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3/5/2010
Link: http://www.cardinalseansblog.org/2010/03/05/visiting-haiti-in-the-aftermath-of-the-earthquake/
Cardinal Seán's Blog
Visiting Haiti in the Aftermath of the Earthquake
On Monday morning, before flying to Haiti, I was able to visit the Agrupación Católica in Miami and to see my old friends Father Amando Llorente and Javier Suarez.
Father Llorente has been the director of the Agrupacion since 1952 when he first arrived in the United States.
I celebrated Mass with Father Amando and Javier, and afterwards I was able to get a quick tour of some of the new features of the retreat center.
Below you see a new monument for the Jesuit Martyrs of Florida. They call this the “Plaza de la Evangelizacion,” the Plaza of Evangelization. It’s in a beautiful location overlooking the water on the shore of Miami.
From there we went back to the airport to meet up with the delegation from the USCCB and fly to Port-au-Prince.
I was asked by the Bishops Conference to be a part of a committee to assess the needs of the Church in Haiti. The committee is working out of the secretariat for Latin America. This year, our chairman is Archbishop Gomez, and the committee consists of Archbishop Gomez, Bishop Sansaricq, the auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn who helped me to start the Haitian ministry in Washington, D.C. forty years ago; Bishop Tom Wenski of Orlando who ran the Haitian center in Miami for many years; Father Andrew Small who is director of the office; and myself.
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