Dear Friends,
Here in Haiti, our flowers never faded or died, our trees were never naked or subject to the harsh winds of winter, nor did the birds ever stopped singing.
Maybe your flowers will soon return, popping up through the melting snow. Your trees will begin to show a hint of green before they are magnificently cloaked once again in full leaf and to those same trees will the robin soon return.
Together we rejoice, both in the tropics and to the north and south, that sun’s light and warmth, the flower’s beauty and the bird’s melody, tell of God’s glory and faithfulness!
We have had a different kind of chilling, a different kind of stilling of life. Here we have known the harsh illnesses of the body and the harsh winters of many hearts in mourning, and the harsher winters still of the stunned soul.
Yet at Easter we rejoice in the universal healing won by Our Lord’s resurrection. For the body, the mind, the spirit and for all of creation!
The signs of the Risen Christ are foretold. The blind will see, the lame will walk, the mute will sing.
We in Haiti rejoice for the children saved from the rubble of the earthquake, the devastation of cholera, the relentless poverty and homelessness.
We have seen the blind and the mute advance in our St. Joan School, where we set our sights high for these children, even seeking ways to help them learn computers and Internet!
The Fr. Wasson Angles of Light team strives to help children move beyond the horrible memories of January 12, 2010 and aim toward a brighter future.
The dedicated staff of Kay St. Germaine have worked tirelessly to fit and refit limbs, and to help children walk with help, toward their own homes and toward tomorrow.
Our hospital has introduced neurosurgery, saving small children who would otherwise be ravaged by the cruelty of hydrocephalus. Instead, they face a bright future thanks to a technique that is anatomical and avoids the use of shunts.
We have so many examples of God’s greatness at work. You have yours as well. With shared faith we give thanks to God.
At Easter and always we hold you in prayer, and wish every blessing from God for you and your families!
—Fr. Rick Frechette CP
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