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BSRCP Interview Report

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The Catholic Church offers people a place to enter in worship, work, dignity, love, and respect. The Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Parish prides itself on its sense of community and home to all who enter it. The Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Parish offers daily mass, weekly reconciliation, daily volunteer opportunities, and jobs as ways to welcome people into their community and even offer them a second chance at a normal life. The BSRCP features people from all walks of life making their community diverse, unique, and whole. The Catholic Church offers individuals from any aspect a second chance at life. Interviewing Anthony Barrasso, a person who frequents BSRCP every Sunday, I was awakened to how a parish can influence and change the …show more content…

When looking around The BSRCP you will see faces of individuals that seem to have known eachother since the parish’s beginning, this is due to the fact that many people began as volunteers of the Parish and overtime became well educated in how the Parish operates to be hired by The Diocese of Phoenix to work at the Parish. “I’ve never sought out a job here, I did seek many jobs, but not here… I don’t know if I would want to work here, it seems like a great place no doubt but I do like my breaks” (A. Barrasso, personal communication, February 14, 2018). Hiring people to the Church offers some individuals who truly just need an opportunity to prove themselves back on track. Working at BSRCP also provides troubled individuals a constant supervision, counselor, and caring environment; this is what Christ was all about, this can benefit others by allowing for constant reminders of why they should be and can be more like

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