Steve Franzken | Missionaries of the Poor

Sin and Forgiveness

From the Founder’s Desk My dear Brothers & Sisters, Blessings! Thank God for Easter! Thank God He has risen from the dead! Thank God that He has called us to communion with His crucified, then Risen body. Yes, all will be well though we are made of clay, weak…

Springtime of Life

By: Lauren Codner, Boston MA, USA The faith of the Brothers and the residents is contagious. As an aspiring nurse, learning how to dress wounds and working in the pharmacy with Brother Joey at Faith Center or Pat teaching me how to properly dress, feed and clean the children were…

A Unique Easter Experience

By: Cheryl Codner, Boston MA, USA This year, my daughter Lauren and I spent Easter week at the Missionaries of the Poor in Kingston, Jamaica. On our first day, we were welcomed by an Easter Vigil Mass which was unlike any other mass we have ever attended. The Mass opened…

Haiti Hurricane Relief Efforts

Viloux, Les Cayes, Haiti. Tuesday, October 18, 2016, Sr. Marie, a finally professed member of Compassionate Franciscan Sisters of the Poor in Viloux, a village in the south, 96 miles from our mission in Port-au-Prince, and an hour away from the town of Les Cayes, gave us the assurance that roads…

HAITI NEEDS OUR HELP!

HAITI NEEDS OUR HELP! By: Br. Rodel Tabanao, MOP, Mission Superior, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Hurricane Matthew, reported as the strongest hurricane to hit Haiti in a decade landed and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. Haiti, a country on the road to recovery from the massive earthquake in 2010…

Fr. Richard Ho Lung received The 2016 Nelson Mandela Human Rights Achievement Sunshine Award

New Jersey, October 3, 2016. The SUNSHINE Awards Organization announced in New Jersey that Father Richard Ho Lung has been nominated and will receive the 2016 Nelson Mandela Human Rights Achievement SUNSHINE Award for his unselfish commitment to humanity and human development. This inaugural presentation will be made at the…