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The Tragedy of Haiti is Still With Us

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Cholera is now an epidemic.

We all held our breath as the news reported that Tropical Storm Emily was heading for Haiti.

Thankfully, the winds were not at hurricane level, but the storm dropped a great deal of rain on this already suffering country.  One of the casualties of the rain was a cholera treatment center.

Cholera in Haiti has reached epidemic proportions and the time to help is now.

A suffering child can receive life saving treatment for as little as $22.  This includes administering the drug azithromycin as well as hydration IV fluids.  A very small price to pay when the life of a helpless, suffering child is at stake.

Help us today.  Simply go to the donation page and make your gift to save the life of a child for as little as $22.  Or help save that child’s mother for an additional gift of $20.

Whatever you decide to give, we are very grateful.  Our Father Rick Frechette is in Haiti, working tirelessly to bring help and hope to the many who still suffer…who remain without permanent homes…who cannot find enough food to eat.   Now that the spread of cholera is almost out of control, we need to give him the supplies and the support necessary to help.

We are counting on you…please give whatever you can, but make your gift today.

Please make checks payable to PASSIONIST MISSIONARIES.

Passionist Missionaries Inc.
526 Monastery Place
Union City NJ 07087-3398
Tel: 888/806-6606
E-mail: AGardiner@cpprov.org

Donate on-line by clicking the button below.
The Donate Now button will redirect you to Caring Habits, Inc. (CHI) which is the credit card processing company for The Passionist Missionaries website.

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Commencement Address by Fr. Rick Frechette at Marywood University

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Commencement address by Reverend Rick Frechette, C.P, at Marywood University on May 8, 2011 at Marwood University, as well as acknowledgements by Sister Anne Munley, IHM, Ph.D.

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The Passionist Missionaries’ Annual Golf Classic

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Dear Friends,

I am so pleased to tell you about the Hank Finelli Annual Golf Classic on Thursday, May 26, 2011, that benefits the Passionist Missionaries. For the last several years, Hank has generously donated his course for our use, and his partnership with us helps to raise funds for our ministries.

By supporting this event, you too, will join with us in reaching out to the poor and suffering in Jamaica, West Indies, Honduras, Haiti, and right here in the United States.

Your support also helps us to care for our retired, elderly and infirm priests and brothers who have dedicated a lifetime in serving God’s people.  They are the cornerstone on which our Community was founded and it is our responsibility to care for them with dignity and grace.

The Passionist Community can be found in retreat centers, parishes, schools, and wherever there is a need to care for our brothers and sisters.

I encourage you to help us in any way you can.  Please encourage friends and family to join you in supporting our ministry.

See you on the links!

Fr. Robert Joerger, C.P.

Read more about the Golf Outing and Sponsorship Opportunities

Register to play in the Golf Outing

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Universal Healing

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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

Please consider a donation to help the Passionists in their ministry to people living in poverty: Please make checks payable to PASSIONIST MISSIONARIES.

Passionist Missionaries Inc.
526 Monastery Place
Union City NJ 07087-3398
Tel: 888/806-6606
E-mail: AGardiner@cpprov.org

Donate on-line by clicking the button below.
The Donate Now button will redirect you to Caring Habits, Inc. (CHI) which is the credit card processing company for The Passionist Missionaries website.


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Francisville – New Work City

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Here’s a video about Francisville, a project sponsored by NPH Italy – Fondazione Francesca Rava under the direction of Passionist Father Rick Frechette.

The project seeks to:

  • Provide jobs and training to people with disabilities and to boys and girls once out of the orphanages and the street schools of Port au Prince — Haiti,
  • Create sustainability, in order for the project to be able to maintain itself. The income could be also useful to help the development of other charity activities and Father Rick’s relief activities like construction, water delivery, “tap tap” transportation service,
  • Empower human resources by creating a professional school which will form secondary level students with high standards and the possibility to get diplomas recognized abroad. The idea is to guarantee access to foreign universities in Europe and USA.
  • At the ?training center people are trained “on the job” Programs include: mechanical workshop, bakery (bread and pizza), pasta maker, soap factory, leather (for sandals, bags and belts), and others.
  • Francisville will be visited by the project “OUT OF THE MUD” on weekends, by the children coming from the street schools in the slums, so that they can realize what they can achieve and how their future can be brighter out of the mud and violence of the slums. Father Rick had this idea to inspire the orphans to work toward a better future, by showing them that they could be the next students of the school in Francisville.
  • Hopefully, the Francisville project will be soon be relocated to a new campus in an area of 20.000 squared meters in Tabarre, in the outskirts of Port Au Prince — Haiti. There, Francisville will create all possible synergies with the nearby Saint Damien Children’s Hospital and Kay Germain rehabilitation center, in terms of manpower, utilities, services and security.

Please consider a donation to help the Passionists in their ministry to people living in poverty: Please make checks payable to PASSIONIST MISSIONARIES.

Passionist Missionaries Inc.
526 Monastery Place
Union City NJ 07087-3398
Tel: 888/806-6606
E-mail: AGardiner@cpprov.org

Donate on-line by clicking the button below.
The Donate Now button will redirect you to Caring Habits, Inc. (CHI) which is the credit card processing company for The Passionist Missionaries website.


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