Most Reverend Joseph A. Galante, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Camden, will celebrate Mass with the Haitian Catholic Community of Atlantic City:
Sunday, January 17, 2010
9:15 AM
St. Monica Church
108 North Pennsylvania Avenue
Atlantic City, NJ 08401-4714
Joining Bishop will be Haitian priests serving in the diocese: Father Aland Jean, Father Yvans Jazon, and Father Rico Ducle. The Mass will be celebrated in Creole.
Bishop Galante also has called on all parishes of the diocese to take up a special collection during the weekend of January 16-17, 2010 to provide emergency relief to the regions affected by Tuesday’s earthquake, which has devastated the island country of Haiti.
The monies collected will be used to support the efforts of Catholic Relief Services, the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic Church, as it responds to immediate emergency needs for such necessities as water, food, shelter and medical care, as well as to the long term need to rebuild after widespread destruction, and to the pastoral and reconstruction needs of the Church in Haiti.
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The parishes of diocese are home to 500,000 Catholics in the six southern counties of South Jersey: Camden, Cape May, Gloucester, Salem, Atlantic, and Cumberland. Catholic Relief Services of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops works in solidarity with the poor in more than 90 countries and territories. CRS acts with local communities and partners to respond to natural and humanitarian disasters and to address the root causes of poverty through long-term sustainable development projects. (see www.crs.org for more information)