Sent by God

Dear friends and benefactors,

We received this very nice letter:

Sent by God

Two children of God, humble, driven by their hearts and with great love for those in need, were sent by the Lord to rescue their brothers and sisters in Cuba.

Rev. Radu and his wife Stela have engraved in our hearts with great love for the poor, they have become instruments of God to rescue and give a helping hand to those who require aid and, through them, they send mercy and passion of our Lord to us.

Regardless of their age, regardless of their health, God has comforted them and like vultures as they flew from their distant Canada to bring us help. They know that God has supported them and renewed their strength in each of their four missionary journeys, and we hope to see them more often.

Always with a smile on their lips and with words that bring hope they provide us with a lot of love and they show us in practice the teaching that Christ gave us when he told us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. We give thanks to God and to all those whose donations make possible that the missionaries that we cherish can assist people of Cuba and especially those most disadvantaged.

Signed: Community of St. Francis de Paul in Havana, 9 June 2009.

Dear friends, this letter is a gift for us and shows us both that what we give to you grows the kingdom of God. Spread it on your own benefits. Be generous, help according to your means through our projects. Your reward will be multiplied a hundredfold.

In this summer, think of our neighbor. As you prepare your leisure and your vacation - well deserved - remember those who have no time to prepare a holiday because they can not take a vacation or give one to their family. How many children must work to help their family? How many? There would be only one, it would be one too many. Therefore please do not forget your neighbor. Make a generous donation to help feed him, clothe him, and treat him if he is sick, to console him if he is in pain. Our mission is there to receive your donations in order to transmit them to those who are suffering.

In this economic crisis, think of your neighbour. It is time to act, to Brotherly help others. Let us make a generous donation to help feed, clothe him, and treat him if he is sick, to console him if he is languishing in prison. Our mission is there to receive your donations in order to transmit relief to those who are more suffering than another.

Help right now by giving them a gift by calling 450-967-7792. Have your credit card with you.

We are all concerned about the difficulties of the brothers and sisters of the regions of the Caribbean (Mexico, Ecuador, Haiti), and also from Romanian country, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia...

Your gifts can create once again, more joy. An illustrated Gospel for children costs $5; the average salary is of $40 a month; a prayer book costs $5; a car costs $5,000 and people cannot pay it.

It is now the privileged moment for us to be ready to help, to bring the joy in the homes and the communities where faith is so low, after so long and so much suffering.

We send our gifts exclusively to the persons in charge of the communities that we know, to the families in suffering and in scarcity of everything, that distribute the gifts. More than a million youth await our gifts and our books. Help us to distribute good to them!

And pray for the success of our apostolate, for we need your prayers! In the expectation of your contribution that we hope will be generous, please receive the thanks of God that awaits your gifts.

Yours, in the service of our Lord,

S. Prodan, Director of the Mission
Rev. Radu Roscanu, Missionary

The Turkish yoke

The Turkish yoke destroyed the Byzantine Empire’s admirable libraries were reduced to ashes, innocent women and children were carted off to slavery, while Christian men were executed by the thousands in Palestine, North Africa and Asia Minor.

After the Muslims came to power, Orthodox Christians became second-class citizens under the Turkish oppression. Today, it’s time to act. You have to dig to the bottom of your pockets to help these Christians to survive in Constantinople and throughout the Christian East.

The Turkish state continually harassed the Ecumenical Patriarchate. We urge you to contact your representative et the Parliament to put pressure on Turkey so that it gives full rights and recognition to the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople.

Have your credit card handy and call 450-967-7792. Thank you on behalf of God.

June Message of the Director

Dear friends and benefactors,

The Lord compares the kingdom of God to a mustard seed, like leaven, a farmer and a hidden treasure in the earth. This suggests that the list of objects with which we can compare the kingdom of God is actually infinite.

We can therefore say that the kingdom of God is like this mission "Aid to the Martyr Churches", which made its entry onto the screen of your computer thru "http://brotherlyhelp.blogspot.com/". It gives you the fruit of the hard work of volunteers who carry out apostolic spirit in the countries of atrocious persecution, in groups or humiliated human where suffering is imposed, research, needs analysis, project assistance to the sick, the persecuted, the marginalized, for the elderly in danger...

The Kingdom of God is similar to anonymous men and women who create missions of aid for the development of ruined villages, for the development of national and religious heritages that were dilapidated, for helping printing and publishing books that can nurture moral to thirsty nations for the Word of God.

The Kingdom of God is within you, because thanks to you all this could happen, thanks to your prayers, through your gifts that you offer to our brothers and sisters here and elsewhere oppressed, suffering ill, to die by the wicked actions of the powerful and evil spirits that sometimes govern them.

To give is to grow the kingdom of God, to spread it with your own contributions. Be generous, help according to your means through our projects. Your reward will be multiplied a hundredfold.

My neighbour is also the one who makes me feel uncomfortable by the intensity of distress. «I was a stranger and you welcomed me,» «The Lord protects the stranger» ...

The theme of the alien is not in the Bible, in Psalms, in the Gospel. How many times «you shall love the alien» is in the Bible? Thirty-six times, and perhaps forty-six or fifty-six? Whatever, after all, because the key is there: to try every moment to invent the living relationship with our neighbour that he is no more to us "he who wants to deceive us" is not, our neighbour is a person beloved by God, rich in its history, its culture, its conscience, its faith, that we want to meet, know, act.

In this economic crisis, think of our neighbour. Let us make a generous donation to help feed, clothe him, and treat him if he is sick, to console him if he is languishing in prison. Our mission is there to receive your donations in order to transmit relief to those who are more suffering than another.

Help right now by giving them a gift by calling 450-967-7792. Have your credit card with you.

We are all concerned about the difficulties of the brothers and sisters of the regions of the Caribbean (Mexico, Ecuador, Haiti), and also from Romanian country, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia...

Your gifts can create once again, more joy. An illustrated Gospel for children costs $5; the average salary is of $40 a month; a prayer book costs $5; a car costs $5,000 and people cannot pay it.

It is now the privileged moment for us to be ready to help, to bring the joy in the homes and the communities where faith is so low, after so long and so much suffering.

We send our gifts exclusively to the persons in charge of the communities that we know, to the families in suffering and in scarcity of everything, that distribute the gifts. More than a million youth await our gifts and our books. Help us to distribute good to them!

And pray for the success of our apostolate, for we need your prayers! In the expectation of your contribution that we hope will be generous, please receive the thanks of God that awaits your gifts.

Yours, in the service of our Lord,
S. Prodan, Director of the Mission
Rev. Radu Roscanu, Missionary