http://kendeasy.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 05 May 2011 22:07:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Found it!   AGAIN Lent, with the" ashes-to ashes-dust-to-dust "was very real in our world.  Earthquakes and devastation in New Zealand and Japan, we well as the ongoing recognition that "here today and gone tomorrow"  can happen to anyone; powerful and the week. I just returned from my third trip to Haiti to ... http://kendeasy.com/2011/05/05/trip-3-to-haiti-hunting-for-the-hope/ December 6, 2010    Dear All,   ADVENT…when hope comes with simply belief that the “possibility” of a long-awaited promise (hope) can come true!   Imagine, being hit with years of corrupt government, depletion of natural resources, earthquakes, hurricanes, cholera, lack of education, lack of social services….lack of all those things WE actually feel entitled ... http://kendeasy.com/2010/12/06/an-experience-of-haiti-an-experience-of-why-we-hope/ Today…finally…I visited the Daughters of Wisdom.  They are a Haitian order of Sisters who HAD a huge school in the city which schooled over 600 teenage girls.  They have a tent-school in Port-au-Prince as well.  What once was a 400 student orphanage and school for the deaf was totally destroyed ... http://kendeasy.com/2010/08/18/day-3-paradise-in-hell-port-au-prince/ Up for 6:30 mass with Fr. Joe….77 years young…born and raised in Maine.  47 years here in Haiti. He’s seen governments tumbles one after the other; as well as the buildings.  Believe me, here at CAMP OMI (as they call it) there is off and on electricity; now and then ... http://kendeasy.com/2010/08/18/day-3-my-visit-to-the-peoplechurch-of-port-au-prince-haiti/ http://kendeasy.com/2010/08/15/a-different-view-not-from-the-pew/ Let's see........where did I leave off.  Ah yes........The parish garbage disposal was hard at work (left)Fr. Maart was there in his tent coordinating the reconstruction of the demolished school and rectory.     Because Catholic Relief Services was close by he was able to make that political connection which is how he got ... http://kendeasy.com/2010/08/15/day-2-pm-my-visit-with-the-peoplechurch-of-port-au-prince-haiti/ I am totally drained!  Day 2 was more amazing than day                 1 here in Haiti, Port au Prince and surrounding areas. Let me tell you right off the bat…I am totally humbled by the way these men and women in Haiti serve the poor AND live within the means of ... http://kendeasy.com/2010/08/15/day-2-my-visit-to-the-peoplechurch-of-port-au-prince-haiti/ day 1   7/20/10Haiti...I have arrived safe and in Port-au-prince this morning, Monday, 8:00 am.  Fr. Joe and Fr. John Pierre, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, picked me up which was great because I was the only Yankee Doodle standing around with Haitians cramped under a tree to protect us from the ... http://kendeasy.com/2010/08/14/fr-kens-reflections-on-his-4-day-visit-to-missionaries-in-port-au-prince-haiti/ Frankly, the reason a person should stay  within any Christian community is that they have experienced God  within it, from it and beyond it!  Yes, the infallible authority of the Church has seriously had it's priorities wrong for a long time.  It, seemingly, desperately feels the need to hang on (i.e., ... http://kendeasy.com/2010/04/17/with-the-clergy-abuse-scandal-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/ "When people discover their own capacity to give life and hope to others, then they want to give more.. . the power of love rises  up” -JEAN VANIER Have you ever wondered what religion really offers us in our busy, 24/7, twenty-first century world? Have you looked at our churches and ... http://kendeasy.com/2009/12/17/get-off-the-cross-someone-else-needs-the-wood-2/