A Mission for the Church

Despair seems so prevalent.  For whatever reason, a number of people are alone and lost, thinking no one cares.  No one stops.  No one hears.  They feel they need not be, and then wish they were not.  Maybe, along with everything else, it is the Church's mission to stop, to listen and care, to tell them they are not alone, they are loved (and not merely by God).