This is our prayer as COVID 19 increases in Haiti over these weeks.
/Dear Family and Friends,
This is our prayer as COVID 19 increases in Haiti over these weeks.
Pope Francis called us to worldwide prayer on May 14.
We are a little late,
but God is always early to hear us.
"Even before a word is on my tongue, Lord, you have known it through and through!" (Ps 139:4)
We are in direct care of the COVID patients at St Luke Hospital-
so many more coming to us every day.
This is a prayer to the Holy Spirit for Haiti and for you,
and for the whole world,
It is composed of two blended hymns one spanning 11 centuries of plagues, pandemics and wars, and the second, a modern supplication in Haitian Creole.
Sung by high schools students of Nos Petits Freres et Soeurs, and Fondation St Luc programs.
It will be posted next week with video on stlukehaiti.org.
Maybe you will like this foretaste.
Forty one years ago today, when I was twenty five years old,
as we lay face down on the floor during our ordination to the priesthood,
the moving litany of the Saints and the powerful invocation of the Holy Spirit were sung over us.
I could never have imagined, as I lay on the floor, that these many years later, I would be a priest and physician, caring for victims of a terrible pandemic in such a broken country.
The calling to priesthood and religious life has been for me, and continues to be, a treasure. Join me in thanking God for such a privilege.
Fr Rick Frechette CP
May 17, 2020
First verse of latin song
Veni Creator Spiritus
Come Creator Spirit,
Mentes tuorum visita
Visit the souls of thy people,
Imple superna gratia
Fill with grace from on high
Quæ tu creasti pectora
The hearts, which thou hast created
Chorus of Creole song
Lespri Sen
Holy Spirit
Ou se limye lavi mwen
You are the light of my life
Ou se konsolasyon mwen
You are my consolation
Tanpri pa lage mwen (2 fwa)
Please do not forsake me (2 times)
First verse of Creole song
Sonje byen
Remember
Lem te batize
When i was baptized
Se ou ki te fem
You made me
Vinn pitit Bondye
Become a child of God
Lennmi m nan
My enemy
Ou menm ou konnen l
You know him
Mwen menm mwen santi
I also feel him
Li toujou deyem
He is always after me
Tanpri wa limen dife
Please kindle the fire
Lanmou anndan kem
Of love inside me
Poum kapab kenbe
To be able to withstand
Second verse of Creole song
Kowona
Coronavirus
Deja frape di
Already hits us hard
Kraze pou detwi
crushes and destroys
Tout pitit ou yo
your dear children
Souple ban nou tout sajes
Please give us the wisdom
Ban nou tout tandres
and give us the tenderness
Anve malad yo
that we need to care for the sick
Tanpri klere je nou yo
Please give us the clear vision
Pou nou ka konprann
and the good understanding
Kijan pou nou jwenn laviktwa
that we need to find salvation
Last verse of Creole song
Lord, we pray
For friends across the sea
In Spain and Italy
France and USA
We pray for friends in Germany
Friends we never see
May they all be healed
We pray bless them night and day
Bring them a new day
Of life and harmony
Last verse of the latin song
Deo Patri sit Gloria
To God the Father be glory,
Et Filio, qui a mortuis
To the Son who rose from the dead
Surrex-it, ac Paraclito
and to the Comforter,
In saeculorum saecula. Amen
for all ages. Amen
