Flores de Mayo in Tacloban

O come to the Throne of Grace... O come to the Heart most pure!
O pray for us, help us today... Thou hope of the human race...

Es bluht der Blumen eine auf ewig gruner Au...

What is an actual sin?  When is an offense a mortal sin?

Now I know that there are nine ways of being accessory to others' sins...

   

Swiss volunteers help out

With the help of Paulo de Veyra, a local nurse, the mission clinic continued.  Patients identified for surgery were called up and assisted at the local hospitals.  

On April 2, 2014, three volunteers from Switzerland came to help: Judith Kathriner, Claudia Schuwey and Katharina Schneeberger.   They immediately worked on organizing the pharmacy.   They cleaned, arranged and inventoried the medicines.  What a big improvement and a big help!  They had a shelf made to display medicines and they bought plastic boxes to replace the cartons that had been torn over the months.  They also translated the French labels into English.

Sorting... classifying...counting....  all the while enduring the heat. 

Looks more like a pharmacy now. 

Plastic boxes replaced the cartons for better storage and mobility.

Done!  More work, please!!!

Chapel Beautification 

Aside from teaching catechism to the children, they did their part in beautifying the chapel. 

  They framed and posted pictures of the Stations of the Cross.

Katharina also repaired the statues of Our Lady and the Blessed St.Joseph. She replaced broken fingers and applied new paint.

The Holy Family Chapel of Tacloban City

A visit to Calvary Hill of Tacloban...

In the Mission Field: Summer 2014

Braving the terrible heat in Gensan, we went to a village called "Uhaw",which literally means "Thirst" because it used to be an arid zone with no drinking water for miles around... until the poor homeless people habitated the land and brought water by gallons and carts and much later, by PVC pipes.

2013 December: Tacloban Mission Preparation

Christmas in Tacloban!

At the City Hall ... while darkness still reigns over the city

You know you've been too long in Tacloban when you feel your heart jumping with pure joy on seeing the light turn on and you read a simple advertisement of the photocopying shop!  You never know you love electricity until you lose it for more than a month... 

Yolanda Effect:  You cheer so very gladly when you see a restaurant light up and begin serving food!  Oh, for a bite of clean, hot food...  (Note:  When this picture was taken, this was the only restaurant that felt safe enough from the smelly streets of Tacloban). 

Fr. Hattrup greets the children after Holy Mass in Tacloban.

Silent night, holy night....

Good tidings of comfort and joy!
Gathered before the humble tent, survivors wait for Holy Mass to start.

2013 November

Supertyphoon Yolanda hit the Philippines on November 8, 2013.

Responding to the critical needs of the victims in Tacloban, we collected relief items and started the preparations for a medical mission.

2013 May - October

Thanks be to God and to the donor, we finally began the construction of the ACIM-Asia office together with the chapel of St. James in a donated lot in General Santos City.  Our lease on the old office ended, so we relocated our mission office near the construction site.

Our new mission address is now in Andrade Subdivision, Barangay San Isidro, General Santos City.  But for the patient's sake (accessibility), we receive our patients in St. James Chapel in Tiongson St., Lagao.

Happy Easter!

Seek Him not among the dead: He is risen 
as He said... Alleluia! 

There were three baptisms on Easter Eve.

A 16 year old patient received her first Communion.

 

In the tender compassion of our God

 the Dawn from on high shall break upon us

 to shine on those who dwell in darkness and in the shadow of death 

and to guide our feet into the way of peace....  

Thank you for your prayers and continued support to the mission!