Regina Bechtle, SC On the 'Charity' Response To Disasters
Barely a year ago, the world watched in horror as a thundering tsunami devastated the lives of millions in Southeast Asia. This year, a massive earthquake hit Pakistan and landslides buried villages in Guatemala. Closer to home, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita slammed into our nation’s Gulf Coast with staggering violence. We witnessed the breaking apart of families, neighborhoods, and cities, and the uprooting of a population on a scale unlike anything we have ever known within our own borders.
In their night prayers, Sisters of Charity have traditionally called on Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception for protection from “pestilence, fire and water, from lightning and tempest, from robbers, schisms, and heresies, from earthquakes and sudden death.” But whenever those disasters did strike, the Sisters were at the forefront of ministering to the victory.
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