Thursday, January 14, 2010

HELP FOR HAITI

Catholic News Services reports that the following international aid agencies are working with partner agencies and local religious leaders in Haiti and are accepting donations for victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops' international relief and development agency, is accepting donations by phone at (800) 736-3467; online at http://www.crs.org/; or by mail to CRS, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203-7090.

The Salesians are accepting donations by phone at (914) 633-8344; online at http://www.salesianmissions.org/; or by mail to Salesian Disaster Relief, Salesian Missions, P.O. Box 30, New Rochelle, NY 10802-0030.

The Archdiocese of Miami, which has a large Haitian population, has set up a place to donate online at http://www.newmiamiarch.org/. (This link isn't working as of 5am today, but perhaps later today it will.)

Caritas Internationalis is accepting donations for Haiti at http://www.caritas.org/.

Food for the Poor is also accepting donations at http://www.foodforthepoor.org/.

Catholic Medical Mission Board is accepting monetary donations by mail to CMMB, 10 West 17th St., New York, New York 10011; by phone at (800) 678-5659; or online at http://support.cmmb.org/Haiti. Medicines and medical supplies may be donated by calling CMMB's Kathy Tebbett at (212) 242 7757.

Jesuit Refugee Service is accepting donations at http://www.jrsusa.org/; click on "Donate Now" box on right of page.

Lord my God, I call for help by day;
I cry at night before you.
Let my prayer come into your presence.
O turn your ear to my cry.
For my soul is filled with evils;
my life is on the brink of the grave.
I am reckoned as one in the tomb;
I have reached the end of my strength,
like one among among the dead;
like the slain lying in their graves;
like those you remember no more,
cut off, as they are, from your hand.
~from Psalm 87

Dear God, Father of the Poor, have mercy on our brothers and sisters in Haiti who are suffering such devastation and desolation. Please help them! Help those who are helping them, and help us to help them all in whatever ways we can. We ask this in the name of Jesus our Lord, who alone can make all things new. Amen.

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