Haiti
Subtitle: the God of tough places, the Lord of burnt men
By: Richard Frechette
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781412814201
Description: This volume presents the reflections of American medical doctor and Catholic priest Richard Frechette, concerning the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake that devastated the country of Haiti. He conveys his thoughts about what happens not just in Haiti, but in any place, at any time, to people of any race or class, who live out an assault on their human dignity. he feels that whenever the dignity of human beings is marred, the human spirit finds itself in threatened conditions, and seeks desperately to preserve what is human about it. He writes how the human spirit finds light and hope in the most despairing darkness.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: The God of tough places; title: The Lord of burnt men; title: The transfiguration of Barnabas; title: A tale of two tragedies; title: On the end of the world (and other chances to renew the face of the earth); title: The tiny mustard seed and the ferocious gates of hell; title: The deceased Pope and the Risen Christ; title: The children of Cain ... and other "all souls" to be; title: Jonah under the withered tree; title: The presentation of the Lord and the art of un-kidnapping (a celebration of light); title: Good Fridays, bad choices : voodoo and the passion of Christ; title: To eulogize a saint : the life and death of Fr. William Bryce Wasson; title: Keeping Sabbath; title: The thirteenth day of Christmas; title: Crown of thorns; title: Last Supper in the shadows; title: Fr. Bill Wasson remembered, for forever and a day; title: Assumption into earth (on the burial of hundreds of destitute dead); title: St. Nicholas and the antichrist; title: The land of milk and honey.