PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - On Sunday, December 13, 2024, at the Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort Parish in Delmas, the diaconal ordination of two Montfort brothers and one Spiritan took place: Brothers Max Alfred Stanley MONTFORT, Cyril Saint Jean, and Vilner MORTUMAT. This ordination was celebrated by Monsignor Wismick JEAN-CHARLES, SMM, ....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – On Sunday, September 8, 2024, the Montfortian family in Haiti celebrated with great joy the First vows, Perpetual profession and jubilees of brothers and sisters...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - On Saturday, August 3, 2024, the episcopal ordination of a Montfortian confrere from the Province of Haiti, Bishop Wismick JEAN-CHARLES, SMM and Bishop Jean-Pierre Sander LOUIS JEAN, both appointed auxiliary bishops of the said Archdiocese on May 31, 2024 by Pope Francis, took place at the Parish of Saint Pierre de Pétion Ville, Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince. Bishop Wismick JEAN-CHARLES, because of his career and his various responsibilities, is very well known both nationally and internationally, both within the Montfortian family and the universal Church. This is one of the reasons why this grandiose event was experienced as a community, ecclesial and national event...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The growing insecurity which affects all sectors of the country and causes massive population displacements also has a great impact on the proper functioning of the scholasticate of the Montfort Missionaries in Haiti. Many areas in Port-au-Prince are declared lawless zones or lost territories where thousands of men, women, and children forcibly left their homes to escape violence and looting. The cul-de-sac plain in particular “Bon repos” where the scholasticate is located is one of them. It became an area which is difficult to access and depopulated due to clashes between armed groups. This situation led to internal migration where people fled their neighborhoods to places that are more peaceful and secure. The Montfortian Scholasticate was not spared...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - At the invitation of the Montfort Province of Haiti, under the aegis of the Apostolic Nuncio, His Excellency Monsignor Francisco Escalante MOLINA, took place at “Saint Louis Roi de France” Parish in Port-au-Prince – after the Eucharistic celebration of 10:00 a.m. - the inauguration of the new buildings of the Center for Evangelization, Spirituality and Mental Health (CESSA),....
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - If Hope dies, could it be reborn? In Haiti, there are many reasons that tend to make any shred of hope disappear because of the country's situation. However, God, Master of history, never ceases to raise glimmers of hope in the very heart of these human events, so that in the night of this world which fears risk and the definitive, the light of his Kingdom and its Justice...
HAITI - The vocation to the religious life is becoming increasingly rare in our world today. The young people, preoccupied with the questions of survival in a society in constant turmoil and the resulting doubts, are afraid to engage in this way of life based essentially on faith and trust in the Lord. But all is not over. The Spirit still blows and manages to touch hearts to prepare them and send them into the vineyard of the Lord...
ORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, so pray to the Lord of the harvest to send workers into his harvest" (Mt 9, 37-38). These words of Christ are topical and still resonate today within the Church. In a world where the truth is more and more fearful, where some people tend to flee or make the Church flee, the bearer of the truth, the Spirit of truth is at work...