Goal achieved

Fr René Gaston

On the 18th of April 2024 an initiative was launched to raise some funds (7000€) to fulfil Fr. René Gaston last desire (see blogspot post of 18/04/2024). 

We are happy today to communicate that the goal of 7000€ has been reached. We will now begin the second phase of the project. The completion and the inauguration of the well are scheduled for the end of the month of August.

We wholeheartedly thank ARTJEANIUS for the precious help and all those who contributed for the collection. 

The total amount raised is 7001€. 

Donors: BL (1400€) ; EN (1000 USD) ; Jeanne XIA (200 SGD) ; Lorraine WONG (200 SGD) ; H.C (2600 USD) ; DOUBIK (150€) ; Joanne AW (200 SGD) ; ARTJEANIUS (1361 SGD) ; Benjamin KWOK CHIN POH (500 SGD) ; Lin LIANG (500 SGD) ; G. LA MALFA (200€).

For inquiries regarding donations, please write to ntsamaromeo@yahoo.fr  

Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks to ARTJEANIUS for the generous donation of 61 € for the well in Gaston's memory. 

Updated sum: 7001 €.

Sincere gratitude to ARTJEANIUS for the generous donation of 200 € for the well in Gaston's memory. 

Updated sum: 6940 €.

Blessed Pentecost

According to the Jewish tradition, 50 days (Pentecost) after Passover an agricultural festival was celebrated: the harvest festival or festival of weeks (Ex 23.16; 34.22; Dt 16.9-12). This festival marked the end of the harvest of the wheat. 
For us today, Pentecost is the celebration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples accompanied by Mary and by extension, on us who form the Church of today.

In Pentecost, we celebrate the fidelity and benevolence of Christ towards his disciples and towards us.

The Holy Spirit, if you will allow me an agricultural or culinary comparison, is like a fertilizer, a ferment or a yeast: he transforms, multiplies, makes fruit bear. The world is this great field of the Lord which continues to be sown by the Gospel of Christ. 

May the Holy Spirit, God's supreme fertilizer, continue to multiply our works of evangelization and charity and make them bear abundant fruit. 

Blessed Pentecost to all!!!

A Message of hope

Yesterday (15/05/2024) the Latin Patriarch His Beatitude Pierbattista PIZZABALLA visited our brothers and sisters of Gaza (https://www.lpj.org/en/news/press-release-of-the-latin-patriarchate-of-jerusalem-1).

We thank our Lord who made possible this encounter and comforted and encouraged our brothers and sisters through the ongoing tragedy.

Let us continue to accompany them with our prayers and our material assistance. 

Aid update

The preliminary survey for the digging of a well for the local community in the village of Bot-Makak (Cameroon), financed by ENG’s donation (see blogspot post of 24/12/2023) was successfully completed. The digging effort will take place in the first half of June.

Aid update

500 USD from EN's donation (see blogspot post of  04/04/2024) were successfully granted to the MC Sisters for the assistance of the poor.

 

Our prayer for the benefactors

Saturday 11/05/2024 a thanksgiving Mass was offered in the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre for the intentions of all our benefactors.

Thanksgiving

Sincere gratitude to G. La Malfa for the generous donation of 200 € for the well in Gaston's memory. 

Updated sum: 6740 €.