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Our Medical Team Visit will be in July 2010

Click here to see the slide show of the Medical Team Visit

Presentation about Medical Team Visit by Monica Staudt

Journal Haiti Medical Team by Monica Staudt

Summation about the Medical Team Visit By George

Message to our Sister Parish by Fr. Hernandez

Journal by Monica Siemens

Message from Deacon Jerry Temeyer

  Click Here to Read Haiti Report

Messages from Fr. Dorléan
April 14, 2010
Dear Friends in Iowa,
It is with great joy that I write to you this morning to thank you with all my heart for your prayers, your friendship and your dedication to the children and the parish of Anse Rouge. For the moment, we are really in need because Anse Rouge at the present time the area is going through a huge drought that even animals are not spared, they died from lack of food and water. The rain has not fall for several months. This year there will be no harvest as usual. Misery calls us and makes us the war between life and death. May the God of Jesus Christ help us through you!
Always with Christ,
Father Dorléan

A NOTE FROM FR. DORLEAN
Dear friends in Christ,
Through this letter, I proclaim to you the Good News: Our Lord Jesus Christ is Risen .... Alleluia!
On behalf of the entire community of Anse-Rouge,
I wish you a Happy Easter in the continuity of the love of our Lord
who continues to express His love for us despite of our sinfulness.
May God bless you! In the Risen Christ!
Always with Christ,
Father Dorléan

An e-mail Message from Fr. Dorlean

March 21, 2010
Dear Father Hernandez,
I'm glad to hear that the Medical Team chose to visit us next July 2010. A big thank you for this decision and now I will wait for confirmation of the date. I wish you a happy Easter! May God's special blessing be upon you, your community and your family!
Always with Christ,
Father Dorléan

Report About Our Cluster Support to Anse Rouge, Haiti By Monica Staudt

Visit the USA Catholic Conference of Bishops: Official Visit to Haiti

Click here to hear the Ecumenical Prayer Service

We are so grateful for your prayers and financial support for the medical visit on February 3-10, 2010 and for believing in helping those less fortunate than us in our sister Parish Our Lady of the Assumption. Because of the present tragedy in Haiti, our medical visit has been postponed to a later date. Thanks!!!

Message to Our Sister Parish from Fr. Nils & Deacon Jerry. Message was delivered on Aug 16, 2009.
 
Message to the Cluter Parishes August 9, 2009.


Click here to hear in two parts the Mass and Message to Our Sister Parish last Sunday, August 16, 2009.

Fr. Nils Hernandez and Deacon Jerry Temeyer will be visiting our Sister Parish for the Patroness Feast of Our Lady of the Assumption, August 13-18, 2009. Please pray for them for a safe visit.

WHY HAITI?

Many have asked, "Why are we involved in Haiti?"

The answer can be best summed up in the words of murdered Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, from San Salvador, El Salvador Central Ameica.

Words of the Martyr Most Rev. Oscar Romero

"It helps now and then, to step back and take the long view.

The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts; it is even beyond our vision.

We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work.

Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.

No statement says all that could be said.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

No confession brings perfection, no pastoral visit brings wholeness

No program accomplishes the Church's mission

No set of goals and objectives includes everything

This is what we are about. We plant seeds that one day will grow.

We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.

We lay foundations that will need further development.

We provide yeast that produces efforts far beyond our capabilities.

We cannot do everything and there is a sense of liberation in that.

This enables us to do something and to do it very well.

It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.

We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.

We are workers, not master builders,

ministers not Messiahs.

We are prophets of a future not our own.

Amen"

 

Please double click here for updates about the official visit to Our Sister Parish in Anse Rouge, Haiti August 13-18.
See Slide Pictures for our Pastoral Visit to Our Sister Parish Our Lady of the Assumption, Anse Rouge, Haiti, August 13-18, 2009

Fr. Dorlean Paul-Henry, present pastor of our Sister Parish in Anse Rouge, Haiti, visited our Cluster Parishes November 12-18, 2008.

 

Message from Fr. Paul-Henry Dorlean, pastor of our Sister Parish in Haiti. 

“Le Seigneur a jeté son regard compatissant sur son humble serviteur.  Il a fait pour nous des merveilles, saint est son nom ».  St Luke « The Lord has looked upon his humble servant with compassion.  He has performed wonders for us, holy is his name.”  St Luke

Rev. Father Hernandez, Brothers and Sisters of the parish of St. John, St. Francis and Sacred Heart, it is with joy and gratitude that I have come to celebrate with you, on this 33^rd Sunday of ordinary time, the marvels that God has been able to give, through you, to benefit his sons and daughters who live in Anse-Rouge in particularly difficult and dehumanizing conditions.  I salute you in this work of real and concrete solidarity established between the Iowa parish and the parish Notre-Dame de l’Assomption d’Anse-Rouge.  The parish de l’Assomption presents to you through me its sincere greetings: Shalom, that the peace of God be with you all.

I am Father Paul-Henry Dorlean, parish priest of Anse-Rouge.  I want to begin by thanking you for having invited me to come here.  Each Sunday at Anse-Rouge we have special prayers for you and for your country. Thank you for your welcome and your multilayered support shown so many times through your great generosity, and for such interest given to the parish de l’Assomption of Anse-Rouge. I want to thank you in a very special way for all that you have achieved in collaboration with my fellow priest, Father Murat Dorcent.  A very special and well-earned  thank you for the support of the construction of the parochial School Notre Dame de l’Assomption; equal thanks for the help given to the students and to the payroll for the teachers.  Thanks to you, the teachers’ situation has improved and they are better disposed to give a quality education to the students who are entrusted to them.  In Haiti, the misery is visible.  Some children eat unripe fruit, while others have to be content eating dirt and clay from the ground.  It is for this reason that hunger constitutes the major obstacle for a child’s growth and development.  However, we must recognize that, thanks to all that you do, the parish Church has been able to work to improve the material conditions of existence for our youth.  We have created several small jobs such as: cooks at the schools, teachers, custodians in the establishments, secretaries for the schools, and construction workers.  Hope is reborn in the hearts of the children thanks to you.  This is why I hold out my heart and my hands to you, that you continue this beautiful, highly humanitarian and profoundly evangelic enterprise.

Dear friends of the parishes of St John, Sacred Heart and St Francis: The parish Notre Dame de l’Assomption d’Anse-Rouge, through me, presents to you its congratulations and its sincere gratitude for the very precious financial support that you have successfully brought to our parish work.  It is for me a great pleasure as pastor of that parish to keep you informed of the present situation in which we live.

1.  Anse-Rouge is essentially a rural zone.  It is situated in an arid region of the department.  The soil is a completely unproductive desert area.  The zone suffers from a total lack of water, which renders it of little value.  On the economic scale this zone has nothing to offer.

2.  The two principal economic activities of the zone are fishing and salt production.  The fishermen do not have real fishing boats.  They only have small sailboats which offer neither security nor great resistance from the wind. Their lives are quite uncertain.

3. As for the salt industry, it is very bad.  The conditions are very poor and the turbulent waters of the hurricanes often come to destroy the production.  In this context, the people of the zone are totally tortured by these miseries which leave visible and heart wrenching traces on their faces.  In our diocese many people have died, or disappeared by the floods, some even being buried in the mud.  Parents have lost their children and children have lost their two parents.

4. The future of our children is very uncertain because they can not learn a profession or benefit from a professional formation.  This plunges them into a life of promiscuity leading towards drugs, alcohol, delinquency and prostitution.

5. On a social scale, in Anse-Rouge, there is no drinkable water, no roads, no well-equipped hospitals, no electricity, and no professional center; in short, Anse-Rouge lacks pretty much everything.  The young are fatally condemned to continue the cycle of misery led by their parents. The children are the most vulnerable: hit hard by hunger since birth, they are susceptible to all kinds of sicknesses from an early age on.  They suffer from tooth decay due to the lack of fresh water.  Dangerous epidemics such as typhoid, malaria and tuberculosis hit them regularly.  They are therefore without hope and without a future.

6.  On a religious scale, we have a rather lively community.  In spite of their misery, people have kept the apostolic faith.  They are dedicated to the teaching of the church, to the liturgical celebrations and to the fraternal charity.  The parish has 8 chapels comprised of around 20,000 Catholics.

Sector of Education

7. In poor countries and particularly in Haiti, the church has always stepped in and done what the State should be doing regarding education.  This is why, some parochial schools, destined to teach to the poor children, are incorporated into the parishes.  Here in Anse-Rouge, we have 5 parochial schools, however, the parents are often unable, given their difficult economic situation, to pay their small annual contribution, which makes it very difficult to come up with the money to pay the teachers, to buy the didactic materials and food.  We would be very happy having sponsors for some of these very needy children in Anse-Rouge.  It would only be $150 to sponsor one child a year.  If you accept to do this, I would send you a photo of the child you are sponsoring.  This would give a child a much more certain tomorrow.  Regardless, I continue to count on your generosity.

The Food Program

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the assistance brought to the needy children of our parochial schools.  With your support I count on starting a school lunch program.  Poorly nourished children cannot do well in school.  Some fall asleep, others are weak and are stricken with lung ailments.  We need to save the children and offer them at least one hot dish a day.  This would also have other immediate results: greater participation in school, less sicknesses and lower infant death rates.  There would be, as well, a considerable reduction in the cases wherein their misery forces them to leave school in the middle of the year.  This population lives in total misery.  Help us to come to the aid of this unfortunate population today so that they are able to better help themselves in the future.

Message of Hope:

Well-loved Brothers and Sisters, the world of today is laden with multiple contradictions which provoke anguish and fear.  Negative events wreak havoc on the entire world.  The world everywhere is ravaged by natural disasters.  It is in the context of this sentiment that St Mark invites us to read the signs when the light of Christ returns.  These events, far from drowning our hope, must help us to better regain strength, to correct our errors and the incoherencies of our lives, and to make a choice according to our baptismal promise.  We have, therefore, the prophetic engagement to fight for the construction of a more humane and fraternal world.  Understand that through your help to the poor churches, you contribute directly to the spread of the gospel and to the betterment of the conditions of life of these sons and daughters of God throughout the world.  It is a grace and a benediction to consecrate a part of one’s revenues for the cause of the gospel.   May it always be so.  Let us work together for unity and peace for all.  May God bless America; may He give you yet another bountiful harvest; may He protect your families and may He be able to take away your worries and troubles through His protective presence today and always.  Amen!

 

 

 

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Haiti Cluster Committee for our Sister Parish    Haiti Cluster Committee   Photos taken of our Sister Parish: Our Lady of the Assumption in Anse Rouge, Haiti. Children by the Caribbean Ocean. An arial picture of Haiti.

The Wright County Catholic Community Haiti Sister Parish Pray and Support Our Sister Parish Our Lady of the Assumption Anse Rouge, Haiti A Prayer for Our Brothers & Sisters in Haiti “The Harvest of justice is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace.”   Out of the depths we cry to You, O God. We cry to You for our Haitian sisters and brothers. We Thank you for upholding them in their suffering. Give them continuing strength and comfort. Give us love and courage to stand with them and work with then as they struggle for justice and freedom. Keep us committed to the truth and empower us with your Spirit of love: a love that always sees possibilities for peace founded on justice; a love that seeks justice without vengeance and retaliation: a love that reaches out to enemies, as Jesus taught us. We trust in your continuing mercy as we bring to You our own desire to be in active solidarity with our Haitian brothers and sisters.

Future medical team visit to our sister parish in Anse Rouge, Haiti will be possibly February 2010. If you are interested in participating, please call your representative of the Haiti Committee in your parish.

Map of Haiti

More information about Haiti, visit the Official website of the Embassy of the Republic of Haiti in Washington, D.C. Please look under the English version as this site is in French: Haiti