Dear friends As you see from the news, to say that times are tough in Haiti would be a gross understatement.   If you are able, we really need your help. We literally never know what is going to happen each day. There is no government, gang violence is the rule of the day. We only know the effects: kidnapped, battered, terrorized, hungry and homeless people in ever growing numbers.   Even with these multiplied emergencies, the St Luc hospital and her many clinics remain open, our schools are timidly functioning, and  teachers are staying connected to their students ..read more

Dear friends We thank you for your January support for refugees! Thanks to you we were able to send food for hundreds more refugee families in Tabarre, Catalpa and Delmas 4. We will keep helping our neighbors in distress! You don't see me in the top left picture above, because I took it! Myself, Miguel and Edson trying to encourage Miguelson to keep studying hard even though things are difficult. You may think from news about Haiti that it is nearly impossible to achieve anything here. But what would be really tragic would be for children and youth to believe life is a dead end. Things ..read more

We’re proud to have published our 2023 annual report for Fondation St. Luc Haiti. As you know, the St. Luke Foundation (USA) is a fundraising arm for Fondation St. Luc, with donated monies going directly to these programs. In the midst of everything, the teams have done some phenomenal work that we’re showcasing below! Annual Report ..read more

Just having celebrated Christmas, we remember how the season of joy and wonder also memorializes an abhorrent massacre of babies in Bethlehem, and how the family of Jesus had to flee as refugees.  Massacres, the bondage of slavery, and refugees all across the globe have added a somber tone to our new year celebrations. The UN reports on their website that “more than 110 million individuals have been forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations. We are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record.” Haiti is no exc ..read more

Dear Family and Friends, Advent, robed in purple, holds up before us the heaviness of pain. Advent, robed in rose, holds up before us the yearning for Eternal Peace.  Purple is the heavy darkness of life under gang rule in Haiti. Rose lights up the small victories over gang rule, like making it through another day, or freeing someone vulnerable from humiliating bondage. Purple dominated last week's celebrations of the "Day of Disabled Persons", when I was summoned by a notorious gang leader to meet him in the scrublands for "something urgent."  I imagined some stressful scenario ..read more

Dear family and friends, As I write these words, the violent rule of gangs in Port au Prince in increasing, and reaching our neighborhood, which is also the neighborhood of US Embassy. The Embassy is, during these very days, evacuating all non-emergency personnel. The effect on us is that our hospital now receives many warlike trauma and gunshot injuries, especially since the specialty hospital nearby that was managing them closed, precisely because of armed attack on their hospital. We cannot get surgeons to come to our area. It is a red zone. And like many hospitals in Port au Prince, w ..read more

“You are not here to find love, nor to be greeted by happiness at every turn, nor to be showered with kindness, nor to be appreciated by all, nor to forever remain a child. You came here to create love out of war, by God’s grace. Your soul eternal soul was created and placed into a stifling frame of bone, blood and flesh. Only here can inner strength be forged by pain, can wisdom be nurtured by failure, can love be the reward of those who choose to give love. Your soul struggles with the bitter things of life to know the sweetness of inner joy. There is no river of love that runs as deep as th ..read more

Novena night nine will be tomorrow, the day of Raphaels funeral. Enjoy this video clip put together by Raphael’s team, who have lived and worked together with Raphael like brothers ..read more

Meditation on Life click to listen Forever Young  Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while Heaven can wait, we're only watching the skies Hoping for the best but expecting the worst Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? Let us die young or let us live forever We don't have the power but we never say never Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip The music's for the sad men Can you imagine when this race is won Turn our golden faces into the sun Praising our leaders, we're getting in tune The music's played by the, the mad man Forever young I want to be forever young Do you reall ..read more

Evening Prayer for Raphael Song for reflection, please click Sometimes a Prayer Will Do God, come to my assistance. — Lord, make haste to help me. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: — as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen. Alleluia. PSALMODY Ant. 1 The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will guard your soul. Psalm 121 I lift up my eyes to the mountains: from where shall come my help? My help shall come from the Lord who made heaven and earth. Ant. The Lord will keep you from all evil. He will guard your soul. May he never allow you to stumbl ..read more