More than 250,000 people died 8 years ago today in the terrible earthquake which devastated the island nation of Haiti in 2010. How does a poor country ever recover? Here is a desperate young mother holding her little child in the rubble.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the patronness of Haiti. In her icon the Mother of God also holds her Infant Child who looks up into the sky where angels hold the instruments of his future suffering and death. He flees to his mother and his shoe falls off. She looks at us. She knows. We pray:
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is the patronness of Haiti. In her icon the Mother of God also holds her Infant Child who looks up into the sky where angels hold the instruments of his future suffering and death. He flees to his mother and his shoe falls off. She looks at us. She knows. We pray:
O Lady,
that or hearts would be opened,
that our hearts would be softened,
that we would know real compassion.
O Lady,
may we disparage no one,
may we love people into health and safety,
may we be other-referred.
O Lady,
may we be real pro-life people in the widest sense,
may we realize that while we can't do everything, we can do something,
may we never be de-sensitized to the littlest and the poorest.
O Lady,
that we would take nothing for granted,
that we would never look away,
that we would recognize the dignity of each human person.
