Archbishop of Haiti among victims

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Teelynn said:
I donated to the Catholic Relief Services. Their website is: www.crs.org Like a lot of us, didn’t have a lot to send, but have heard it said if everyone gave just $5 it would amount to a ton of money.

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Thanks, Teelynn, for the link.

Eternal rest to the dead, God’s grace and our compassion to the living.
 
One very quick and easy way to send help is to text the word “Haiti” to 90999

this will automatically donate $10.00 to the American Red Cross. It will be charged to your phone bill. You will get a request to confirm with Yes. It takes about 20 seconds (it took me about 3 minutes because I never send txt messages.)

The Catholic Relief Service and the American Red Cross are always the first to respond to any major disaster. CRS has already sent 10 million dollars in aid to Haiti and the Red Cross is already in Haiti respond to folks with medical attention.

Haiti is 80% Catholic ! and is the poorest country in the Americas, it needs our help now.
 
katrntogo said:
Has anyone heard of any Catholic groups sending medical personnel or others to help? I don’t have much money to contribute but would be willing to go to help.
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Yes.

I am a retired US Air Force Chief Master Sergeant. A fellow retired Chief and his wife are in a parish in Florida that has an ongoing mission to a parish in Haiti. They have been there at least 6 times, most recently last month. Here is the basic information:

HOLY NAME OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

EARTHQUAKE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HAITI

***HEARTS OUT TO HAITI MISSION ***

CHECKS PAYABLE TO**:**HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH
On the Memo Line, put: HEARTS OUT TO HAITI

MAIL TO**: **HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH
3050 N. HWY A1A
INDIALANTIC, FL 32903
TEL: 321-773-2783

**THE HAITI MISSION IS A 501 C (3) CHARITY **

ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE

**ALL MONIES GO DIRECTLY TO THE HAITIAN PEOPLE **

AND ARE NOT USED ON ADVERTISEMENTS OR SALARIES
 
Here is the E-mail that Chief Master Sergeant Jim Lawler sent me with the address above:

Hi!

The attached email was received by me this morning. It came from Ginette Domond who was the female Haitian Interpreter on my Mission Trip to Haiti last month.

Last night we had a regularly scheduled meeting for the Haiti Mission Group at our Parish. Of course, the meeting was regularly scheduled, the agenda was all new. All we talked about was the Earthquake, what we know, what we can do, what we should do, etc.

Mary Ann and Jim Loafman (our Parish Haiti Team Leaders) and Lamonthe Lormier (a Haitian immigrant from the local area) are going down to Haiti on January 26. They are intentionally waiting two weeks to let all the major relief efforts have a chance to get back to some semblance of order so they do not fly into an area of utter chaos. Anyway, they will attempt to drive up to the Parish in Morne-a-Chandelle which is very close to the Epicenter and to our Sister Parish in Les Palmes. We suspect that Fr. Petit and the people of Morne-a-Chandelle parish (I did not go there last month, but Carol has been there twice) may all be casualties since the actual epicenter is less than five miles from their area. Jim and Mary Ann did go there in November to pass out the worm pills before our team arrived in Haiti.

Jim and Mary Ann did receive an email yesterday from Fr. Johnson the Pastor at Les Palmes which they read at the meeting last night. It was a fairly short email, but, he wrote there is heavy damage there. The church is collapsed - there were five deaths in that immediate vicinity of the church and rectory. He said the kindergarten building is down and the High School and the Rectory are damaged (have cracks) - we don’t know how bad they are, however, he did say that he and the Associate Pastor are sleeping out side the Rectory as it is shaking with each aftershock and they are not sure of the structural stability.

That’s all we know now about the areas we serve.

***The Second attachment is a flyer we are putting up on our Parish Website. 100% of the money donated to the Haiti Mission will go to Haiti. We have no expenses because we are mostly volunteers. The costs associated with collecting, counting, etc., are picked up by our Parish Staff from the weekly collection - they are included as part of the operating fund of the Parish so that all the Haiti donations are in fact Haiti donations. If you want to know where a good place to donate is - this is one. Currently we can only accept Checks, we’re looking into Pay Pal and Credit Cards - but that may not happen. ***
However, I also believe Catholic Relief Services and the Red Cross are good places too - and there are probably others. But, they do have overhead costs and not all the money will go to the charity for which it was donated. However, they have such large fundraising capability, they can do so much more than our Parish can to help. But, they will also concentrate their efforts in Port-au-Prince - the big population center. They never went up into the hills during the hurricane relief efforts a couple years ago. We will go to the mountain communities.
Thanks,
*Jim *
 
Again, from a retired Chief Master Sergeant:

Here are two other pictures taken when I was done there in December (both from Tempy Croft’s camera), but not used in my Blog - one exterior view, one interior view. The third photo was taken today by Fr. Johnson - Same Church!

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Note: This was taken at about the same spot as the first picture.
 
I guess the photos cannot be seen.

Photo One: Outside view of Church before the quake last month.
Photo Two: Inside with parishoners
Photo Three Outside view from same angle after quake. The wall is completely down and the roof is tilted, touching the ground. The church is completely destroyed.

I won’t share personal details, but Jim and Carol Lawler are solid, very solid Catholics. If you knew them, you’d be inspired.
 
GratefulFred said:
I guess the photos cannot be seen.

Photo One: Outside view of Church before the quake last month.
Photo Two: Inside with parishoners
Photo Three Outside view from same angle after quake. The wall is completely down and the roof is tilted, touching the ground. The church is completely destroyed.

I won’t share personal details, but Jim and Carol Lawler are solid, very solid Catholics. If you knew them, you’d be inspired.
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Do you have direct links to the photos? I would love to see them.

~Liza
 
Hopefully the pictures can be seen now.

Sent: 1/14/2010 6:38:34 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
Subj: Notre Dame le Presentation in Les Palmes, Haiti

Hi,

Look at some of the pictures from my blog about Haiti - across the top - the opening banner has two churches on both ends. Both Churches destroyed. If you lost the link, here it is again: thelawlers.net/Haiti/

In the summary, I have another copy of the same picture at the same size as the photos included in this email.

Here are two other pictures taken when I was done there in December (both from Tempy Croft’s camera), but not used in my Blog - one exterior view, one interior view. The third photo was taken today (Jan 14, 2010) by Fr. Johnson - Same Church!
 
I’m glad you were able to get the photos posted! 🙂

What an amazing contrast to see those before and after photos. It must be very hard for you to see the country devistated like that.

Can you even imagine waking up one morning and everything was gone?

Praying for them all daily.

~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
I’m glad you were able to get the photos posted! 🙂

What an amazing contrast to see those before and after photos. It must be very hard for you to see the country devistated like that.

Can you even imagine waking up one morning and everything was gone?

Praying for them all daily.

~Liza
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We don’t like to, but we have to imagine how we would feel if disaster hit us personally. We would hope others would come to our aid in our grief.

Are we ready to meet God if we die suddenly? Will we trust in God in our grief? Do we remember how to pray? WIll we think to pray?

It is very difficult when a disaster hits us personally.

What so ever you do to the least of My brothers, that you do unto Me.
 
I have a friend who started on the meddical missions in '04. Hers started in '06 Well I called her but have not heard from her. She has documented her missions each time, lots of pictures, and she kept a journal. She had an adopted son their she was supporting for him to attend college. She is not Catholic but when I showed her Mother Teresa movie she said that was her hospital. The hospital cared for abonded babies. She was much impressed. Has anyone heard if the hospital was destroyed? . I pray she is OK. what will happen now? To all those people? So sad 😦
 
GratefulFred said:
Yes.

I am a retired US Air Force Chief Master Sergeant. A fellow retired Chief and his wife are in a parish in Florida that has an ongoing mission to a parish in Haiti. They have been there at least 6 times, most recently last month. Here is the basic information:

HOLY NAME OF JESUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

EARTHQUAKE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR HAITI

***HEARTS OUT TO HAITI MISSION ***

CHECKS PAYABLE TO**:**HOLY NAME OF JESUS PARISH
On the Memo Line, put: HEARTS OUT TO HAITI

MAIL TO**: **HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH
3050 N. HWY A1A
INDIALANTIC, FL 32903
TEL: 321-773-2783

**THE HAITI MISSION IS A 501 C (3) CHARITY **

ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE

**ALL MONIES GO DIRECTLY TO THE HAITIAN PEOPLE **

AND ARE NOT USED ON ADVERTISEMENTS OR SALARIES
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I think all donations from Catholics should go to the CC. the Church will take care of the people. plus since the Churches were destroyed they are going to need a lot of help to rebuild. i dont think the red cross is going to help rebuild the CC.
 
lizaanne said:
Several hospitals have been destroyed.

~Liza
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I thought I heard that only 2 hospitals were left ok, but I don’t know which ones. If I hear from anyone I will let you know. I still haven’t heard from my friend. I went to her work but she wasn’t there, they told me she had not planned on going to Haiti this time. She hears from a doctor once a month to keep in contact with her sponsor child. I’m thinking she is ok. But her sponsor child had been in the college there so that may end up being bad news.

Mother Teresa’s hospital had a thousand babies in it, as they are dropped off every day by the gate. Nearly 5 to 10 babies a day die from malnutrition. The entire thing is sad but I think it is a lot of the fault of the government. My friend said customs many times will not let supplies into the country, she having been there first hand I tend to believe her, no matter how much the news says the government co-operates. Who can we believe? 😦
 
Hello Everyone:
Everybody is saying the Archbishop (Haiti).
What’s his name?

Paul Preston
Los Angeles
 
Paul_Preston said:
Hello Everyone:
Everybody is saying the Archbishop (Haiti).
What’s his name?

Paul Preston
Los Angeles
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The Archbishop of Port-au-Prince (Haiti has another Archdiocese, Cap-Haïtien) was Monsigneur Joseph Serge Miot, 63.

He was found in the rubble and has been buried. The Vicar General and ~100 seminarians are still missing at that spot, according to our diocesan newletter.
 
I confess (pun intended) that I belief this is an act foretold in Revelation.

Whether this act of God’s wrath was fallen upon the Catholics of Haiti or the practitioners (50% of the 9 million people) of voodoo in the area.

Not trying to be offensive, but isn’t it fishy that every Catholic building was destroyed and the archbishop was killed?

I hope I am not the first person to inform you of this. Not trying to break any rules here but there’s no appropriate way of phrasing this.
 
Smart30 said:
I confess (pun intended) that I belief this is an act foretold in Revelation.

Whether this act of God’s wrath was fallen upon the Catholics of Haiti or the practitioners (50% of the 9 million people) of voodoo in the area.

Not trying to be offensive, but isn’t it fishy that every Catholic building was destroyed and the archbishop was killed?

I hope I am not the first person to inform you of this. Not trying to break any rules here but there’s no appropriate way of phrasing this.
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I think there’s a verse in the Bible where it talks about there being rain on both the wicked and the righteous. The epicenter of the 1994 L.A. quake was centered in a district well known for pornography.

That’s one of the results of original sin. Death affects both the righteous and the wicked.
 
LRThunder said:
I think there’s a verse in the Bible where it talks about there being rain on both the wicked and the righteous. The epicenter of the 1994 L.A. quake was centered in a district well known for pornography.

That’s one of the results of original sin. Death affects both the righteous and the wicked.
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God’s wrath does not affect the elect (the righteous). When did God punish Abraham?

Death of course is the result of the Fall.

Are you admitting there is no way of being washed from original sin without the blood of Christ in the next?
 
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