'Members of the military and their families “require specific pastoral care, a solicitude that will make them feel the maternal closeness of the Church.”
“The role of the military chaplain is to accompany and support them in their journey, being for all of them a consoling and fraternal presence,” he said. “You can pour on the wounds of these persons the balm of the word of God, which relieves pain and infuses hope; and you can offer them the grace of the Eucharist and of reconciliation, which nourishes and regenerates the afflicted soul.”’
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