'We Are Working Against the Clock': World Rushes Aid to Shattered Haiti

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January 14, 2010 

(Mat 25:37-40) Then shall the just answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry and fed thee: thirsty and gave thee drink? Or when did we see thee a stranger and took thee in? Or naked and covered thee? Or when did we see thee sick or in prison and came to thee? And the king answering shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me.

HEADLINE: Pope activates world Catholic charities for Haiti

Pope Benedict on Wednesday ordered that the Roman Catholic Church's extensive worldwide charity network be immediately activated to help the victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Speaking at his weekly general audience, the pope also appealed to the international community and individuals to be quick and generous in their aid.

"The Catholic Church will immediately activate (its aid) through its charity institutions in order to respond to the most urgent needs of the population," he said.

A major earthquake struck the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday, flattening buildings and burying hundreds, possibly thousands, of people under the rubble, witnesses said.

The Catholic Church has one of the world's largest and most capillary charity networks.

"I appeal to everyone's generosity, so that these brothers and sisters of ours who are living through a time of need and pain receive our concrete solidarity and the effective help of the international community," he said.

MORE: Archbishop of Port-Au-Prince Dies in Haiti Quake

A recent article in Haiti’s Le Matin newspaper has quoted 65 year old geologist and former professor at the Geological Institute of Havana, Patrick Charles, as stating that “conditions are ripe for major seismic activity in Port-au-Prince. The inhabitants of the Haitian capital need to prepare themselves for an event which will inevitably occur...” According to him, the danger is imminent. He ads “Thank God that science has provided instruments that help predict these types of events and show how we have arrived at these conclusions.”

From www.haitixchange.com/

RESPONSE: 'We Are Working Against the Clock': World Rushes Aid to Shattered Haiti

BLOG: Catholic Relief Service workers in the field are reporting unprecedented devastation in Haiti's capital city Port-au-Prince following yesterday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Karel Zelenka, CRS's country representative for Haiti told CRS spokesperson John Rivera the devastation is unlike anything he's ever seen. "I've been in  earthquakes before," Zelenka told Rivera. "This was a major earthquake and a direct hit [on the capital]. There must be thousands dead."

LINK TO DONATE TO CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICE: https://secure.crs.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3181&3181.donation=form1

Ladder of Divine Ascent excerpt: Step 25- "On the destroyer of the pasions, most sublime humility"

29. He who has come to know himself by discerning each feeling of his soul has sown on earth; but those who have not thus sown cannot expect humility to blossom forth.   

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