Children, parents and relatives gathered at SS Peter & Pauls in Wakefield on Saturday 7th November for the Annual Mass and get together of adoptive and foster families.
The Mass celebrated by Canon Peter Maguire, a Trustee of Catholic Care and a former member of our adoption panel, was attended by over 50 people. The Canon spoke of the generosity of all those who took up the vocation of adoption when he said, "you have been through a unique experience that nobody else could understand". The children and young people led the readings and brought up the offertory gifts. Stephen Johnson played guitar and the retiring collection raised £109.74 for the nursery school in Peru we support.
After the Mass, a buffet tea was shared, which gave an opportunity for families to meet each other and share their own stories. This year the adoption team also introduced a story-teller to the afternoon and this was particularly successful with the younger children.
Those present were also keen to find out more about the future of the adoption agency which has been thrown into uncertainty by the change in legislation that has prevented Catholic Care from carrying out its recruitment and assessment work since January 2009 as the agency wished to restrict its beneficiaries to married and single people only. Mark Wiggin, Chief Executive, told families present that Catholic Care was seeking clarity in the law on the new legislation and no matter what the outcome; the charity would continue to support those families who had such a personal and important connection with the present adoption service.
The adoption team was also singled out for acknowledgement as they had all committed to seeing through the adoption process for their current families.
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Catholic Care acts to support those in need of its services, especiallly the weak and the vunerable and it acts as an advocate for those unable to represent themselves
The primary purpose of the agency is to foster and influence a vision of how people can live together in Christian charity, love and justice, by taking the "Caring Church into the Community
