June 27 brings back the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, patron saint of Haiti. In this circumstance, the fprmer Consul General of Haiti in Chicago Lesly Condé (August 26, 2004 - May 25, 2018) delivered a message that we invite you to share.

Message from Lesly Condé :

"Distinguished compatriots from all over,

Dear friends of Haiti,

As every year, our entire Nation bows before Our Lady of Perpetual Help to ask HER to protect us and guide us in this world where individualism tends to become a norm which threatens the existence of the less powerful. This year, I especially invite you to thank the Patron Saint of Haiti for the many graces she has granted us despite our setbacks and especially despite our iniquities.

We live, in fact, in a world where cooperation between humans exists only in the greatest distrust because the interests of some do not necessarily coincide with those of others. The protection of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is essential to us in this pseudo-civilized world where man is a wolf for man.

Our country has overcome several hardships thanks to the protection of Notre-Dame du Perpétuel Secours. Despite our many misfortunes, we have reason to be grateful and to hope. Today more than ever, as our Nation faces the challenges of the 21st century, we must redouble our fervor in our prayers to Our Lady of Perpetual Help to ask her to protect Haiti from this pandemic which is leaving its mark everywhere.

We are always speaking with confidence to Our Lady of Perpetual Help because she is the patron saint of our country, and that she has never abandoned us.

Thank you for your attention !

Lesly Condé."

Recall that the title of Our Lady of Perpetual was given to the Virgin Mary from a very old "miraculous" icon. Haiti was consecrated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help on December 8, 1942 by Mgr. Le Gouaze, Archbishop of Port-au-Prince.

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