One Year Later

Today, a quarter of a million people died. The foundations of the city of Port Au Prince and the surrounding towns and villages trembled as the magnitude seven quake violently shook the ground beneath them as people fled to the safest place they could. Over the next few weeks, more than fifty aftershocks hit the decimated cities of Western Haiti.

Although immense amounts of aid has been provided, the carnage continues as Cholera, malnutrition, and exposure continue to assault this already impoverished nation. A nation teetering on the edge of Anarchy fosters more misery as women are subject to increased incidents of sexual assault. Fr the most part, things have not gotten better.

What has been done has not been enough, yet the Church seems hesitant to do more. Have we forgotten the injunctions of our Lord, and of his brother James that what we do unto the least of these, we do also to our Lord? that if we know that good that we ought to do and do not do it, that we are sinning?

Oh Lord, use my heart, and my hands to alleviate what suffering I can, to preach and speak the Gospel to a people seemingly broken beyond repair.

Amen.

Famine, Rape, and Cholera

This just in this morning from MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40930866/ns/health/

In the midst of near anarchy, the specter of rape has arisen to torment an already desperate people. There are so many problems in Haiti that one cannot imagine the situation ever improving, but there is hope.

Let us continue to carry both bread, and the Bread of Life to these suffering people.