Friends

Jesus said: “I shall not call you servants any more, because a servant does not know his master’s business; I call you friends,….” John 15: - 15. (JB)

If we are Christians, then it means that we are friends, one and all.

I want to thank the many friends of the poor who responded to our last posting to say that they found our messages useful.

As friends of the poor, I want to draw your attention to what, in my daily prayer, I call: ‘the ravages of natural disaster’. Peru has had a disastrous earthquake. Hurricane Dennis has ravaged St. Lucia, the southern coasts of the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica. At the time of this writing, it has made landfall in Central America and, as a category 5, is wreaking its havoc on the Yucatan Peninsula.

This ministry, as is our wont, will answer the calls for relief. We can only do so through the continued kindness of our donors, who are located mainly in the United States of America.

If ever we needed the help of all our friends, the time is now.

I am appealing to those deacons who have already made pilgrimage and have appealed, to consider whether they could not again do so at a parish where we have not yet been; and also to help to attract more participants from the various dioceses who have not yet been on pilgrimage.

To those deacons on our mailing list who are yet to take that ‘spiritual walk’ with us, this is a good time to speed up your process of discernment. I do look forward to hearing from you.

Blessings!

Please visit our website www.foodforthepoor.org to see the latest disaster reports from our people ‘in the field’.