Pastoral Care exists to provide for the exchange of ideas, mutual support, professional development, spiritual enrichment and to foster growth and development of the Ministry of Care throughout the Diocese. For more information, contact: Isabella Rice
Healing Through the Body of Christ Cancer Ministry
This ministry is part of Christ the King parish in Mesa. For more information, call (480) 884-4493 or send e-mail to MelissaV@CTK-catholic.org.
The Catholic Outreach Center
The Catholic Outreach Center is a program of the Foundation for Senior Living. For information on upcoming events and monthly activites, please click here.
St. Bernadette of Lourdes
Oldest of six children in a very poor family headed by Francois and Louise Casterot. On
February 11, 1858, around the time of her first Communion, she received a vision of the Virgin.
She received seventeen more in the next five months, and was led to a spring of healing
waters. She moved into a house with the sisters of Nevers at Lourdes where she lived, worked, and
learned to read and write. The sisters cared for the sick and indigent and at age 22 they admitted
Bernadette into their order since she was both. Always sick herself, and often mistreated by her
superiors, she died with a prayer fof Mary's aid. She is the patron saint of the sick.