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Raffle Nov. 27 to Help Outreach to Haiti Efforts

Posted on November 12, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

Your support is needed now more than ever to help our brothers and sisters in Haiti with emergency food and nutritional supplements for malnourished children and expectant mothers, health care, education sponsorships, training, and start-ups for micro-businesses. Diocese of Norwich Outreach to Ha...

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A Fun and Fabulous Golf Tournament For Love of a Child

Posted on October 23, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

Sunday, September 13 was a grand and glorious day at the Wintonbury Golf Course in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Golfers playing in our annual For the Love of a Child tournament happily arrived looking forward to a day spent outdoors in the sun with good friends. Each player had their own golf cart...

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Haiti, Norwich, Catholic

Fishing Boats for Saintard, Haiti

Posted on October 09, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

“…Just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.” By Father Frank Rouleau, Chaplain and Twinning Director, Outreach to Haiti With the arrival of hurricane season, I was reminded of October four years ago when H...

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Love is the Greatest Treasure of All

Posted on September 18, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

One of my favorite scriptural quotations can be found in Matthew (6:19-21), “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal....

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Haiti, Norwich, Catholic

Ride for Haiti Stops at Cathedral of Saint Patrick

Posted on September 17, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

FCC News Desk A team of four bike riders taking part in the annual "Ride for Haiti" across Connecticut made a stop Thursday, September 17, at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Norwich. The team chatted with Bishop Michael R. Cote and stopped for pictures with Father Frank ...

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Haiti, Norwich, Catholic, schools

Outreach to Haiti: 'We Belong To Each Other…'

Posted on July 31, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

Haiti has seen more than its share of strife: earthquakes, hurricanes, epidemics, and violent civil unrest. In all my visits to Haiti I have never had a Haitian say to me, “Why us? What did we do to deserve this?” I believe this is due to Haitians having a deep reservoir of hope thanks t...

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Prayers From Haiti

Posted on June 23, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

As we deal with the pain, sorrow and fear from the coronavirus, one of our friends in Haiti, an artisan, sent the following sentiments to one of our board members. How are you doing these days? I was thinking about you. By the grace of God, we are fine in Croix-des-Bouquets. My only c...

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Sa ou plante se sa ou rèkolte (A Haitian Proverb): What you plant is what you harvest

Posted on May 14, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

For nearly 40 years the Diocese of Norwich has had a presence in Haiti, the poorest and most densely populated country in the Western Hemisphere. A series of pilgrimages by clergy, religious and lay people in the early 1980s profoundly impacted all who came to this little island country approxima...

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Outreach to Haiti: Easter Hope, Easter Joy

Posted on April 16, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

Recently, while I was celebrating Mass for the Missionaries of Charity in Port au Prince, Haiti, a four-year- old boy came up to me as I was listening to the First Reading being proclaimed. He pointed to the Crucifix on the wall above me. The Mass was celebrated in English. The child doesn’t s...

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Haiti, Norwich, Catholic

Outreach to Haiti: We Are Ambassadors for Christ

Posted on March 19, 2020 in: Outreach to Haiti

As we continue our Lenten journey together and individually, let us remember “We are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us.” (2 Corinthians 5:20). Our daily lives, especially during Lent, should reflect our faith in and love for God. These reflections can take the f...

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