On Saturday, March 19, the feast of St. Joseph, we were invited for a Mass of Thanksgiving with our Mercedarian Sisters for their previous General Administration. We along with the Sisters of Notre Dame of the Annunciation were the invited guests with their volunteers for the Mass. it was a beautiful celebration.
On Tuesday, March 22, children from our last two Communion classes were invited for our annual Lenten Reconciliation Service. Thirty children were present for the celebration. Before the service began, Sr. Inga invited them to think of one person with whom they wanted to share God’s mercy and for whom they would pray. On a piece of paper, each child wrote the name of someone, and these were placed in a basket at the foot of the image of Divine Mercy. We offered this time of mercy and peace for an end to the war in Ukraine and for healing for Haiti.
Sr. Marilyn introduces the Divine Mercy Chaplet
On Friday, March 18, the Mother Angela Clinic team celebrated their 8th anniversary. However, the dream and planning actually began 9 years ago with the help of SM Giovanni Monge, who at the time was President of Angela Hospice. With her guidance and our faith that this could happen, eight years later we celebrate with joy all that the clinic has done and continues to do in the Diocese of Jacmel. With the help of many benefactors, especially Marybeth and Gavin O’Connor, we now visit 28 chapels in places where people are in most need of health care.
Fr. Bertrand, director of Caritas for the Diocese of Jacmel celebrated the Mass. After Mass everyone enjoyed a PowerPoint, created by Sisters Izzy and Marilyn, that took us through the years of remembering. Sisters Inga and Julitta made delicious cakes and quiche that all enjoyed after the Mass!
We have a tradition in the Felician Haiti Mission that during Lent we make our own Way of the Cross on our holy ground. This year, the kids made their own Stations of the Cross. On Friday, March 18, at 3 p.m. our journey began. We prayed for peace in the world, starting in ourselves, healing in Haiti, and for an end to the war in Ukraine.
Children in Thursday’s Faith Formation group are younger but ever so willing and ready to create their own Stations of the Cross!
You may remember that Sisters Izzy and Julitta, together with Rosemarie, participated in Sr. Ann Therese Kelly’s webinar last Saturday. They came up with the idea that our groups for faith formation should create their own stations. On Wednesday and Thursday, we worked to get them ready for Friday. The kids, with the help of our teens, worked together, praying while doing the 14 Stations of the Cross that would be used for our Stations on Friday.
Sisters Izzy and Julitta takes some of their first group of students and bring them to the second level of learning sewing techniques.
Every Tuesday, we meet with our youth and young adults for faith sharing and other activities. We have been sharing topics on Christology. During Lent, we are showing the famous film, JESUS OF NAZARETH.
On Saturday, March 12, our Sr. Ann Therese Kelly hosted a fun community art project focused on the Earth, using materials that would end up in a landfill. All was done on zoom! She works in Buffalo, NY.
Our Sisters Izzy and Julitta, and Rosemarie, our artist, joined in the experience here in Jacmel, Haiti! One of our young boys stopped by and joined in the fun. When finished, our group had made a beautiful image of Haiti, using materials that would end up in a landfill!
