Fr. Rick Frechette, CP, at Mass with children in Haiti.
Please join us and your fellow retreatants in prayer for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.
People have asked us how the Passionists are involved in relief efforts there. Passionist Father Rick Frechette, a physician to impoverished children in Haiti for 22 years, left his dying mother’s side to return to his pediatric hospital in Haiti to engage in relief efforts.
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Fr. Rick has provided an update for us:
“We had 18 funerals today. One for John who works at our St Luke program… the death of our Wilfrid Altisme who was in his 5th year of seminary for priesthood. Other stories of deaths of people who are dear to us keep coming in. The search still continues in the rubble for a missing American volunteer, Molly…
We spent the rest of the time managing the countless people with serious and severe wounds, coming to our hospital. We are doing our best for them, under trees and in the parking lot with ever diminishing supplies. We will work throughout the night and beyond. No stores are open, no banks are open. Will be out of diesel two days if we don’t find a solution, which will mean no power at all. The hospital is without water since there is some broken line between the well and the water tower.
For more from Fr. Rick in Haiti, click here.
