Help for Suffering Haiti
Interrupting my blogging hiatus for an urgent message: about Haiti where the suffering has been tremendous since Tuesday’s earthquake.
I just spoke to Ray Seabeck who runs the Missionary Servants of John Paul I (who I wrote about here). They work directly with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Haiti.
I have had a hard time contacting him, since his phone has been ringing off the hook constantly. But I did finally talk to him, and he said they have heard very little from inside Haiti. But they have learned that two of the convents of Mother Teresa’s sisters have been destroyed, and a third had to be evacuated because it was threatening to collapse. Nothing seems to be known about the six other convents, or how many sisters have been injured or killed. They are certainly desperately in need of help.
The Missionary Servants collect money, clothes, books, other supplies and Mass items regularly for the people of Haiti. Right now they are waiting to find out what is most needed and where it should be sent. But they especially want to get help right now to Mother Teresa’s sisters.
No doubt they will get help from other organizations, but Ray suggests that if you want to directly help Mother Teresa’s sisters with their relief work as well as caring for their own, you can make out a check to the Missionaries of Charity and send it Ray, and they will see that the sisters in Miami get it, so they can have the funds to provide what is most needed.
Ray and Lauretta Seabeck
The Missionary Servants of John Paul I
22 Boyd Hill Rd.
Gilford, NH 03249
They do so much good and are so desperately in need. Please keep them in your hearts and in your prayers. (I’ve already donated).
Update: Saturday, January 16.
If you want to help Mother Teresa’s sisters directly, you can also contact their regional offices in Miami:
Missionaries of Charity
727 N.W. 17th Street
Miami, FL 33136
USA
Tel.: 1-305-545-5699
Also the Holy Father has asked Catholic Relief Services to coordinate all the Catholic aid given in the crisis. You can find out more and donate to them here.
Archbishop Dolan of New York, who is also chairman of Catholic Relief Services, makes a plea for help here:
