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Tue Mar 12 17:07:22 PDT 2024

Paul,  
IT does fill me with deep pain in my heart as well.  Thank YOU for having had the experiences that you had in HAITI, and for your GOODness in having had them.  
There was once a black man in the Jesuits with whom I had a VERY good experience with in the 1980's.  (I can't remember his name - I had a brain haemorrhage, 1974.)  But it was SO VERY GOOD!  These black men are hell-bent on having a HARD TIME for all of the Haitians.
PRAY for them.  That is all that I can say.  Pray, PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!!!!
Mary Lou Jorgensen-BacherKeeper of the Flame

    On Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 03:07:48 p.m. EDT, Tina Neves via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:  

 Thank you PaulIt gives me deep heart pain...
On Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:27 PM Paul M via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

I was in Haiti in 2007 and though it had troubles then, I felt it had more potential than Papua New Guinea where I had been. Then, the tragedy of the January 12, 2010 earthquake, followed by cholera etc. set the country back again. The Spiritans in TransCanada sent a good deal of help to rebuild our huge school in Port Au Prince - College St. Martial (built 1865)  - a K-12 school. This was a wonderful school but was 3/4 destroyed by the earthquake. Slowly, it reopened in tents, then temp class rooms,  and eventually things were getting back to normal. I visited Haiti again in 2017, and was so hopeful about the school and also our rural ministries. However, the very first night I was there, one could sense warning signs. The Superior took me and another Spiritan out but every so often, you could hear gunfire (gangs). We were told we should head back soon. There were also times when the Spiritans from Haiti had to hunker down in the school compound or a parish for a few nights in a row. That was back in 2017 and it has gotten progressively worse. I was in touch monthly with the Superior and the Bursar up until the end of 2021 but not really in the loop now due to personnel changes. So sad to see a failed state. More intervention or interference from outside countries at this stage will probably do more harm than good. The UN peacekeeping force that was there before was not only ineffective but also heavily disliked. I can’t believe Kenya is going to send troops who of course can’t speak French. Some solution will have to come from the ground up- not be imposed. Compromise must be reached. But at this stage, I truly believe Haiti is only going to get worse- complete breakdown of infrastructure and resultant disease, hunger, death. The rural communities of course are much better off than Port Au Prince, but even they are dependent on some resources from some sort of functioning government.Any Haitians that can get out are trying to go to the DR  where there are problems with Haitians. So, another sad situation in the world that needs prayers and attention Paul

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 1:51 PM sylvia skrepichuk via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

Thanks Dean

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-------- Original message --------From: Dean Riley via Sundaycommunity <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca>Date: 2024-03-11 1:36 p.m. (GMT-05:00) To: Sunday Community <sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> Cc: Dean Riley <riley234 at gmail.com> Subject: [Sundaycommunity] (no subject) 

Greetings. For those of you interested in understanding the situation as it is unravelling in Haiti… please take a look at this article that appeared on the BBC website today. Around our world, the dream of real peace & justice is becoming ever more elusive.

Dean. 

May peace be achieved in all of creation

Que se logre la paz en toda la creación

Se pou lapè rive nan tout kreyasyon an

ليحل السلام في الخليقة كلها

יהי רצון שיושג שלום בכל הבריאה

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