<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Also I want to say thk you, Paul, and especially re your long dedication to these communities. But your "ground up" insight reminded me of my Mom. My family spent time growing up in Mexico in the 60's. And it was a time of conflict and American intervention in Latin America. My Mom railed against it and always said solutions must be local and ground up. Sixty years later and ... we continue this intervention mindset. We are (still) missing some key elements in our paradigms. Compassion, respect, trust or something ...</div></div><div>Best wishes.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill.</div><div dir="ltr">c 416-708-6677<br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 9:07 PM Mary Lou Jorgensen-Bacher via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px">Paul, </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px">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. </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div dir="ltr">There was once a black man in the Jesuits with whom I had a <font color="#cd232c" style="font-weight:bold">VERY </font><font size="2"><b>good experience with</b> in the 1980's. (I can't remember his name - I had a brain haemorrhage, 1974.) But it was <font color="#fdef2b" style="background-color:rgb(205,35,44)"><b>SO VERY</b></font> GOOD! These black men are hell-bent on having a HARD TIME for all of the Haitians.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">PRAY for them. That is<b> all </b>that I can say. Pray, PRAY, <b>PRAY, </b><font color="#cd232c" style="background-color:rgb(253,248,105);font-weight:bold">PRAY</font><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">!!!!</font></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px" dir="ltr">Mary Lou Jorgensen-Bacher</div><div style="font-size:13px" dir="ltr">Keeper of the Flame<br></div></div>
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On Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 03:07:48 p.m. EDT, Tina Neves via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div><div id="m_5807173562782903023ydp5bb9f4b1yiv1725014642"><div><div>Thank you Paul<div>It gives me deep heart pain...</div></div><br clear="none"><div><div id="m_5807173562782903023ydp5bb9f4b1yiv1725014642yqtfd81054"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 11, 2024, 2:27 PM Paul M via Sundaycommunity <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><img src="cid:ii_18e35bebaf0e06a5c731" style="max-width: 800px; width: 100%;"></div>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. </div><div>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. </div><div>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.</div><div>Any Haitians that can get out are trying to go to the DR where there are problems with Haitians. </div><div>So, another sad situation in the world that needs prayers and attention </div><div>Paul<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">Sent from Gmail Mobile</div></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 1:51 PM sylvia skrepichuk via Sundaycommunity <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Date: 2024-03-11 1:36 p.m. (GMT-05:00) </div>
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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.<br clear="none">
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May peace be achieved in all of creation<br clear="none">
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Que se logre la paz en toda la creación<br clear="none">
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Se pou lapè rive nan tout kreyasyon an<br clear="none">
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ليحل السلام في الخليقة كلها<br clear="none">
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יהי רצון שיושג שלום בכל הבריאה<br clear="none">
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